A giant Zara Barcelona flagship store has opened its doors at Number 5, Plaça de Catalunya, Barcelona’s tourist and commercial epicentre. Zara describes the store as one of its “most emblematic”, housed in a 1930s property which has been fully refurbished and…
Spanish lingerie brand Oysho, owned by Inditex, continues its international expansion with the opening of its first store in Indonesia. In Jakarta’s centre, the 300 sqm shop is in Plaza Indonesia, a shopping centre that is also home to other Inditex brands…
Spain’s fashion retail giant Inditex, owner of popular brand Zara, on Wednesday posted an eight-percent rise in first-half profits thanks to a surge in clothes sales around the globe. One of the world’s largest fashion retailers said profit for the six months…
Covering 2400 sqm over two levels, the first Zara Vietnam flagship store has opened at Vincom Centerin Ho Chi Minh City. Customers have views of the main street, Dong Khoi, from its windows, while on the racks are collections including women’s and men’s…
Mobile payment is coming to stores belonging to fashion retailer Inditex Group in September, chairman and executive Pablo Isla announced recently during the company’s annual general meeting. Inditex has eight brands and more than 7,000 stores throughout the…
Zara Vietnam says it will open its first store in July, just as Euromonitor International reveals the Vietnamese branded goods market may reach $2.7 billion in value by next year. As more than more people can afford branded goods, international fashion brands…
Hennes & Mauritz, the world’s second-largest apparel retailer, has reported a four per cent rise in sales in November. H&M says the increase was lower than expected due to unusually mild weather in the northern hemisphere, which lessened customer demand for…
As Spanish apparel giant Inditex continues its global expansion in earnest, the Inditex Asia business is accounting for a major share of the action. Inditex is committed to both multi-brand and multi-channel strategies as it builds it global dominance of the…
Intidex, the parent company of fast fashion chain Zara, has revealed a sales increase of 16% year-on-year to 14.74bn (£10.6bn) over the first nine months of its financial year. Despite a dip in the economy, the Spanish group has said that it remains…
Lobby group the Clean Clothes Campaign aims to shame the world’s large fashion brands into supporting a Cambodian minimum wage rise. The CCC says it is lobbying on behalf of a coalition of Cambodian unions that the multinational brands must ensure a minimum…
Inditex has launched another of its brands in China online. The Spanish apparel maker has opened a Stradivarius China storefront on Tmall, the largest online sale platform in China. After launching in China in 2010, the junior cousin of Zara has built a…
Inditex Group-owned youth fashion brand Pull&Bear opened its new two-storey East Nanjing Rd flagship this week. Pull&Bear features in 70 markets worldwide with a network of over 900 stores. The new Shanghai store is the first in the city to present the…
Same store sales and group profit both increased by five per cent at Spanish apparel giant Inditex in 2014. In financial statements just released, Inditex said its key same store sales growth indicator stands at 23 per cent over the past five years. Net…
Spanish fashion giant Inditex has announced a complete and permanent ban on the use of angora wool across all its brands. The ban follows discussions with animal rights group PETA US and a media expose of the cruel practice where live rabbits’ fur is ripped…