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SPAIN: Inditex's Uterqüe launches online in three markets
19 April 2012
Uterqüe, the newest banner of Spain's Inditex Group, the retail giant that owns the Zara fashion chain, has launched its online store for customers in Belgium, the Netherlands and Austria.
Spotlight on...Brands deny claims of continued sandblasting
3 April 2012
Diesel has slammed a report in which it is accused of continuing to source its products from Bangladeshi suppliers that use sandblasting, despite the denim brand banning the practice.
SPAIN: Inditex FY profit up on international growth
21 March 2012
Inditex, the world's largest clothing retailer and owner of the Zara and Massmo Dutti stores, has seen its full-year profit shoot up on the back of continued worldwide expansion.
US: Zara opens new global concept store
16 March 2012
Spanish fashion retailer Zara has opened its largest US store on New York City's Fifth Avenue, featuring a new store design that will be rolled out to most of the retailer's international locations.
CANADA: Trimera invests in domestic design and production
10 February 2012
Apparel maker Trimera Group is opening two domestic development and production facilities next month to provide customers with on-site design centres as well as seamless knitting capabilities to help cut the time it takes to commercialise, test and launch products.
ITALY: Benetton issues full-year profit warning
1 February 2012
Retailer United Colours of Benetton today (1 February) issued a profit warning, saying that it expects full year profit to be down by more than 30% on the previous year.
PERU: Inditex opens first Zara store
30 January 2012
Inditex has announced that it has entered Peru with a Zara store in Lima's Jockey Plaza shopping centre.
BELGIUM/PORTUGAL: Inditex buys Massimo Dutti franchises
26 January 2012
Inditex announced today (26 January) that it has bought out the franchise agreements for its Massimo Dutti brand in Belgium and Portugal.
UK: Tesco to franchise F&F brand in Middle East
17 January 2012
Tesco today (17 January) said it is taking its F&F clothing line to the Middle East through a franchise deal with Fawaz Abdulaziz Al Hokair & Co - kicking off wider moves to turn the fashion label into a major global brand.
just-style management briefing: Manufacturing winners and losers in 2011
19 December 2011
Established skills and tradition were not enough to save some apparel makers from layoffs and factory closures in 2011. But acquisitions, an environmental focus and international expansion helped others to build on a solid recovery from the recession.
BANGLADESH: Compensation sought after Zara factory deaths
19 December 2011
Charity campaigners are calling on Spanish retail giant Inditex, owner of the Zara fashion chain, to help the families of garment workers killed after a boiler explosion at a factory in Bangladesh.
SPAIN: Asian and online growth lifts Inditex 9-month profit
14 December 2011
Spanish retail giant Inditex has seen its profit rise 10% in the first nine months of its financial year, boosted by expansion in Asia and growth in its online operations.
CHINA: Quality tests identify mis-labelled brands
12 December 2011
Spanish retailer Zara has again been accused of selling "sub-standard" clothes in China after tests were said to have found garments labelled with incorrect fibre content.
MOROCCO: Casablanca's Morocco Mall to join world's best
29 November 2011
Casablanca is set to join the ranks of the world’s leading shopping destinations with the opening next week of The Morocco Mall, which boasts 350 stores and covers more than 70,000 square metres.
THE FLANARANT: Is own label about to collapse?
16 November 2011
With more and more own label apparel retailers eyeing growth in Asia and Latin America to make up for shortfalls in their domestic markets, Mike Flanagan asks whether a business formula that's running out of steam at home will now work abroad. Especially if it's fuelled by designers who have little connection to those foreign customers.
Russia's clothing retail market set for steady growth
11 November 2011
After hitting hard times during the global economic crisis, the Russian clothing retail market is forecast to grow by 3-5% in 2011 and by about 6% per annum during 2012-13.
SOUTH AFRICA: Inditex opens first Zara store
11 November 2011
Inditex has opened its first Zara store in South Africa in the Sandton City shopping mall.
TAIWAN: Inditex opens first Zara store
7 November 2011
Inditex opened its first Zara store in Taiwan on Friday (4 November), based at Taipei 101, one of the world's tallest skyscrapers.
Top stories on just-style
4 November 2011
This week's top stories took on a footwear theme, with the WTO backing a complaint by China over EU anti-dumping duties and Inditex planning to expand footwear sourcing in Mexico. Meanwhile, Wal-Mart announced plans to move its fashion offices back to Bentonville and Limited Brands spun off its Mast sourcing unit.
Mexican shoe makers lifted by Inditex expansion
31 October 2011
Tempe Grupo Inditex, the shoe-making franchise of Spanish fashion giant Inditex, plans to triple its footwear production in Mexico. Meanwhile, other international brands such as Nike, Steve Madden and Puma are also mulling boosting their output in the Aztec country, whose Guanajuato region has become well-known for making high-quality leather shoes.
THE FLANARANT: Local knowledge is key to retail success
25 October 2011
With western retailers increasingly optimistic about business in emerging markets, does it also hold true that the industry will soon "be sourcing everywhere and selling everywhere"? Not according to Mike Flanagan, who believes most developing markets will stay small for a long time, and that locally-owned retailers will be the long-term beneficiaries.
FOCUS: Zara grows in Brazil while Gap and H&M dither
7 October 2011
Over the past five years, retail sales of apparel generated stronger incremental growth in Brazil than anywhere else in the world except China. Yet while Inditex is reaping the rewards of double-digit growth, H&M and Gap Inc have yet to grab a piece of the action. Has the best of the opportunity slipped away? asks Magdalena Kondej, head of apparel research at Euromonitor International.
SPAIN: Inditex plans market entries on strong H1
21 September 2011
Fashion retailer Inditex has revealed plans to enter a number of new markets as it recorded a steep rise in first half profit.
BRAZIL: Zara owner ramps up supply chain controls
20 September 2011
Spanish retailer Inditex, owner of the Zara fashion stores, has outlined a number of steps intended to stamp out exploitation in its Brazilian supply chain following last month's discovery that some of its clothing production was subcontracted to illegal sweatshops.
UK: Retailers urged to take action to end sweatshops
16 September 2011
Campaigners are using the start of London Fashion Week to step up calls for high street retailers to take more action to end poverty pay for overseas workers.
GERMANY: Bershka opens “green” Berlin store
9 September 2011
Inditex-owned fashion chain Bershka has opened its first store in Berlin and made its debut in South Korea.
SWEDEN: H&M ranked world's top user of organic cotton
7 September 2011
Swedish fashion retailer H&M was ranked as the world's number one user of organic cotton last year - taking it closer to its goal of only using cotton from more sustainable sources by 2020.
WORLD: Organic cotton market jumps 20% in 2010
6 September 2011
Neither the recession nor unstable economies have put a damper on the fast-growing organic textiles industry, according to a new report, which shows the sector grew by 20% to an estimated $5.61bn in 2010.
US/EUROPE: Inditex plans online launches
6 September 2011
Inditex has revealed plans to launch an e-commerce site for its Zara brand in the US tomorrow (7 September), following a series of online launches in Europe.
GERMANY/SOUTH KOREA: Inditex takes Bershka to Seoul and Berlin
30 August 2011
Inditex-owned young fashion brand Bershka launched in Germany and South Korea on Friday (26 August) with its first stores in the countries
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