Inditex is a Spanish clothing company and it’s one of the world’s largest fashion companies, with 8 distinct brands.
In the early 1960s, Amancio Ortega established in clothing industry as a teen while working for a local shirt maker in A Coruña, Spain, and began developing his own designs. After 12 years making textiles, Ortega and his wife opened their first store in A Coruña. It was called Zara. In 1976, Zara’s business model reduced the gap between fashion creation and consumers, bringing customers closer than ever to the products they wanted, all for an affordable price. Nowadays, the company has brand stores in some of the most prestigious shopping districts in cities all over the world and it has become a fashion icon.
Inditex was officially founded in 1985. It was incorporated to bring all its companies together under one brand. In 1988 Zara went international. Between 1991 and 2009 new brands appeared within the company, such as Pull & Bear, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Stradivarius, Oysho, Zara Home and Uterqüe.
Since the beginning, Inditex has been expanding all over the world and continues to do so today.
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