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Industria de Diseño Textil, S.A. (Inditex) (, ; Textile Design Industries) is a Spanish multinational clothing company headquartered in Arteixo, Galicia. It is made up of almost a hundred companies dealing in activities related to textile design, production, and distribution. Amancio Ortega, Spain's richest man, and currently the world's second richest man, is the founder and current largest shareholder. The current chairman of Inditex is Pablo Isla. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.〔(Frankfurt Stock Exchange )〕 Inditex, the biggest fashion group in the world, operates over 6,600 stores worldwide and owns brands like Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Oysho, Pull and Bear, Stradivarius, Zara, Tempe, and Uterqüe, and also a low-cost brand Lefties. The majority of its stores are corporate-owned; franchises are only conceded in countries where corporate properties can not be foreign-owned (in some Middle Eastern countries, for example). The group designs and manufactures almost everything by itself, and new designs are dispatched twice a week to Zara stores. Most of the company's manufacturing is done in countries with low labour costs, mainly in Bangladesh, India, Morocco, China and Turkey, although some production continues in Spain, Brazil and Portugal, particularly for its Zara brand. In addition, Inditex has a factory for shoe design, production and distribution in the town of Elche, on the Spanish Mediterranean coast. ==History== The company started by introducing a new concept of fashion design: instead of long-lasting pieces of clothing, they offered a great variety at affordable prices. In the beginning, Zara became famous by offering clothing at low prices and then slowly worked its way up to match the quality of today's best brands. The group started its activity in 1963 as a dress maker, but it wasn't until 1975 that Zara shop opened its doors in A Coruña (Galicia, Spain), the city which saw the group's early beginnings and which is now home to its central offices. The international expansion of the group began in 1988, with Inditex opening its first foreign store in Oporto, Portugal. Today, Inditex's stores can be seen in places like New York's Fifth Avenue, Milan's Piazza Duomo, London's Regent Street and Oxford Street, Frankfurt's Zeil, Shanghai's Nanjing West Road, Tokyo's Shibuya, Istanbul's Nişantaşı, Seoul's Myeong-dong, and Vienna's Kärntner Straße. In the 1990s, Inditex began creating or acquiring subsidiaries to manage different collections: Bershka, Pull and Bear, Massimo Dutti, and Stradivarius. In May 2001, Inditex turned into a publicly traded company, being valued at US$8 billion (€9 billion at the time).〔(Inside Zara ) Forbes Global〕 Inditex won the 2006 Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award for their innovative and successful implementation of information technology to drastically decrease the time it takes to get new merchandise from the design stage to the in-store stage. In 2008, Inditex launched Uterqüe, the new accessories brand of the company. Three inaugural flagship stores were opened in Madrid (Calle Serrano), Barcelona (Passeig de Gràcia) and A Coruña. On 22 September 2008, Inditex opened its 4,000th store in the Ginza in Tokyo, considered one of the most important shopping areas in the world. In 2010, Zara had sales of €12.5 billion, with only twice a year newspaper advertisements. On 20 April 2011, the first Zara store opened in Australia. Thus, the Inditex group was present for the first time on five continents, and in 86 countries. After the 2013 Savar building collapse, Inditex was one of the thirty-eight companies who signed the Accord on Factory and Building Safety in Bangladesh. In 2015 Inditex bought commercial properties in Soho, New York City for over $280 million. They plan to open Zara and other stores on Broadway. In the first quarter of its fiscal year 2015, Inditex recorded an attributable profit of 521 million euros, which represents an increase of 28 percent over the same period last year in 2014. 〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Inditex」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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