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The founding father of vogue large Mango, Isak Andic, died unexpectedly in an accident on Saturday, the corporate introduced in a press release.
Andic served as the corporate’s non-executive Chairman, in accordance with the assertion signed by Mango CEO Toni Ruiz.
“He devoted his life to Mango, leaving an indelible mark because of his strategic imaginative and prescient, his inspiring management and his unwavering dedication to values that he himself imbued in our firm,” learn the assertion.
Catalonia’s regional police advised CNN they had been notified on Saturday afternoon {that a} 71-year-old man had fallen down a ravine of greater than 320 toes within the space of the Collbató caves of Salnitre, a well-liked vacationer vacation spot close to Barcelona.
A supply in Catalonia with information of the occasions advised CNN that the sufferer was Isak Andic.
Police items had been deployed to the caves and had been capable of retrieve the physique, the police additionally stated.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez reacted to Andic’s demise, saying “All my affection, and recognition in your nice work and enterprise imaginative and prescient, which has turned this Spanish model right into a world reference in vogue,” Sanchez wrote on X.
Catalonia’s regional president, Salvador Illa, wrote on X that Andic had left “an indelible mark on the Catalan and international vogue sector,” and praised his work for contributing to “making Catalonia nice and projecting it to the world.”
Andic had a web price of 4.5 billion {dollars}, in accordance with Forbes. He based the Mango model in Barcelona, Spain in 1984.
Mango is one in all Europe’s main vogue teams, in accordance with the corporate’s web site, with shops in over 120 markets. In 2023, the corporate’s gross sales surpassed 3.2 billion {dollars}.
The firm at the moment operates 40 shops within the US and plans to open 20 extra subsequent yr, in accordance with Mango’s web site.
