Goodbye to the primary Zara in historical past: Inditex will shut the shop on Juan Flórez road in A Coruña | Companies | EUROtoday

Historic motion within the Inditex business community. The Galician textile group will go away the Zara retailer situated on Juan Flórez Street in A Coruña on the finish of this month, as introduced The Voice of Galicia and make sure the corporate. This is the primary retailer that the model opened nearly 51 years in the past, and whose dimensions, barely 300 sq. meters, have grow to be outdated inside the firm’s present business proposal.

The institution will shut its doorways lower than a 12 months after celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its opening, and by extension, the beginning of Zara. The retailer was opened on May 9, 1975, being the primary level of sale within the historical past of what’s now the Inditex group. “The opening of this establishment marked a before and after in the trajectory of a company until then dedicated to textile manufacturing and distribution,” the corporate itself stated in its fiftieth anniversary documentation.

On the event of those celebrations, Inditex ceased business exercise within the retailer and turned it into a short lived museum, remodeling its inside right into a small-scale A Coruña gallery. In it, Zara included a show of restricted version items and objects to commemorate the anniversary, along with vogue, artwork and tradition magazines revealed since 1975, and the set up of a cafeteria.

There are at present 11 individuals working on the Juan Flórez location, who’ve been supplied relocation to 3 shops in A Coruña. The largest one inside the metropolis is Compostela Street, simply 400 meters away, the place Inditex plans to include its cafeteria idea, Zacaffé.

This location, just like the one within the Marineda City buying heart, far exceeds 2,000 sq. meters. For years, Inditex has been creating a method based mostly on opening giant shops and shutting smaller ones. The goal of getting bigger shops is none apart from to include, in the identical area, its proposals for males, girls, kids and the brand new technological capabilities that it has been creating within the factors of sale.

In this context, Zara, because the group’s flagship, has been the one which has skilled the best diploma of transformation, incorporating ideas comparable to El Apartamento, extra aimed toward a premium vogue proposal; or just like the Zacaffé espresso outlets themselves.

With the tip of the rental contract, this January 31, Zara will shut its doorways on the Juan Flórez location. The property doesn’t belong to Pontegadea and was rented to a 3rd get together.