Inditex Group
Type	Public (ITX)
Founded	1975
Headquarters	A Coruña, Spain
Key people	Amancio Ortega Gaona (President)
Industry	Retail
Products	Clothing
Revenue	€8.196 billion (2006)
Employees	60,000
Website	www.inditex.com

Inditex, Industrias de Diseño Textil, S.A., (IBEX-35:ITX), or ("Textil Design Industries, Inc.") 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. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Location Coordinates : Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name A Coruña (Galician) Spanish name La Coruña Postal code 15xxx Area code 34 (Spain) + 981 (A Coruña) Website http://www. ... Amancio Ortega Gaona (born March 28, 1936, Spain) is a Galician fashion entrepreneur, Spains richest man and in 2007 the 8th richest man in the world (Forbes) and the founder, with his then-wife Rosalia Mera, and chairman of the Inditex Group. ... Drawing of a self-service store. ... Look up revenue in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... One thousand million (1,000,000,000) is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about work. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... The IBEX-35 is an index of stocks that trade on the Madrid Stock Exchange in Spain. ... For other uses, see Corporation (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Textile (disambiguation). ... Amancio Ortega Gaona (born March 28, 1936, Spain) is a Galician fashion entrepreneur, Spains richest man and in 2007 the 8th richest man in the world (Forbes) and the founder, with his then-wife Rosalia Mera, and chairman of the Inditex Group. ...

Inditex runs over 3,000 stores worldwide and owns brands like Zara, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Oysho, Pull and Bear, Zara Home, Often and Stradivarius. Most stores are corporate-owned since franchises are only conceded in countries where corporate properties can not be foreign-owned (in some Middle Eastern countries, for example). A Zara store in ifc, Central, Hong Kong. ... Massimo Duttis logo Massimo Dutti is a company belonging to the Spanish Inditex group dedicated to the manufacturing of clothing. ... Bershka is a company belonging to the Spanish Inditex group (owner of Zara), that was created in April 1998 as a new store and fashion concept, aimed at a young target market. ... Pull and Bear is a Spanish chain of fashion stores introduced in 1991 by Inditex Group. ... Franchising (from the French for honesty or freedom[1]) is a method of doing business wherein a franchisor licenses trademarks and tried and proven methods of doing business to a franchisee in exchange for a recurring payment, and usually a percentage piece of gross sales or gross profits as well...

The group designs and manufactures almost everything by itself, and new designs are dispatched twice a week to Zara stores.

Inditex headquarters are located in Arteixo, a village in the province of A Coruña in Galicia, north of Spain. It is there where almost all its merchandises are manufactured. In addition they have another big plant mainly responsible for shoes’ design, production and distribution in Elche, a well-known town of Alicante’s province in the Spanish Mediterranean coast. Nickname: Motto: {{{motto}}} Official website: Concello de Arteixo Location Location of Arteixo within Galicia Government Parroquias  ? Alcalde (Mayor)  ? (?) Geographical characteristics Area 93. ... Location Coordinates : Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name A Coruña (Galician) Spanish name La Coruña Postal code 15xxx Area code 34 (Spain) + 981 (A Coruña) Website http://www. ... Galicia (Spain) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... View of Elche Elche (in Spanish) or Elx (in Catalan) is a city in the Alicante province in Valencia, Spain, near the city of Alicante. ...

History

The first Zara shop opened its doors in 1975 in A Coruña (Galicia, 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-Élysées, London's Regent Street, Frankfurt's Zeil, Shanghai's Nanjing West Road or Tokyo's Shibuya . Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Location Coordinates : Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) General information Native name A Coruña (Galician) Spanish name La Coruña Postal code 15xxx Area code 34 (Spain) + 981 (A Coruña) Website http://www. ... Galicia (Spain) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... This article is about the state. ... Street sign at Fifth Avenue and East 57th street Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in New York City. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... The Champs-Élysées (pronounced  ) is the most prestigious and broadest avenue in Paris. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The Quadrant at the bottom of Regent Street. ... For other uses, see Frankfurt (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Tokyo (disambiguation). ... Categories: Wards of Tokyo | Japan geography stubs ...

Inditex won the 2006 Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award for their innovative and successful implemenation of information technology to drastically decrease the time it takes to get new merchandise from the design stage to the in-store stage. In 2002, the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania and Infosys started the Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award. ...

Companies of the group

A Zara store in ifc, Central, Hong Kong. ... Pull and Bear is a Spanish chain of fashion stores introduced in 1991 by Inditex Group. ... Massimo Duttis logo Massimo Dutti is a company belonging to the Spanish Inditex group dedicated to the manufacturing of clothing. ... Bershka is a company belonging to the Spanish Inditex group (owner of Zara), that was created in April 1998 as a new store and fashion concept, aimed at a young target market. ...

See also

• European Retail Round Table

The European Retail Round Table is a European organization which represents companies from the European retail sector. ...

External links

• Inditex official webpage

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