The clothing company Zara was founded by Amancio Ortega Gaina. He is not only the 8th richest person in the world (according to Forbes), but also the world's greatest fashion business figure. The company was founded in 1975 in Corunna. Their mother company - Inditex Group (Industrias de Diseco Textil Sociedad Anynima in Spanish) has had little effect on Zara's unique policies - Zara had always been the innovators, and their owners usually don't care what Zara does, as long as it's profitable. Their first store on the main street of Corunna was a great success and the brand expanded to other cities in 1980s, after that to Portugal and in the end - to the UK. Now Zara has shops all over the world, and they are continuing to expand.
The company has reached its highest amounts of sales recently, since its popularity in the fashion world is tremendous. There are more than 1,500 stores in over 70 countries and new ones are opened each year. Zara's unique clothing and accessories are successfully sold to a diverse variety of costumers, crossing barriers of culture, politics and nations on their way to the customer. The team of a little less than 300 designers is outrunning the whole fashion world in terms of productivity, since it only takes two weeks for them to produce and deliver their new clothing to stores.
There are over 11,000 new clothing pieces produced every year. The company holds the productivity record that beats the adversaries' companies at least 3 times. The product assortment is changing every month in the UK, so you can visit the store each month and find that everything is new. The company's newest thing is selling children's clothing. The stores are called Kiddy's Class and they can be found in some parts of Europe; and even there the company plans to expand more.
Designing clothes for children is a completely new market. The interest in this new market has increased drastically over the past few years, since there is a tendency among celebrities to dress their children just like themselves. Of course, the ordinary parents want to do the exact same thing and make their children stand out. Zara products are a mixture of traditional and innovative clothing styles - don't waste your time, try Zara clothing today!.
