Ownership

Who owns Zara and Massimo Dutti

Both belong to Inditex. The group discloses a great deal — but not the one thing most people assume it does.

ES Last checked 27 July 2026 3 linked sources

Brands we have documented in this group

BrandCategoryPrice bandOrigin
Zara Clothing, accessories €€ Spain
Massimo Dutti Clothing €€ Spain
Pull&Bear Clothing Spain
Bershka Clothing Spain
Stradivarius Clothing Spain

This table lists the brands documented at cromavo, not the group’s full portfolio — the group publishes that itself, linked in the sources below. Checked 27 July 2026.

Massimo Dutti is not an Italian house

The name suggests Milan; the company is Spanish. Massimo Dutti belongs to Inditex, the Galicia-based group that also owns Zara. It is one of the more persistent misreadings in fashion, and it matters, because people pay a premium for what they take to be Italian production.

Ownership here is well documented — the group states its brands itself. The interesting question is a different one: what does Inditex actually publish about where its clothes are made?

A disclosure that stops one step short

Inditex publishes the list of wet-process facilities — dyeing, tanning, washing, printing — which are the environmentally heaviest steps in textile production. That is real disclosure, and more than many competitors offer.

What it does not publish is a full public factory list. The complete supply chain goes to IndustriALL Global Union, a trade union federation, rather than to the public. That is a defensible arrangement and it is not nothing — but it is not the same as a list you can open yourself, and our directory records the difference rather than filing every large group under one label.

Sharing a supply chain with a union is not the same as publishing it. We record which of the two a group actually does.

Brands

Sources

3 in total · archived internally
  1. Markenübersicht des Konzerns (Eigenangabe) — Inditex Read 27 July 2026
  2. Rückverfolgbarkeit der Lieferkette — veröffentlichte Nassprozess-Betriebe — Inditex Read 27 July 2026
  3. Lieferanten — vollständige Lieferkette wird mit IndustriALL Global Union geteilt — Inditex Read 27 July 2026

Questions readers ask

Is Massimo Dutti Italian?

No. Despite the name, Massimo Dutti is a brand of the Spanish group Inditex, which states it among its own brands. The name is a brand invention, not an indication of origin.

Does Inditex publish a factory list?

Partly. The group publishes its wet-process facilities — dyeing, tanning, washing, printing. The complete supply chain is shared with IndustriALL Global Union rather than published openly, so there is no full factory list you can open yourself.

Who owns Zara?

Inditex, the same group that owns Massimo Dutti, Pull&Bear, Bershka and Stradivarius. Zara is the group’s largest brand.