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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 1985, Industria de Diseño Textil S.A. or Inditex was created as a holding company for Zara and its manufacturing plants. [16] In 1988, the company began expanding internationally with the opening of a Zara store in Porto, Portugal. [17] In 1990, the company-owned footwear collection, Tempe, populated in the children's section of Zara stores ...
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.
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.
Zara (game), a dice game; Zara (Milan Metro), a railway station in Milan, Italy; 158 Infantry Division Zara, Italian infantry division of World War II; Zorya, also spelled Zara, in Slavic folklore, a personification of dawn, possibly a goddess; ZARA, an acronym referring to the ports of Zeebrugge, Antwerp, Rotterdam and Amsterdam
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.
Other interpretations say that Zara is a form of the name Sara (pronounced Zara in German). Some say that it is the English form of the name Zaïre, the central character of Voltaire's 1732 play Zaïre (The Tragedy of Zara). Another derivation, unrelated to the above, is the Bulgarian name Zara (Зара) which is a diminutive of Zaharina or ...
After World War II's end, the "Libero comune di Zara in esilio" (Free city of Zara in exile) was created by the exiled Italians of Zara, as a follow-up of the province of Zara. The Italian exodus from the city continued and in a few years was almost total. The last stroke to the Italian presence was made by the local administration in October ...