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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. [3] [when?] The company focuses on retailing various housewares. [4] The headquarters of Zara Home is located in A Coruña, Spain.
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'.
In 2007, Inditex launched the Zara Home online retail store. [45] Zara joined the e-commerce marketplace in September 2010, launching websites in Spain, the UK, Portugal, Italy, Germany and France. [46] [47] In November 2010, Zara's online presence grew to include Austria, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. [48]
It is part of the Spanish Inditex group (which also owns brands such as Zara, Massimo Dutti, Pull&Bear, Oysho, Uterqüe, Stradivarius and Zara Home). [2] The company was created in April 1998 as a new store and 'fast-fashion' concept, aimed at a young target market. As of January 2022, Bershka has over 852 stores in 74 countries.
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]
In 2009, Zara was part of the Inditex group (Industrias de Diseño Textil Sociedad Anónima), of which Ortega owned 59.29%, and aside from over 6,000 stores included the brands Zara, Massimo Dutti, Oysho, Zara Home, Kiddy's Class, Tempe, Stradivarius, Pull and Bear, Bershka and has more than 92,000 employees. [10]
The chain was established in 1991 due to the diversification of Inditex's commercial objective, which at that time had only Zara stores. It started out as a brand only for the male public, but after a few years of its creation, it introduced a collection for girls in 1998 that has equaled the male line in sales.
Massimo Dutti (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmasimo ˈðuti]) is a Spanish premium clothing retailer specializing in cashmere and wool products, established in 1985 and owned by Spanish multinational company Inditex, the parent company of Zara, Pull&Bear, and other brands.