Inditex Donates €3 Million and Clothing to Morocco Earthquake Relief Efforts

Marta Ortega, the daughter of the founder of Inditex and president of the group, and Óscar García Maceiras, its CEO, made a donation of three million euros to the Moroccan Red Crescent, through the Spanish Red Cross, to support Morocco, hit by a deadly earthquake that has already claimed nearly 3,000 lives and more than 5,000 injured. The multinational, which has also donated some 500,000 warm clothes, announced that it has contacted humanitarian organizations to provide clothes, shoes and household products to Morocco.

According to the group’s 2022 annual report, 183 suppliers made purchases in the Moroccan cluster, which has 348 factories in the supply chain and employs 94,247 people. In 2020 and 2021, the number of suppliers was 137 and 173 respectively, and the employees 91,487 and 90,363, the sector having been hard hit by the Covid-19 health crisis. The Moroccan cluster of the owner of the Zara stores is larger than those of Portugal, Cambodia, Argentina, Brazil or Spain, reports Economía Digital.

This is not the first time that Inditex has come to the aid of countries affected by an earthquake. After the earthquake that occurred in Turkey in February, a country where one of its major supply chain clusters is based, the group had also shown its solidarity.