Spain’s Inditex, which owns Zara) with 5,000 branches across 74 countries, 179,000 employees (although being a Swedish company, naturally they’re referred to as colleagues) and a turnover in 2019 of just over €24 billion – slightly ahead of Iceland’s GDP.And then Covid strikes.
Helena Helmersson, a chiselled blonde with the calmest delivery of anyone currently in any kind of public life (I include the Archbishop of Canterbury), had been in the hot seat for roughly six weeks when most of the world began to shut down.
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