| Zara produces over 450 million items per year | The company can design a new product and have finished goods in its stores in four to five weeks; it can modify existing items in as little as two weeks |
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| This vertical integration allows Zara to retain control over areas like dyeing and processing and have fabric-processing capacity available on-demand to provide the correct fabrics for new styles according to customer preferences | More styles: Rather than producing more quantities per style, Zara produces more styles, roughly 12,000 a year |
The specificity of the brand is that each of them has its positioning strategy and caters to different cultures and age groups.
| Zara responded to complaints from the designer by removing socks that resembled his artistic style | In August 2014, Zara received criticism for selling a toddler T-shirt for closely resembling uniforms worn by Jewish concentration-camp inmates |
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| According to the McKinsey Global Fashion Index, Inditex logged a much smaller "economic profit" last year — that's the indicator showing how much profit can be put aside without jeopardizing sustainable output parameters | Recycling in focus Inditex is among the few players that have the financial resources to push recycling technology |
While it made a brief foray into men's wear in 2017, this trial was in 2018.