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Inditex

  • Friday, 27 June, 2025
    News in-depth
    Zara at 50: can the world’s biggest fashion brand keep its appeal?

    Chief executive of Zara’s owner Inditex sees plenty more room for growth despite slowdown in sales

    Clothes hung up in a Zara outlet
  • Friday, 20 June, 2025
    Zara owner says conditions for Russia return ‘certainly not’ in place

    Inditex chief’s comments are latest sign that departed multinationals are not rushing to re-enter market

    Óscar García Maceiras, CEO of Inditex, during an interview with the FT at the Zara shop at Plaza de España in Madrid
  • Wednesday, 18 June, 2025
    Nestlé S.A.
    Nestlé proposes former Inditex chief Pablo Isla as new chair

    Ex-head of fast fashion group is set to replace Paul Bulcke, completing a leadership overhaul at the Swiss food giant

    Pablo Isla
  • Wednesday, 11 June, 2025
    Zara owner suffers slowdown from trade war and strong euro

    Spain’s Inditex has disappointed investors in recent quarters

    A shopper with a Zara bag in La Coruña
  • Sunday, 8 June, 2025
    The Week Ahead
    G7 reaches its half century in Canada with a focus on Ukraine and tariffs

    A week of anniversaries, a key Westminster spending decision and a knife-edge vote of confidence in Poland’s Donald Tusk

    The Pomeroy Kananaskis Mountain Lodge where the G7 Leaders meeting will take place
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    News in-depth
    How Zara’s unorthodox Russian exit left it primed for a return

    Inditex put cash into subsidiary before sale for ‘not significant’ sum to company now selling near-identical products

    A montage of handbags, high heels, and sandals displayed around the logos of Zara and Maag on a pink gradient background
  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    Lex
    Zara does not belong on the sales rack Premium content

    Investors who tossed Inditex out of their shopping baskets may have been too hasty

    A display of Zara earrings is in focus in the foreground. In the background, various colourful garments are hanging on racks
  • Wednesday, 12 March, 2025
    Inditex shares slide as slowing sales growth alarms investors

    Figures for world’s biggest fashion retailer show lower rates in past five weeks

    A woman walks while carrying a brown paper shopping bag with the Zara logo printed on it
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Inditex pins hopes on Trump dollar rally as sales disappoint

    Zara owner expects Trump rally to boost retailer in crucial Christmas quarter

    Outside a Zara store in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    Climate change
    More than a quarter of Fashion Pact fail to set basic climate targets

    Major brands still unable to deliver cuts in carbon footprint five years after signing initiative

    Karl Lagerfeld store in Berlin, Germany
  • Wednesday, 13 March, 2024
    Zara owner Inditex adds €1.8bn in logistics ‘muscle’ to power sales growth

    Spanish group’s shares jump as it reports ‘strong start’ to quarter

    A woman carrying a Zara bag
  • Sunday, 10 March, 2024
    LexEuropean companies
    Shein’s fast fashion rivals may find stores are their best defence Premium content

    Zara’s owner Inditex is improving sales by upgrading and expanding its flagship locations

    Shoppers walk past a Zara clothes store
  • Friday, 1 March, 2024
    Zara SA
    Zara returns to Ukraine following 2-year closure

    Decision to reopen stores by Spanish owner Inditex reflects tentative normality in some big cities

    A closed Zara store in Kyiv
  • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
    Zara billionaire grabs chance to buy up discounted real estate

    The €90bn family office of Inditex founder Amancio Ortega is upping its bets on commercial property

    Amancio Ortega in front of the Troy Block and Devonshire House
  • Wednesday, 13 December, 2023
    Zara owner Inditex reports slowdown in sales growth

    Spanish retailer’s quarterly figures fall short of forecasts

    A Zara shop on Oxford street, London.
  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    Zara owner bets on big stores to keep sales space growing

    Inditex says fashion retailer’s shops serve as showcase for the brand and as warehouses for ecommerce

    Shoppers walk past a Zara store in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
  • Friday, 23 June, 2023
    News in-depthRetail sector
    How the Zara juggernaut crashed the wedding party

    The Spanish clothing brand is reaping the rewards of outfits the rich and famous are happy to wear

    Zara campaign shot
  • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
    Lex
    Inditex: Marta’s charter is to grow like it is going out of fashion Premium content

    Scale helped the Spanish clothing retailer lift margins despite inflationary pressures

    Marta Ortega
  • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
    Zara owner Inditex boosted by strong sales of summer clothes

    Spanish group now fourth most valuable clothing retailer by market capitalisation

    Zara store in Madrid
  • Wednesday, 5 April, 2023
    Zara owner Inditex obtains approval to sell Russia business

    Go-ahead from Moscow comes more than a year after fashion retailer suspended operations in the country

    A Zara store
  • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
    Zara owner Inditex keeps door open to Russia return

    Spanish fashion group wants to increase its presence in the lucrative but tough US market

    Person carries Zara shopping bags
  • Sunday, 19 February, 2023
    InterviewPablo Isla
    Former Inditex boss Pablo Isla: ‘Whatever I do, I think about doing it indefinitely’

    Chair and CEO of the world’s largest clothing retailer for 17 years, he tells the FT how he steered its long-term growth

  • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
    LexRetail sector
    H&M/Inditex: inventory overhang weighs on profit outlook Premium content

    Subdued earnings mean Swedish retailer faces tougher few months than Spanish rival

    A woman walks past closed H&M and Zara stores at a shopping mall in Moscow
  • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
    Inditex insists China remains ‘core’ market despite Covid disruption

    Spanish fashion group posts 11% increase in quarterly sales

    A Zara store in Spain
  • Wednesday, 14 September, 2022
    Lex
    Inditex/Marta Ortega: inflation gives dynast a baptism of fire Premium content

    Three challenges loom for the world’s biggest clothing retailer

    Marta Ortega, chair of Inditex
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