José María Castellano

Last updated April 12, 2019

José María Castellano is a Spanish businessman, born in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain in 1947.^[1]

Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain, is a country mostly located in Europe. Its continental European territory is situated on the Iberian Peninsula. Its territory also includes two archipelagoes: the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa, and the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. The African enclaves of Ceuta, Melilla, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera make Spain the only European country to have a physical border with an African country (Morocco). Several small islands in the Alboran Sea are also part of Spanish territory. The country's mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar; to the north and northeast by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean.

A Coruña is a city and municipality of Galicia, Spain. It is the second most populated city in the autonomous community and seventeenth overall in the country. The city is the provincial capital of the province of the same name, having also served as political capital of the Kingdom of Galicia from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and as a regional administrative centre between 1833 and 1982, before being replaced by Santiago de Compostela.

Galicia is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law. Located in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula, it comprises the provinces of A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense and Pontevedra, being bordered by Portugal to the south, the Spanish autonomous communities of Castile and León and Asturias to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the Cantabrian Sea to the north. It had a population of 2,718,525 in 2016 and has a total area of 29,574 km² (11,419 sq mi). Galicia has over 1,660 km (1,030 mi) of coastline, including its offshore islands and islets, among them Cíes Islands, Ons, Sálvora, Cortegada, and—the largest and most populated—A Illa de Arousa.

Castellano is the former CEO and Deputy Chairman of the Inditex Group, which is one of the largest fashion groups in the world and includes brand stores such as Zara, Massimo Dutti, and Bershka. He also takes part into the strategy of N.M. Rothschild as a senior advisor.

Massimo Dutti is a clothes manufacturing company that is part of the Inditex group. When founded in 1985, its product range was limited to men's clothing, with a women's range added in 1995. Despite the Italian name, it is a wholly Owned Spanish company. The company employs over 4,000 people internationally. In 2003, the company launched a children's line under the trade name Massimo Dutti Boys and Girls. "Massimo Dutti" is not a fashion designer, nor a real person, but a trademark.

Bershka is a clothing retailer company. It is part of the Spanish Inditex group.

N M Rothschild & Sons Limited is a British multinational investment banking company controlled by the Rothschild family. It was founded in the City of London in 1811 and now serves as the British division of Rothschild & Co, a firm with 57 offices around the world. It is the seventh oldest bank in continuous operation in the United Kingdom.

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References

↑ HERNÁNDEZ, S. (24 September 2005). "José María Castellano dimite de la vicepresidencia de Inditex" (in Spanish). elpais.com. Retrieved 2009-10-26.

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[1] HERNÁNDEZ, S. (24 September 2005). "José María Castellano dimite de la vicepresidencia de Inditex" (in Spanish). elpais.com. Retrieved 2009-10-26.