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Zara Home is a company that belongs to the Spanish Inditex group dedicated to the manufacturing of home textiles. It was created in 2003. [ 2 ] It has around 408 stores in 44 countries.
Oxford Street is a major road in the City of Westminster in the West End of London, running between Tottenham Court Road and Marble Arch.It marks the notional boundary between the areas of Fitzrovia and Marylebone to the north, with Soho and Mayfair to its immediate south.
The Oxford Street store, originally opened in 1864 (rebuilt in 1953 following significant bomb damage in World War II), is the largest operated by the partnership. 35 of the stores are traditional department stores and 12 are 'John Lewis at home' stores.
The stores are in a mixture of city centre and out-of-town shopping centre locations. The flagship Oxford Street store in London remains the largest John Lewis outlet in the UK. [36] 'John Lewis at Home' stores cater for areas which have no large John Lewis department store near them. The first store opened in Poole in October 2009. [37]
Zara was established by Amancio Ortega Gaona in 1975. Their first shop was in central A Coruña, in Galicia, Spain, where the company is still based.They initially called it 'Zorba' after the classic 1964 film Zorba the Greek, but after learning there was a bar with the same name two blocks away, rearranged the letters to read 'Zara'.
Ten years after the opening of the first Zara store, Inditex was established as a holding company for the couple's businesses. [4] Inditex now comprises multiple fashion companies, of which Zara is the flagship. [1] The company also owns the retailers Bershka, Massimo Dutti, Oysho, Pull & Bear, Stradivarius, Uterque and Zara Home. [5]
The Horse Shoe Brewery was established in 1764 on the junction of Tottenham Court Road and Oxford Street. [11] The current Horseshoe pub was built in the 19th century. [ 5 ] Whitefield's Tabernacle was built in 1756 for the Reverend George Whitefield , and subsequently became the world's largest Methodist church after it was extended in 1760.
Founded in Hanover Street in 1803, it moved to its current location in Savile Row in 1986. Owns several other tailoring companies—Bostridge and Curties and Watson, Fargerstrom and Hughes, Johns and Pegg, James and James, Wells of Mayfair and Fallan & Harvey.