Inditex, which owns Zara retailer, reported on Tuesday, when shareholders '' Assembly was held in Arteixo, in Spain, from September all the shops of the company in the Spanish market will adopt online payment system, via cell phone.
Payment by phone, via application, will be offered in stores of Spain of eight brands of the Group: Aarat, Pull & Bear, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Stradivarius, Oysho, Zara Home and Uterqüe. This alternative will eliminate payment paper receipt, said the company.
The new service aims to facilitate the purchase and return of goods. The consumer can activate the service directly from the company''s online application, adding the credit cards you want to use. The application was developed by Inditex, internally.
Board
The shareholders approved the accounts of 2015, the re-election of Flora Pérez Marcote as member of the Board of Directors and nomination of Baroness Denise Kingsmill as an independent Director.
The Baroness, according to the Spanish newspaper "El Mundo", is a lawyer, a consultant from PwC and the IAG. She enters the Council of Inditex in place of Irene Miller, who will leave the post. The Baroness was born in New Zealand, emigrated to the United Kingdom as a child. Modeled as a young man and came to parade in Paris.
The Inditex Group sum, currently, about 7000 shops in 88 countries, with online operation in 29 of them. In 2015 the group created 15,800 new jobs, with 4,120 in Spain.
The Chief Executive of the company, Pablo Isla, informor in a statement, which reviewed the revenue and profit numbers from last year, which amounted to 20.9 billion euros and to 2.89 billion euros, respectively. That means the dividend equivalent to 0.60 euros per share.
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