The Inditex Group's flagship brand offers women's, men's and children's fashions at affordable prices. The real revolution of this brand has been the democratisation of fashion. This concept has spread around the world to the 3.500 stores the company currently has.
The turnover and international presence of the Inditex Group has made it one of the flagships of Spanish fashion.
Its origins date back to 1963, when the Group's founder, Amancio Ortega, first began his business venture. Several years later, in 1975, the first Zara store opened in A Coruña. This stored offered an innovative business model combining fashion and business as well as design and industry, carefully adapted to the real market situation.
The success of Zara's business model marked a before and after in the history of fashion. This success is due to its capacity to react almost immediately to changing markets tastes and to offer fashion at affordable prides. It is for this reason that Inditex's Chairman is considered to be a leading figure in the democratisation of fashion, both in Spain and abroad. Inditex has a keen sense of what customers are looking for. They also have an ability to design, produce and distribute a collection to anywhere in the world in just two weeks.
This business philosophy has paved the way for the creation of new brands within the Group, such as Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Stradivarius, Pull and Bear, Oysho and Zara Home, as well as for its international expansion. Today the Group's various companies have a total of 3.500 points of sale worldwide. As a result more than half its sales correspond to foreign markets.
Inditex's listing on the Stock Market revolutionised the financial markets. Its debut on the floor took place on 23 May 2001. Just a couple of months later its shares already formed part of the select Ibex 35.
