Inditex opens Tempe store under `for&from`

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Inditex opens Tempe store under `for&from`

Tempe, the company that designs, manufactures and distributes Inditex`s footwear and accessories, opens to trade in Allariz (Ourense) a store which will sell footwear and accessories from previous seasons of all of Inditex`s commercial formats at affordable prices. This store is part of the `for&from` project, which seeks the labour integration of disabled people within the Inditex Group. This is the fourth store – and the second one in Galicia – of the `for&from` project. Just as with the first `for&from` store opened in Allariz (from the Massimo Dutti format), Inditex has worked in partnership with the Confederación Galega de Persoas con Discapacidade, owner of the Special Employment Centre in Integratex, which manages the Massimo Dutti store and which will also work for Tempe. The store staff is made up of five people with a certain degree of physical or intellectual disability. Staff recruitment has been incumbent on COGAMI, which is familiar with the labour requirements of disabled people. The store staff has undergone Inditex`s store staff training process with excellent results. Massimo Dutti, with a long experience in its `for&from` store in Allariz, has assisted Tempe both in training activities, and in the design of the stores, a process encompassing different activities aimed at improving the accessibility to the store and at facilitating the employees`s work. Thus, the doors are of a special dimension to allow the entrance of people in wheelchairs; the store has lavatories for disabled people and the labelling has been designed with a code of colours and geometric shapes to enable the distinction between masculine and feminine products to help the staff. Located in rúa Fonteiriña, opposite Massimo Dutti`s `for&from` store, this new store is part of the network of urban outlets promoted by Allariz Town Hall to foster commerce within its historical centre of town. The Allariz Town Hall has shown its full cooperation with the project, speeding up the required formalities to open the store. The number of visitors that the town receives every year, the excellent results achieved by the Massimo Dutti store already opened there and the sale of products from the Inditex formats at affordable prices ensure that the store gets enough circulation to meet the goals of the project, since in addition to fostering the entry of vulnerable sectors into the labour market, it shows that these are feasible business projects. `For&from` Project: eight years experience `For&from` project began in 2001, with the first contacts between Fundació Molí d`en Puigvert and Massimo Dutti, a format of the Inditex Group located in Tordera (Barcelona). Seeking to explore new formulas for the social and labour integration of vulnerable groups and individuals who find it hard to get a job, a Massimo Dutti store was launched on 28 April 2002 in Palafolls that employs people with severe mental disorders. More Inditex News...More Fashion News - Spain...12

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