Industria de Diseño Textil, S.A. , more commonly known as Inditex, is a large Spanish corporation and the world's largest fashion group. It is made up of almost a hundred companies dealing with activities related to textile design, production and distribution. Amancio Ortega, Spain's richest man, and the world's 7th richest man, is the founder and current chairman of Inditex. Inditex runs over more than 5402 stores worldwide and owns brands like Zara, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Oysho, Pull and Bear, Stradivarius, Zara Home, Tempe and Uterqüe, and also a low cost brand Lefties. The... majority of stores are corporate-owned; Franchises are only conceded in countries where corporate properties can not be foreign-owned . The group designs and manufactures almost everything by itself, and new designs are dispatched twice a week to Zara stores. Inditex headquarters are located in Arteixo, a small industrial town in the metropolitan area of A Coruña, Galicia, in northwestern Spain. Originally almost all merchandise was manufactured there.
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| Founded: | 1975 |
| Founders: | Rosalia Mera |
| Headquarters: | A Coruña, Spain |
| Industries: | Retail, Clothing |