The founding father of the Spanish style model Mango, Isak Andic, died Saturday in an accident in Spain, the corporate stated.
The 71-year-old businessman was mountaineering along with his household within the mountains close to Barcelona when he slipped and fell off a cliff, in response to Spanish media studies.
Andic was born in Istanbul, however his household moved from Turkey to Catalonia within the Sixties, when he was 14.
He opened Mango’s first retailer in Barcelona in 1984, and within the many years that adopted, he helped Mango change into one in every of Europe’s main quick style corporations.
Leaders pay tribute to Andic
“Isak has been an instance for all of us. He devoted his life to Mango, leaving an indelible mark due to his strategic imaginative and prescient, his inspiring management and his unwavering dedication to values that he himself imbued in our firm,” Mango CEO Toni Ruiz stated in a assertion.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez additionally paid tribute to Andic on social media, praising his “onerous work and enterprise imaginative and prescient that reworked a Spanish model into a worldwide style chief.”
Meanwhile, the pinnacle of Catalonia’s regional authorities, Salvador Illa, hailed Andic as “a dedicated businessman who, along with his management, has contributed to creating Catalonia nice and projecting it to the world.”
What is Mango?
Mango sells practically 160 million gadgets of attire and equipment every year. The firm provides each skilled and informal types.
Mango has 2,700 shops in 120 markets worldwide. It set an organization document of €3.1 billion ($3.2 billion) in gross sales in 2023. As a part of its newest strategic plan, Mango goals to have greater than 3,000 shops worldwide by 2026.
Like its most important home competitor, Inditex, the world’s largest style retailer, Mango strives to shortly adapt its manufacturing to the newest style developments whereas providing inexpensive costs.
Mango has no factories of its personal, outsourcing its manufacturing primarily to low-cost Turkey and Asia.
dh/jcg (AP, AFP, Reuters)
