Zara to open new store in South-Africa

Spanish retailer Zara will make its African debut at the newly refurbished Sandton City on November 10. The store will be located in the new extension of Sandton City, Johannesburg. The Sandton City store will have more than 2,600 square meters on one level in which the Woman, Man and Kids collections will be displayed. The launch of Zara in South Africa marks the brands entry into the 80thcountry in the world.

For the SA consumer, Zara brings with it an innovative shopping experience. Shoppers will have access to fashion on a par with the rest of the world, and not a season behind, as SA will have a collection specifically designed for the Southern hemisphere.





ZARA

Zara opened its first store in 1975, on a street in the city centre of La Coruña (NW Spain). Zara’s business model is unique, comprising each and every stage of the fashion retail business: design, manufacture, distribution and sale. Zara´s team of designers, made up of more than 350 professionals, continuously assess the customers´ preferences, wishes and demands, offering some 18,000 different models in its stores each year. The availability of the factories owned by the company, together with a wide range of highly experienced external suppliers who have a solid commercial relationship with the concept, allow Zara to manufacture a model and to have it for sale in its stores worldwide within the average term of approximately two weeks. Garments, both those manufactured in-house and those purchased from external suppliers, arrive at Zara’s logistic platforms in Spain, wherefrom they are dispatched to its stores worldwide. Clothes are dispatched twice a week, and this frequency allows a continual renewal of Zara’s fashion offer.

INDITEX

Zara is owned by the Inditex Group, one of the largest fashion retailers in the world with more than 5,200 stores worldwide. In addition to Zara, Inditex has seven other concepts: Pull & Bear, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Stradivarius, Oysho, Zara Home and Uterqüe. Inditex achieved a consolidated turnover of 12,527 million Euros in 2010. The Group’s has more than 100,000 employees worldwide.