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**__MANGO: The Company__**

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 * Central E l Hangar Design Center **

At present, MANGO has over 7,800 employees, 1,850 of whom work at the Hangar Design Centre and at its Headquarters in Palau Solità i Plegamans (Barcelona). However, beyond the statistics, it is made up a young and enthusiastic team, with an average age of 28, and 85% of which is female.
 * MANGO is an internationally famous multinational which designs, manufactures and markets women’s and men’s clothing and accessories.

Hangar Design Centre, the biggest design centre in Europe, has a total surface area of 10,000 m2 and houses more than 600 professionals dedicated to creating fashion garments and accessories for women. The Design, Purchasing and Quality departments are located there.

The central offices have a total surface area of 150,000 m2 and their own structure, which comprises the departments of Image and Advertising, Property Management, Expansion, Production Control and Stores Distribution, Store Architecture and Interior Design, in addition to Logistics, Administration and IT systems.

MANGO currently has a total of 1,220 stores in 91 countries worldwide. Our expansion continues with the recent entry in countries such as Georgia, Argel and Martinica. Our latest store openings have taken place in cities of the stature of Ciudad del Cabo, Hanói, Boston, Jerusalén and Nantes.

The keys to our success can be summarised in three points: Concept, Team and Logistics System.**

=CONCEPT =
 * We can be differentiated for having a highly-defined concept. The MANGO concept is based on an alliance between a quality product, with an original design and a coherent and unified brand image. Dressing the modern, urban women for her daily needs is the formula we have analysed, adapted and applied in all the countries in which MANGO is present: it has been and remains one of the keys to our commercial success and international prestige.**

=** THE TEAM **=
 * MANGO’s greatest asset is its people. Above all, the secret lies in banking on a motivated and flexible work team, able to adapt to and promote change. Professionals who come up with ideas in order to bring MANGO closer to the largest possible number of women.**

= LOGÍSTICS SYSTEM =




 * MANGO bases its logistics on an in-house system which has developed progressively since the opening of our first store in 1984 until the present day, in which MANGO has become Spain’s second largest textile exporter.**
 * In order to develop a truly integral implantation, MANGO supplied its stocks to its franchisees under a deposit system. In 2000, MANGO completed a logistics system created with its own personality, acquiring and adapting the latest technologies at its facilities, making it possible to classify and distribute 30,000 garments per hour.**


 * Last year, MANGO put its new Dynamic Distribution Centre (CDD) into operation in Parets del Vallès (Barcelona). This 24,000 m² warehouse specialises in the distribution of folded garments, goods which until now were managed from the central offices, thus leaving the central offices to specialise in hung garments.**


 * At the CDD all processes are automated: loading, storage, invoicing and dispatch. This reduces the workload and increases the workrate of employees, thus making the CDD the most efficient in its sector, with a management system that is 5 to 7 times faster than the competition.**


 * The SLM (MANGO LOGISTICS SYSTEM) is based on speed, information and technology, its aim being to ensure that every store has the goods it needs at any moment, according to rotation speed and sales forecasts. With a production and distribution of 90 million garments a year, this guarantees the continuous renewal of goods and a production rate in accordance with market demand, both in terms of volume and variety.

This information is taken from: www.mango.com**