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The Inditex Group reported revenue of €11.94 billion in the first-half (1 February - 31 July 2021), representing growth of 49% year-on-year, or 53% growth in local currencies. Net profit amounted to €1.27 billion, compared with a loss of €195 million in the first half of 2020.

The Group’s revenue, profit and cash generation in the second quarter 2021, between May and July reached historic highs for the period.

Garment workers making clothes for international brands in Karnataka, a major clothing production hub in India, say their children are going hungry as factories refuse to pay the legal minimum wage in what is claimed to be the biggest wage theft to ever hit the fashion industry. (...)

The Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) estimates the total amount of unpaid wages so far to be more than £41m. (...)

Karnataka is one of India’s garment-industry heartlands, with thousands of factories and hundreds of thousands of workers producing clothing for international brands including Puma, Nike, Zara, Tesco, C&A, Gap, Marks & Spencer and H&M. (...)

Nova said the “indifference and inaction” of all the brands sourcing clothing from the region about the situation facing its mostly poor, female workforce was “shameful and cruel”.

Sofia recycling a white dress by Inditex

June 19, 2020: Contemporary flamenco performance at Teatros del Canal in Madrid (1, 2, 3).

July 22, 2020: Visit to Extremadura