{"id":162184,"date":"2019-09-11T12:23:45","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T12:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/zara-owner-hails-sales-boost-from-hot-weather-and-polka-dot-dress\/"},"modified":"2021-08-12T14:04:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T14:04:18","slug":"zara-owner-hails-sales-boost-from-hot-weather-and-polka-dot-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/zara-owner-hails-sales-boost-from-hot-weather-and-polka-dot-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"Zara owner hails sales boost from hot weather and polka-dot dress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zara owner<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/intelligence\/inditex\"> Inditex<\/a> has said sales surged during the first half of the year as the high street fashion brand was bolstered by warm weather and the<strong> success of its highly popular black &amp; white polka-dot dress.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Indetix, the world\u2019s largest clothes retailer, said <strong>sales jumped 7% to \u20ac12.8 billion (\u00a311.5 billion)<\/strong> in the six months to July as it shrugged off the tough retail market conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish group said <strong>like-for-like sales during the period increased by 5%,<\/strong> while earnings before interest and tax rose by 8% to 3.4 billion euros (\u00a33.04 billion).<\/p>\n<p>The company, which had <strong>7,420 stores across the world at the end of July<\/strong>, said it benefited from the roll-out of Zara online to new locations such as Brazil and the UAE.<\/p>\n<p>The group, which also includes Pull &amp; Bear, Massimo Dutti, Stradivarius and Bershka, has shut smaller stores to <strong>focus on large spaces in prime shopping areas<\/strong> and rapidly growing online sales.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts highlighted that the success of <strong>Zara\u2019s polka-dot dress, which was so popular that it had its own Instagram account,<\/strong> reflected that the brand\u2019s product ranges were continuing to be welcomed by UK customers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-128489 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zara-dress-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Zara\" width=\"469\" height=\"704\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>\u00a339.99 dress gained cult status<\/strong> as a must-have item during the summer, selling out in numerous UK stores.<\/p>\n<p>Inditex added that <strong>strong sales have continued into the second half of the year,<\/strong> with sales across both stores and online rising 8% in the past six weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Pablo Isla, executive chairman of Inditex, underlined the \u201cstrong first-half performance reflected in these figures, with <strong>like-for-like growth across all brands and geographies<\/strong>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cThe investments we have made in the stores, as well as in logistics and technology, have been key elements in the development of our customer-focused integrated online and offline store platform.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":135609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10494],"tags":[10217,11376,10216],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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