Inditex
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The Inditex Group (Spanish: Industrias de Diseño Textil Sociedad Anónima) is a large Spanish corporation and one of the world largest fashion groups. It is made up of almost a hundred companies dealing with activities related to textile design, production and distribution. Amancio Ortega Gaona is the founder and current chairman of Inditex. He is also Spain's richest man.
Inditex runs over 2010 stores worldwide owns brands like Zara, Massimo Dutti, Lefties, Bershka, Oysho, Pull & Bear, Zara Home and Stradivarius. Most stores are corporate-owned since franchises are only conceded in areas where corporate properties can not be bought (as in the Middle East).
The group designs and manufactures almost everything by itself, and new designs are dispatched twice a week to Zara stores.
History
The first Zara shop opened its doors in 1975 in La Coruña (Spain), the city which saw the Group's early beginnings and which is now home to its central offices. Today Inditex's shops can be seen in places like New York's Fifth Avenue, Paris' Champs Elysées, London's Regent Street or Tokyo's Shibuya Shopping Centre.
External links
- Inditex official webpage (http://www.inditex.com/)
- Contact details for Inditex and Zara are listed at Yellowikis/Zara (http://www.yellowikis.org/wiki/index.php/Zara)