Press releases
Zara Home opens its first two Japanese stores
Zara Home continues to expand worldwide with the simultaneous opening of its first two stores in Japan, in two of the country’s major cities: Osaka, a leading financial centre in southern Japan, and Yokohama, a city within the Tokyo metropolitan region.
Inditex’s 2012 net sales rose 16%
• The Group created 10,802 new jobs in 2012, bringing its workforce to 120,314 employees.
• Investment totalled 1.4 billion euros, notably on logistics.
• Net income totalled 2.3 billion euros, an increase of 22% from 2011.
• Inditex had 6,009 stores at the end of 2012, 482 more than a year earlier. New stores were opened in 64 markets, including the initial launches in five countries: Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ecuador, Georgia and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
• The online store network continued to expand, reaching 23 markets, with noteworthy launches including Zara online stores in China in 2012 and Canada in 2013.
• Zara is set to launch its online store in the Russian Federation during the Autumn/Winter 2013 season.
• The Board of Directors will submit a proposal at the Annual General Meeting to increase the dividend by 22%, to a total of 2.20 euros per share.
• Store sales in local currencies, adjusted for the calendar effect of an extra trading day in February 2012 due to the leap year, have increased by 12% from 1 February to 11 March 2013.
Inditex acquires the franchise of Zara in Finland
The chain had been operating as a franchise through the Stockmann Group