Inditex Sets 2026 Completion Date for New Distribution Center

Inditex has set a date for the start-up of its macro logistics center in Zaragoza. It will be in June next year, according to El Periódico de Aragón on Thursday. Located in the Malpica industrial estate, it began operations on a trial basis with an initial workforce of 250 workers, of the 1,500 that the fast fashion giant plans to hire in the medium term.

The initial investment of the Inditex center in Zaragoza, which is being built on the site of the former Universidad Laboral of the city, is around €100 million, but will reach €600 million when the macro-plant is operating at full capacity. This is the company’s second logistics center in Zaragoza, together with the one it has in the Zaragoza Logistics Platform (Plaza).

Inditex has already been carrying out the first operations on a trial basis since last July, and began shipping its products to stores in mid-August. The work is being carried out on time, so that it could be completed within the next six months.

The complex will cover more than 2,400,000 square feet and will include a 215,400-square-feet ironing plant. Zaragoza is thus at the center of the textile giant’s logistics model, concentrating two of the five Zara mujer distribution plants in the world. The other three are in Arteixo (A Coruña), Meco (Madrid) and Lelystad (The Netherlands).

Inditex builds a logistics center of more than 2,400,000 square feet, with an ironing plant of more than 215,400 feet in area

The main building is located in a 1,528,475 square feet warehouse. It will have six robotized silos for automatically storing hanging garments and packages, as well as 113 loading docks and five elevated walkways.

The construction of the complex’s services building will be completed in the next few months, with a canteen, changing rooms, medical service and gymnasium, covered parking and a green area outside.

The construction of the center is being carried out in parallel with another key project for the company: the construction in Sant Adrià del Besós (Barcelona) of a new corporate headquarters to house the central offices of Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Oysho and Lefties. The complex will leave the office space currently occupied by the chains in Tordera (65 kilometers from Barcelona), and could house more than a thousand Inditex workers.

In March of this year, Inditex announced its investment roadmap for 2025, which included the completion of the logistics investment plan initiated last year, as well as a part for the digitization and integration of the store park.

For this year’s fiscal year, Inditex foresees up to 1.8 billion of ordinary investments that will be mainly allocated to the improvement of the commercial space, technological integration in stores and the improvement of the online platform.

A new pace for Inditex

Inditex closed the first half of the year with a 1.6% increase in sales and a 0.8% increase in net income, a performance that was in line with that recorded in the first quarter of the year, with the lowest quarterly growth since the pandemic. Inditex’s sales in this period amounted to €18.357 billion.

For yet another quarter, the evolution of exchange rates had an impact on the performance of Zara’s owner. Thus, sales at constant exchange rates rose by 5.1% in the first half of the year. The group has pointed out that it has had a “satisfactory” evolution both in store and online.

The group’s gross operating profit (ebitda), meanwhile, reached €5.114 billion, an increase of 1.5% compared to the first half of 2024. The company’s ebitda rose by 0.9% to €3.572 billion.