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☆ Zara owner Inditex climbs to all-time high as 2023 sales jump 10%
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Sophie Kiderlin | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Shopper carrying two large shopping bags from the clothing retailer Zara on Oxford Street on 5th February 2024 in London, United Kingdom. Oxford Street is a major retail centre in the West End of the capital and is Europes busiest shopping street with around half a million daily visitors to its approximately 300 shops, the majority of which are fashion and high street clothing stores. Sales increased by 10.4% to 35.9 billion euros for the year, the company said, signaling this was a record high. Net income also reached a fresh high, after soaring by 30.3% from 2022 to reach 5.4 billion euros last year. Zara, including the Zara Home range, was the biggest contributor to sales in 2023, followed by Pull & Bear and Massimo Dutti, Inditex said on Wednesday.

Persons: Zara, Mike Kemp, Inditex, Oscar García Maceiras, Bershka, Massimo Dutti Organizations: United Kingdom ., Getty, Las Locations: London, United Kingdom, Zara, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Spanish

Another 25% will come from "next-generation" materials in which the group is investing, and the remaining 10% from other sustainable sources, the company said. The new targets come as the European Commission is drawing up regulations to make clothing retailers pay for the waste they produce, arguing that fast-fashion companies "encourage customers to shop impulsively and incentivise purchasing larger quantities of clothes". Inditex previously had targets to use more sustainable cotton, linen, polyester, and fibres made from wood pulp, but did not have an overall goal for recycled fibres. Shoppers walk past a Zara clothes store, part of the Spanish group Inditex, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, December 13, 2022. REUTERS/Borja Suarez/File Photo"Moving forward on sustainability is natural for us," said Inditex Non-Executive Chair, Marta Ortega, in brief comments to investors at the AGM.

Persons: Inditex, Oscar Garcia Maceiras, Borja Suarez, Marta Ortega, Ortega, Adam Gofton, Corina Pons, David Latona, Helen Reid, Andrei Khalip, Mark Potter, Sharon Singleton Organizations: Companies Zara, European Commission, Las Palmas de, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, REUTERS, Mackenzie Investments, Thomson Locations: MADRID, LONDON, Zara, Spanish, A Coruna, Spain, Las Palmas, Las Palmas de Gran, Toronto, Inditex, Madrid, London

☆ Zara shoppers are crowding back to the brand's stores, and it's sending sales skyrocketing
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Avery Hartmans | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Zara shoppers flocked to stores in 2022, giving a major sales boost to parent company Inditex. Inditex reported a 23% increase in store sales last year despite closing 10% of its stores. Zara shoppers have long complained that stores are crowded and checkout lines are unusually long. "A key factor of the year has been that traffic and store sales increased markedly," García Maceiras said. The US is a key market for Inditex, García Maceiras said, and has potential to provide a "significant" boost to the retailer's business long-term.

☆ Zara is opening or revamping nearly 30 stores in the US by 2025 — here's where they're located
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Avery Hartmans | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Inditex is planning to open at least 10 new Zara stores across the US by 2025. At least a dozen other Zara locations will be revamped or enlarged, the retailer said. "This is a market in which for every $100 of fashion sold, we take less than $0.50 of that," García Maceiras said. Foot traffic is up at Zara stores around the world, and Inditex reported a 23% jump in store sales in 2022 across its portfolio of brands, which includes Zara, Bershka, and Massimo Dutti. Inditex plans to invest 1.6 billion euros, about $1.7 billion, in expanding its stores and warehouses worldwide, including a new Zara store on Paris' Champs Elysées, and at least 10 new locations across the US.

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