Retail company Mango to invest €27 million to enlarge its world headquarters, based in Greater Barcelona

Barcelona (ACN).- The Catalan multinational company Mango announced on Wednesday a €27 million investment to enlarge its world headquarters, which are located in Greater Barcelona’s town of Palau-solità i Plegamans, north of Barcelona city. Mango will build, starting this summer, a new building next to the company’s main offices. It will host the all the staff in charge of Mango’s new lines for teenagers and mature women – respectively called ‘Rebels’ and ‘Violeta’ – as well as the company’s brand for men ‘H.E. by Mango’. The new facility will add 17,000 square metres to the multinational world headquarters, reaching a total surface of 41,849 square metres. It will be connected to Mango’s main design centre known as ‘Hangar’, which will keep the lines ‘Touch’, ‘Kids’ and ‘Sport&Intimates’.

Mango is also building a €360 million logistic park in Greater Barcelona

The investment was announced on Wednesday and is to be added to the €360 million plan to build the retail company’s new logistic park in an area just a few kilometres away from Mango’s headquarters. The construction work for this huge logistic park started in February in the town of Lliçà d’Amunt but its final phase will not be completely finished for 10 years. Mango’s logistic park will create more than 1,500 direct jobs.

Mango, which is headed up by Isak Andic, will start expanding its world headquarters based in Palau-solità i Plegamans, along with the construction of its new logistics park in a neighbouring town. With the €27 million investment, the headquarters of the company will occupy 41,849 square metres over 3 buildings.

2,600 shops in 107 countries

Mango ended 2012 with a turnover of €1.691 billion, which shows sales without taking VAT into account. The sales correspond to Mango’s own shops as well as the wholesales made by the Catalan company to its franchises. Last year’s turnover represented a 20% increase compared to 2011. Mango is a highly internationalised company and sales outside Spain account for 84% of its turnover. During 2012, the company opened 197 shops and retail corners worldwide, 180 of which were outside Spain. By the end of last year, Mango had 2,600 shops in 107 countries, with more than 12,000 employees all over the world.