The fashion retailer 'Zara' has its headquarters in which country?
"Arteixo, an industrial municipality in the A Coruña metropolitan area, is the headquarters of Inditex, the world's largest fashion retailer. Of their eight brands, Zara is the best-known; indeed, it is the best-known Spanish brand of any sort on an international basis. For 2007, Inditex had 9,435 million euros in sales for a net profit of 1,250 million euros. The company president, Amancio Ortega, is the richest person in Spain and indeed Europe with a net worth of 45 billion euros. Galicia is home to the savings bank, and to Spain's two oldest commercial banks Banco Etcheverría (the oldest) and"
"owed. As of January 2018, Chinese authorities are publicly scolding Zara for listing Taiwan as a country on their website. As of April 2018, MaXhosa by Laduma is taking legal action against Zara for copying its designs. In June 2018, a Zara jacket with ""I really don't care, do U?"" emblazoned on the back became controversial after it was worn by Melania Trump when she visited a detention center for migrant children separated from their parents. There are over 7000 Zara stores in 50 countries located across 96 markets. Zara (retailer) Zara SA () is a Spanish fast fashion (clothing"
"use of information technologies and using groups of designers instead of individuals. In 1988, the company started its international expansion through Porto, Portugal. In 1989, it entered the United States, and then France in 1990. During the 1990s, Zara expanded to Mexico (1992), Greece, Belgium and Sweden (1993). In the early 2000s, Zara opened its first stores in Japan and Singapore (2002), Russia and Malaysia (2003), China, Morocco, Estonia, Hungary and Romania (2004), the Philippines, Costa Rica and Indonesia (2005), South Korea (2008), India (2010), and South Africa and Australia (2011). On September 2010, Zara launched its online boutique. The"
"opened stores in Russia, Slovakia and Malaysia. The following year Latvia, Hungary, and Panama amongst other countries where stores opened, including the 2,000th store in Hong Kong. By 2006, the company had expanded into mainland China. In 2010, the company opened their 5,000th location in Rome and its first in India. The first stores in Australia and South Africa opened in 2011. The company's expansion continued to the Serbia, Republic of Macedonia, Armenia, Ecuador, Georgia and Bosnia-Herzegovina in 2012. In 2014, Inditex opened stores in Albania. In 2007, Inditex launched the Zara Home online retail store. Zara joined the e-commerce"
"Hamra Street, in the heart of Lebanon, Beirut. Despite a civil war, in the 1980s the Group won its first international retail franchise name: MaxMara. The company continued to expand in the Middle East over the next two decades as it grew into the United Arab Emirates (1993), Kuwait (1998), Qatar (1998), Bahrain (1999), Jordan (2001), Egypt (2005), Saudi Arabia (2007), Oman (2007), Iran (2008), Erbil (2009) and eventually a total of 15 countries, as well as through securing the franchise rights for renowned brands such as: Zara, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Pull & Bear, Stradivarius, Oysho, Uterque, Zara Home, Mango,"
"China, Latvia and United Kingdom. The number of Bershka stores in each country or region: Bershka Bershka () is a clothing retailer company. It is part of the Spanish Inditex group (which also own the brands of Zara, Massimo Dutti, Pull&Bear, Oysho, Uterqüe, Stradivarius and Zara Home). The company was created in April 1998 as a new store and fashion concept, aimed at a young target market. It now has over 1000 stores in 71 countries around the world. The sales made from Bershka represent 10% of the Inditex group. On 6 September 2011, the company (alongside its sister brands)"
"later in Abu Dhabi. In 2013, after global success of brand stores were planned in Saudi Arabia, Canada, Mexico, America, Australia, Malaysia and United Kingdom. The most successful international outlets of store are in UK. It has opened the biggest selling shop ever in Pakistan at Dolmen Mall Clifton, Karachi with total of 22,000-square-feet. Shamoon considered ""Zara"" as his inspiration and has described his likeness for ""Paul Smith's style of retailing."" Shamoon Sultan Shamoon Sultan is a Pakistani Textile designer, textile businessmen and founder of ""Khaadi"", an international retailing fashion house which produces ""handwoven"" clothing material for men, women and"
"her then-husband, Amancio Ortega Gaona. The couple opened the first Zara store in 1975 in A Coruña. Eventually the couple parlayed their work into a multi-billion dollar enterprise. Zara's success was in part due to its strategy of imitating popular fashions and quickly making them for sale at inexpensive prices. Ten years after the opening of the first Zara store, Inditex was established as a holding company for the couple's businesses. Inditex now comprises multiple fashion companies, of which Zara is the flagship. The company also owns the retailers Bershka, Massimo Dutti, Oysho, Pull & Bear, Stradivarius, Uterque and Zara"
"Inditex Industria de Diseño Textil, S.A. (Inditex; , ; Textile Design Industry) is a Spanish multinational clothing company headquartered in Arteixo (A Coruña) in Galicia. Inditex, the biggest fashion group in the world, operates over 7,200 stores in 93 markets worldwide. The company's flagship store is Zara, but it also owns the chains Zara Home, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Oysho, Pull and Bear, Stradivarius and Uterqüe. The majority of its stores are corporate-owned, while franchises are mainly conceded in countries where corporate properties can not be foreign-owned. The company operates a unique business model: instead of committing a large percentage of"
"are Zara products. Amancio Ortega Amancio Ortega Gaona (, born 28 March 1936) is a Spanish billionaire businessman. He is the founder and former chairman of Inditex fashion group, best known for its chain of Zara clothing and accessories shops. As of late September 2018, Ortega had a net worth of $68.2 billion, making him the second-wealthiest person in Europe after Bernard Arnault, and the fifth-wealthiest in the world. Ortega is also the wealthiest retailer in the world. The youngest of four children, Ortega was born in Busdongo de Arbás, León, Spain, to Antonio Ortega Rodríguez and Josefa Gaona Hernández"
"Olympics), the benefits of analysing and annotating comprehensive, detailed product images are as applicable to long-term projects with meticulous quality requirements as they are to the rapid creation of new, short-term styles for the consumer market. Although Spanish-headquartered chain Zara is often held as the model for Fast Fashion (manufacturing more than 30,000 units each year, and delivering to 1,600 stores in 58 countries), the company actually conducts their own design and production at a complex in La Coruna, Spain. This is in contrast to many brands and manufacturers, who moved the bulk of their manufacturing offshore in the first"
"in United Kingdom, and began setting stores in 5-star hotels in London and letting his previous customers know by mail that he would be coming to measure people for suits. These international tours proved profitable, so Raja Fashions quickly adapted this strategy for others cities in the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2009, Raja Fashions embarked on a second round of expansion, establishing hotel shops in Australia, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Belgium, and Switzerland. In 2012, Raja Fashions offered service in the United Arab Emirate of Doha for the first time. An advertorial commissioned by the company -"
"a shopping mall in Kabalagala, a neighborhood in the Makindye Division in the south-eastern part of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city. Her label is invited to participate in local, regional and international fashion shows including ""Accra Fashion Week"", in Ghana and ""Swahili Fashion Week"" in Tanzania, in 2016 alone. In 2017, she was invited to showcase her design at the World Fashion Week 2017, in Kuala Lampur, Malaysia. Her expanding client base includes clients in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, the United Kingdom and other countries. She has also showcased her design at fashion shows in Nigeria, Addis Ababa,"
"Rosalía Mera Rosalía Mera Goyenechea (28 January 1944 – 15 August 2013) was a Spanish businesswoman and entrepreneur. At the time of her death, she was the richest woman in Spain and the world's richest self-made woman. In 1975, she co-founded the Zara retail chain with her then-husband Amancio Ortega Gaona. The company grew to become the world's largest fashion retailer. Rosalia Mera was born in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain in 1944. She dropped out of school at age eleven to work as a sales assistant in a clothing shop. Mera began designing gowns and lingerie in her home with"
"marketplace in September 2010, launching websites in Spain, the UK, Portugal, Italy, Germany and France. In November 2010, Zara's online presence grew to include Austria, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. In September 2011, Inditex brought Zara's e-commerce platform to the U.S., as well as adding the brands Pull and Bear, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Stadivarius, Oysho and Uterqüe to the e-commerce space. As of February 2016, Inditex operates e-commerce sites in 28 markets and plans to add 12 more by April. In September 2018, Inditex announced to sell all its brands online by 2020, even in places where it does"
"in Oleiros (A Coruña). Her daughter Sandra Ortega Mera inherited her wealth (her son Marcos was born with cerebral palsy), and became Spain's richest woman with a net wealth of $6.1 billion. Rosalía Mera Rosalía Mera Goyenechea (28 January 1944 – 15 August 2013) was a Spanish businesswoman and entrepreneur. At the time of her death, she was the richest woman in Spain and the world's richest self-made woman. In 1975, she co-founded the Zara retail chain with her then-husband Amancio Ortega Gaona. The company grew to become the world's largest fashion retailer. Rosalia Mera was born in A Coruña,"
"of Valladolid, and spent his childhood in León. He left school and moved to A Coruña at the age of 14, due to the job of his father, a railway worker. Shortly after, he found a job as a shop hand for a local shirtmaker called Gala, which still sits on the same corner in downtown A Coruña, and learned to make clothes by hand. In 1972, he founded Confecciones Goa to sell quilted bathrobes. In 1975, he opened his first Zara store with his wife Rosalía Mera. In 2009, Zara was part of the Inditex group (Industrias de Diseño"
"Zarah (television personality) Zarah (born in Manila, Philippines) is an American television personality, television producer, recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Her earlier work as a musician included opening for the Goo Goo Dolls and was later popularized for inspiring youth from the television show, ""B InTune TV"" in 2005. Zarah, who came to Los Angeles at a young age, is a mix of Filipino, Spaniard and Chinese. She presently hosts the popular music-based teen show ""B InTune TV"", achieving a global success of 200 million homes in the United States with broadcast affiliates of 54 countries worldwide including Canada, Europe"
"Amancio Ortega Amancio Ortega Gaona (, born 28 March 1936) is a Spanish billionaire businessman. He is the founder and former chairman of Inditex fashion group, best known for its chain of Zara clothing and accessories shops. As of late September 2018, Ortega had a net worth of $68.2 billion, making him the second-wealthiest person in Europe after Bernard Arnault, and the fifth-wealthiest in the world. Ortega is also the wealthiest retailer in the world. The youngest of four children, Ortega was born in Busdongo de Arbás, León, Spain, to Antonio Ortega Rodríguez and Josefa Gaona Hernández from the province"
"other disseminators of the video, for having 'severely violated socialist core values'. The ""New York Times"" noted that the store's exterior had become a popular venue for people to gather and take pictures in poses reminiscent of the video. Uniqlo has 27 stores in Hong Kong SAR as of May 2018. On 17 November 2014, Uniqlo opened its first store in Eastern France (and the second store in France outside Greater Paris) in the city of Strasbourg. Their German flagship store opened on 11 April 2014 at Tauentzienstraße, Berlin. Uniqlo is set to open a store in India in 2019,"
"C&A C&A is an international chain of fashion retail clothing stores, with European head offices in Vilvoorde, Belgium, and Düsseldorf, Germany. It has retail stores in many European countries. It serves only the largest markets of Asia, North America and South America. C&A's brands include Angelo Litrico, Canda, Clockhouse, Here+There, Palomino, Rodeo (ski and snowboard clothes), Westbury, Yessica, Yessica Pure, and Your Sixth Sense. The Brenninkmeijer family owns the C&A group through its Swiss company Cofra Holding AG. The company's success has led the family to be considered, by the Dutch, among the wealthiest in the Netherlands. The Brenninkmeijer family,"
"and well-being, we will no longer carry our men's collection"". As of May 2016, the company has over 180 stores throughout Canada as well as 56 international locations including a large presence in the Middle East particularly in Saudi Arabia, where the company has 25 stores, and the United Arab Emirates. The most recent Canadian addition in 2016 is the new store in Quebec City at the Les Galeries de la Capitale shopping mall. The most recent international addition is a store in Astana, Kazakhstan which opened in January 2011. The company has plans to expand to ten new countries"
"York City. In 2014 the company received criticism for releasing a television commercial around Mother's Day which featured a woman poking a hole in a condom, displaying the words ""You decide"" on the screen. The company defended the ad. Desigual shops are located in Andorra, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Curaçao, the Czech Republic, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Estonia, the Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, South Korea, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway,"
"Accra, Ghana; Dakar, Senegal; and Lagos, Nigeria. There is one new fashion capital from East Asia: Kuala Lumpur. There is one new fashion capital from the Middle East: Beirut, Lebanon. Before the various insurgencies in the region, Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. There are two new fashion capitals from North America: Portland, Oregon known for its ‘weird’ culture, much like Austin, Texas and Columbus, Ohio known in the fashion world as the manufacturing headquarters of Henri Bendel, Victoria’s Secret, the Bath & Body Works, Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F), and others. No. 3 Barcelona — Moving"
"Nigeria. There is one new fashion capital from East Asia: Kuala Lumpur. There is one new fashion capital from the Middle East: Beirut, Lebanon. Before the various insurgencies in the region, Beirut was known as the Paris of the Middle East. There are two new fashion capitals from North America: Portland, Oregon known for its ‘weird’ culture, much like Austin, Texas and Columbus, Ohio known in the fashion world as the manufacturing headquarters of Henri Bendel, Victoria’s Secret, the Bath & Body Works, Abercrombie & Fitch (A&F), and others. No. 3 Barcelona — Moving into Big Four Territory is Big"
"Farra Design Center FARRA Design Center is a privately held home products retail store that sells imported furniture and home accessories. The company originated in Beirut, Lebanon, and started as a raw material supplier. The first FARRA store opened in Downtown Beirut in 1976 then moved to Dekwaneh in the early 1980s. In 2004, the company constructed a 7 floors showroom and moved its flagship store to Mkalles (Beirut). FARRA was founded in 1939 by Anwar Farra in Lebanon named after his family name. It is now privately held by the founder’s family and has since changed its legal name"
"complaints given the large volume of traffic they receive on their site. When the news was eventually picked up by media outlets, and Inditex, Zara's owning company, was asked to comment on the issue, Inditex replied that the items in question have been suspended from sale, and that they are in contact with Bassen's lawyer to clarify and address the issue. In November 2017, customers shopping at Zara stores in Istanbul, Turkey, found handwritten notes purportedly from Turkish workers in the pockets of in-store garments asking shoppers to pressure Zara into paying them the wages, which they claim they are"
"Zalora Group Zalora Group is an e-retailer founded by Rocket Internet with operations in several South East Asian countries. Zalora's e-commerce websites launched in 2012 in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand and Vietnam. Zalora raised $100 million in May 2013 from Rocket Internet, Swedish investment house Kinnevik AB, Summit Partners, Verlinvest and Tengelmann Group... Zalora raised a second round in December 2013 of $112 million from new investors including Len Blavatnik's Access Industries. In September 2014, Rocket Internet and Kinnevik formed Global Fashion Group comprising Lamoda, Dafiti, Namshi, Jabong and Zalora. In April 2016, Central Group"
"creativity in interior design and student projects. Farra Design Center FARRA Design Center is a privately held home products retail store that sells imported furniture and home accessories. The company originated in Beirut, Lebanon, and started as a raw material supplier. The first FARRA store opened in Downtown Beirut in 1976 then moved to Dekwaneh in the early 1980s. In 2004, the company constructed a 7 floors showroom and moved its flagship store to Mkalles (Beirut). FARRA was founded in 1939 by Anwar Farra in Lebanon named after his family name. It is now privately held by the founder’s family"
"Zeena Zaki Zeena Zaki (born 1974) is an Iraqi haute couture fashion designer. She launched her first fashion atelier in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates in 2003, where her fashion house operates under the label ""Julea Domani"", an epitome of both Edwardian and Victorian fashion eras which prove popular amongst the UAE's fashionista's. Born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to Iraqi parents, Zeena and her family moved after two years to travel to Romania then to Kuwait, Iraq and then the Emirates. Zaki came from an artistic background. Her father, an interior designer who designed two of his own restaurants in Dubai"
"store was introduced at Marina Bay Sands. On 20 August 2015, a store opened in Greenstone Mall, Johannesburg, South Africa. Two other stores have opened in South Africa: at Mall of Africa and Eastgate. In November 2015, a store opened at Antara Polanco Fashion Mall in Mexico City, its first store in Mexico. As of June 2018, there are 4 stores in Mexico: one in Querétaro at Antea Lifestyle Center, one in Veracruz at Andamar Lifestyle Center and two in Mexico City at Antara Polanco Fashion Mall and Artz Pedregal. There's one store in Nicosia, Cyprus. There is also a"
"College where he studied fashion before moving to Manchester and then to London. After graduating from college, France began working for Zara. He has also worked for Selfridges among other retailers to learn more about the wholesale business side, and finally to a brand to learn more about manufacturing. “I wanted to diversify my experience, learning everything from design to delivery to wholesale.” He even became managing director in his early twenties. He was company director at Shade Clothing before he opened his solo company. France started working in the United States in 2008 before officially moving there in 2015."
"Zakka Zakka (from the Japanese 'kak-ka in de zak-ka'（閣下 雑貨）or 'miscellaneous things') is a fashion and design phenomenon that has spread from Japan throughout Asia. The term refers to everything and anything that improves your home, life and appearance. It is often based on household items from the West that are regarded as kitsch in their countries of origin, but it can also be Japanese goods, mainly from the fifties, sixties, and seventies. In Japan there are also so-called Asian Kakka in de zakka stores; that usually refers to Southeast Asia. The interest in Nordic design or Scandinavian design, both"