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Brazil is the world's most expensive country to shop at Zara

Shopping at Zara is more expensive in Brazil than in any other country, reveals the fourth edition of an annual study by Brazilian investment bank BTG Pactual. Titled “Zara Index”, the research takes the price of 12 Zara items across 44 countries, then converts local currencies to US dollars and compares them to the prices offered in the United...

Fashion

Zara launches makeup line

Fast fashion giant Zara is launching a makeup line. Set to launch tomorrow, December 5, the collection includes three lip products: a high pigmented matte lipstick called “ultramatte”, which comes in 12 shades; liquid lipsticks available in eight colors; and a “trio set” including an ultramatte lipstick, a liquid lipstick and a lip pencil. The...

Fashion

Zara and H&M might be forced to cease sourcing from Bangladesh

Fast fashion brands might need to stop sourcing from Bangladesh. Watchdog group that has been working to improve Bangladesh garment factories could close as soon as next week. After the tragic Rana Plaza disaster in 2013 in which over 1,100 garment workers were killed, a five-year accord was put in place to improve working conditions in...

CultureFeatured

Zara heiress Marta Ortega wore Valentino at her wedding

Marta Ortega, the daughter of billionaire Zara founder Amancio Ortega married Carlos Torretta on Friday in what the Spanish media is calling the “wedding of the year.” The wedding took place at the Royal Yacht Club in A Coruna, Galicia in the northwest of Spain, and was attended by an A-list crowd of Athina Onassis, Coldplay’s Chris Martin, and...

Retail

Zara to bring online sales to 106 new markets through new platform

From tomorrow, customers from 106 new countries will be able to shop Zara’s fashion online for the first time. The brand’s parent company, Inditex, has announced the launch of a new dedicated online platform (www.zara.com/ww) which will increase the number of markets where Zara is sold online to 202. Most of these new markets are in Africa and...

Report

Inditex to sell all its brands online by 2020

Inditex Chairman and CEO Pablo Isla during a meeting with journalists in Milan to mark the reopening of the global Zara flagship on Corso Vittorio Emanuele, announced that all of Inditex’s brands will be available to purchase online anywhere in the world by 2020. "We want to make our fashion collections available to all our customers, wherever...

Report

Zara’s sister brand Uterqüe opens store on China’s Tmall

Fashion and accessories label Uterqüe from the makers of Zara has launched a flagship store on Tmall in China, with an aim to establish its presence in the country. After launching online, the company plans to open brick-and-mortar stores in China. “With the rapid growth of the market for high-end goods on Tmall, more and more premium fashion...

Report

Zara’s South Korea’s competitor A Land opens first store in the U.S.

Deemed by many the ‘Korean answer to Zara’, A land has opened its first physical store in a Western market. The South Korean fashion retailer - well known in Asia as a department store format for millennial shoppers - has opened just opened a store in Brooklyn, New York. As reported by ‘Retail News Asia’, New York’s store will stock many of the...

Retail

Zara to start ship-from-store service to speed up delivery times

Several recent studies have pointed out the importance of speed in online retailing. Online fashion shops that constantly add new items to their catalogue and guarantee a fast delivery tend to sell more than those which are perceived as more stylish by consumers, but fail to convey the same sense of speed. With new products dropping every week,...

ManagementFeatured

Inditex says its integrated retail model driving sustained growth

At the Annual General Meeting (AGM) held at its headquarters in Arteixo, Inditex Chairman and CEO Pablo Isla highlighted the company’s integrated stores and online model which has enabled “sustained growth over the years”. "All of Inditex’s brands benefit from a robust integrated store and online platform. In 2017, online sales already accounted...

Fashion

Only The Brave wins counterfeit case against Zara

Diesel and Marni parent company Only the Brave (OTB) has won a preliminary court case against Inditex, for a violation of copyright design. In 2015, Renzo Rosso's group started proceedings against the Spanish group regarding the infringement by the Zara brand of the registered design of the Diesel Skinzee-Sp jeans model, and another of a shoe...

RetailFeatured

AR and VR to revolutionise how retailers connect with customers

What will the store of tomorrow look like? Although it is clear that the digital world changing the way consumers shop, new technologies, such as augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), are rapidly reshaping the retail landscape by enhancing the customer experience in-store and online. Thanks to consumers extensive use of smartphones...