Zara owner Inditex has sharply increased its use of air freight to bring clothes from factories in India to its logistics hub in Spain to avoid shipping delays, according to trade data, industry experts, and investors. The shift raises questions about how the world’s biggest listed fast-fashion retailer is progressing towards its target of slashing…
Representative Image Zara owner Inditex reported a rebound in recent sales of its first autumn-winter collections on Wednesday, offsetting a slowdown in sales in the first half of the year that was in line with analysts’ expectations. The fashion giant said its sales between Aug. 1 and Sept. 8 saw an 11% boost in constant…
H&M plans to offer more discounted fashions in the second half of this year as it tries to win back customers from the likes of Zara owner Inditex and Shein. H&M has over the past year or so said it was prioritising profitability over sales volumes in order to reach a 10% operating margin goal,…
Zara owner Inditex grew its sales by 7% in the first quarter of its fiscal year, it said on Wednesday, in line with analysts’ expectations. The performance represented a slowdown from a year ago when it benefited from a post-pandemic shopping spree. Inditex, which also owns Pull&Bear, Massimo Dutti and other brands, is attempting to…
Zara will expand its live shopping broadcasts to the UK, Europe and the United States this year, testing a format that is already wildly popular in China but one with which Western shoppers are less familiar. The fast-fashion brand, whose parent Inditex reports quarterly results on Wednesday, is investing in new ways to engage shoppers…
MUMBAI: Spain’s Inditex, the owner of fashion brand Zara, saw its slowest ever sales growth in India, excluding the pandemic year, in FY24 as the world’s largest fashion group faced rising competition from global rivals in the clothing market that is increasingly getting cluttered. Inditex Trent, its joint venture with Tata that runs 23 of…
Mumbai: Spanish fashion company Inditex said it will launch youth clothing brand Bershka and Zara Home in India this year. “Bershka will open its first store in Mumbai Palladium, and Zara Home will open in Bangalore,” it said in its latest annual report. Inditex had launched fast fashion brand Zara in 2010 and premium clothing…
Madrid: Zara owner Inditex, the world’s biggest fashion retailer, on Wednesday reported its highest-ever profits in 2023 thanks to buoyant sales and its policy of raising prices. Its net profit reached 5.4 billion euros ($5.9 billion) last year, up 30 percent from 4.1 billion euros in 2022, which also was a record for the fashion…
Investors want Zara owner Inditex to follow rivals H&M and Primark in making its full list of suppliers public so they can better assess any supply chain risks. Inditex is an outlier among big clothing retailers in not publishing which factories it sources from. Regulators and investors want greater transparency and better disclosure from companies….
Spanish fashion retailer Mango reported on Monday record sales of 3.1 billion euros ($3.39 billion) in 2023, beating its forecast after matching domestic rival Zara’s strong expansion in the United States. The Barcelona-based brand said sales jumped 19% last year to exceed its forecast of 3 billion euros through a focus on party wear and…
