
INTERNATIONAL - For nearly a decade, Tata Group has been Inditex’s partner running Zara stores in India.
Now, the country’s largest conglomerate is building its own apparel empire as trend-focused as Zara - but at half the price. Its retail arm, Trent, has fine-tuned its local supply chain to deliver “extreme fast fashion” which can get runway styles to customers in just 12 days, the same compressed timeline that’s turned Inditex into a $90billion (R1.3trillion) empire.
Zara, the world’s largest apparel retailer, is known for its lightning-quick product turnarounds and bringing new designs from the drawing board to store shelves in weeks.