El Corte Inglés S.A., headquartered in Madrid, is the biggest department store group in Europe and ranks third worldwide. Its primary source of sales is from department stores, followed by internet sales. It is a family business, with most stock held by relatives of the deceased businessmen Ramon Areces Rodriguez and César Rodríguez González (1882–1966), and the Ramon Areces foundation.
Industria de Diseño Textil, S.A. is a Spanish multinational clothing company headquartered in Arteixo, Galicia, Spain. Inditex, the biggest fast fashion group in the world, operates over 7,200 stores in 93 markets worldwide. The company's flagship brand is Zara, but it also owns a number of other brands including Zara Home, Bershka, Massimo Dutti, Oysho, Pull&Bear, Stradivarius, Uterqüe and Lefties. The majority of its stores are corporate-owned, while franchises are mainly conceded in countries where corporate properties cannot be foreign-owned.
Zara is a fashion retail subsidiary of the Spanish multinational fashion design, manufacturing, and retailing group Inditex. Zara sells clothing, accessories, beauty products and perfumes. The head office is located at Arteixo in the province of A Coruña, Galicia. In 2020 alone, it launched over twenty new product lines.
Pull&Bear is a Spanish clothing and accessories retailer based in Narón, A Coruña, Galicia, founded in 1991. It is part of Inditex, owner of Zara and Bershka brands.
Rosalía Mera Goyenechea was a Spanish businesswoman and entrepreneur. At the time of her death, she was the richest woman in Spain and the world's richest self-made woman. In 1975, she co-founded the Zara retail chain with her then-husband Amancio Ortega Gaona. The company grew to become the world's largest fashion retailer.
Trent Limited is an Indian retail company, which is part of the Tata Group and based in Mumbai. Started in 1998, Trent owns and operates fashion and lifestyle retail formats such as Westside, Zudio and Utsa. The company also runs retail chains like Star Bazaar and Zara through joint ventures.
The Torre Cepsa is a skyscraper located in the Cuatro Torres Business Area in Madrid, Spain. With a height of 248.3 m (815 ft) and 45 floors, it is the second tallest of the four buildings in the Cuatro Torres Business Area complex, surpassed by Torre de Cristal by less than a metre. It is the second tallest building in Spain and the 5th tallest building in the European Union.
Bershka is a Spanish clothing retailer founded in 1998 in Spain. It is part of the Spanish Inditex group.
Massimo Dutti is a Spanish premium clothing retailer specializing in cashmere and wool products, established in 1985 and owned by Spanish multinational company Inditex, the parent company of Zara, Pull&Bear, and other brands.
Don Amancio Ortega Gaona, OMC is a Spanish billionaire businessman. He is the founder and former chairman of Inditex fashion group, best known for its chains of Zara and Bershka clothing and accessories shops. He is considered a pioneer in fast fashion. As of September 2024, Ortega had a net worth of $134.3 billion, making him the second-wealthiest person in Europe after Bernard Arnault and the 11th-wealthiest in the world. For a brief period of time in 2015, he was the richest man in the world, surpassing Bill Gates when his net worth peaked to $80 billion as Zara's parent company, Inditex's, stock peaked.
Pablo Isla Álvarez de Tejera is a Spanish businessman and a State lawyer who was chairman and CEO of Inditex, a Spanish corporation and the world's largest fashion group, from 2005 to 2022.
Stradivarius is a Spanish women's clothing fast fashion retailer from Barcelona owned by the Inditex group. As of 31 January 2022, Stradivarius is present with 915 stores in 62 countries.
José María Castellano Ríos is a Spanish businessman, born in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain in 1947.
Uterqüe is a fashion brand of the Spanish Inditex group dedicated to accessories and garments such as scarves and sunglasses. It was founded in 2008 as a company with headquarters in Tordera, Barcelona in Catalonia. In September 2021, Inditex announced the closing of all physical stores, but remaining as a brand within Massimo Dutti retail chain.
Oysho is a fashion chain specialising in sport and leisure, founded in 2001. Its headquarters are in Tordera (Barcelona). Oysho is part of the Inditex group and operates in more than 50 countries, with a network of 433 physical stores and an online store. The brand specializes in sports and leisure wear. Their company headquarters are in Tordera (Barcelona), Spain. The Inditex headquarters are in Arteixo, Spain.
Sandra Ortega Mera is a Spanish billionaire heiress, businesswoman and socialite.
Dubai Holding Group, established in 2000, is an Emirati multinational retail organization in the Middle East, representing fashion franchises.
Today, more fashion capitals exist than the original “Big Four” of London, Paris, Milan, and New York from the 20th century. Although the “Big Four” remain the most elite, other cities have developed into smaller fashion centers. The history of fashion in Barcelona begins in the early 20th century with the rise of the textile industry and spans through today with its current concentration on fast fashion. With various popular fashion districts and a handful of notable fashion events each year, Barcelona has proved itself as a major city for fashion. According to the Global Language Monitor, which ranks world fashion capitals, Barcelona ranks as #5.
The Ortega family is a Spanish dynastic family that is the eighth wealthiest family in the world. The majority of the family's wealth comes from the clothing company Inditex and its flagship store Zara. As of July 2022, the family has an estimated net worth of $110 billion. The head of the family, billionaire Amancio Ortega, is the twelfth richest person in the world.
Marta Ortega Pérez is the daughter of Amancio Ortega and was appointed chair of Inditex as of December 2021. Ortega replaced Pablo Isla, who was chair and CEO of Inditex since 2011. In April 2022, she will become president of the company.
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