Zara

Chinese Zara rival Urban Revivo steps up global push with new stores in fashion capitals

[SHANGHAI] China’s Urban Revivo will open a nearly 2,700-square-metre store in London on Wednesday (Sep 3), its second in the city this year, as the fast fashion retailer often likened to Inditex’s Za...

Zara founder Amancio Ortega, 89, has a net worth of about US$103.7 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Zara founder Ortega goes on deal spree to shield US$104 billion from tax

The spending spree coincides with him receiving his biggest-ever annual dividend in early May from the retail giant he founded more than six decades ago

The need to revitalise Zara’s retail network has been particularly apparent in China.

Zara opens flagship store in China’s Nanjing with cafe and content creation studio

The Spanish company has put in place more digital integration and spaces designed to encourage shoppers to spend more time in-store

Zara owner Inditex pointed to “very satisfactory” sales which hit 38.6 billion euros in 2024, a 7.5 per cent increase from the previous year.

Zara owner Inditex posts record annual profit as billionaire Ortega takes 3 billion euros in dividends

[MADRID] Zara owner Inditex, the world’s biggest fashion retailer, reported a record annual profit for the third consecutive year on Wednesday (Mar 12) due to dynamic sales and higher prices.

Shein has expanded rapidly into South-east Asia in 2022, not long after moving its parent firm to Singapore from China.

Shein’s 2022 sales grow 4x ahead of IPO to close in on Zara

CHINA-FOUNDED Shein started surging in popularity in 2020 amid the Covid-19 pandemic, as customers who were stuck at home logged on to the online retailer to buy cheap clothes. The financials of its p...

Of 123 net store closures globally last year, 50 were in China, Inditex’s annual report showed.

Zara owner Inditex slashes China stores in digital focus

ZARA-OWNER Inditex more than doubled its pre-tax profits in China last year even as the fashion retailer scaled back its physical presence, closing a fifth of its stores in the country in a sign its f...

Inditex, which owns Zara, declined to comment on investors’ demands for it to publish its full supplier list.

Investors push Zara owner Inditex to publish full supply chain

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.

The restart of Zara’s operations comes as Venezuelans’ purchasing slowly recovers after widespread dollarisation tamed inflation, and an easing of US sanctions allowed investment to pick up.

Zara stores return to Venezuela after hyperinflation is tamed

FASHION retailer Zara is reopening in Venezuela as consumer spending recovers after the country tamed hyperinflation.