BARCELONA – Isak Andic, the founding father of Spanish vogue model Mango, has died after struggling an accident, the corporate stated on Saturday. He was 71.
“It’s with deep remorse that we announce the sudden demise of Isak Andic, our non-executive chairman and founding father of Mango, in an accident that occurred this Saturday,” Mango CEO Toni Ruiz stated in an announcement, with out offering particulars.
Spanish information company EFE and different media shops, together with La Vanguardia newspaper, stated Andic died following a fall whereas mountaineering close to Barcelona.
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez paid tribute to Andic on social media, lauding his “exhausting work and enterprise imaginative and prescient that reworked a Spanish model into a world vogue chief.”
Andic’s household moved from Turkey to Spain when he was younger. He opened Mango’s first retailer in Barcelona in 1984 and over the next many years helped Mango develop into one in all Europe’s main quick vogue makers.
Mango has 2,700 shops in 120 markets around the globe. It set an organization report of three.1 billion euros ($3.2 billion) in gross sales in 2023. It’s at present increasing within the U.S. and plans to have 65 shops there by the tip of 2025.
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