Inditex Commits to Selling All Its Brands Online Worldwide by 2020The announcement was made on the eve of Zara’s Milanese flagship reopening.

[Collection]MILAN — Inditex has set the goal to make all its brands available for online purchase anywhere in the world by 2020. The company chairman and chief executive officer, Pablo Isla, made the announcement on the eve of the reopening of Zara’s first and biggest Italian store, located in Milan. “We want to make our fashion collections available to all our customers, wherever they are in the world, even in those markets which do not currently have our brick-and-mortar stores,” said Isla. The group counts eight labels under its umbrella, including Zara, Pull & Bear, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Stradivarius, Oysho, Zara Home and Uterqüe. Inditex operates 7,448 stores globally in 96 markets and operates online in 49 markets. Isla also highlighted that all of the group’s brands will adopt the integrated stock management system by 2020 in all the countries in which there is a physical store presence. This system enables the fulfillment of online customer orders with store inventory, through radio frequency identification technology (RFID). This is already fully deployed at Zara and Uterqüe globally, and is being rolled out across the rest of the brands. In particular, the integrated stock management system will debut in Italy starting Thursday in the revamped Milanese flagship. First established

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