The expansive wardrobe hub Inditex opened in Zaragoza two decades ago continues to grow, adding new compartments and expanding its footprint. The textile giant has woven the heart of its national and international logistics into the Aragonese capital. Zara, the group’s flagship brand, now distributes women’s apparel to 1,885 stores in nearly a hundred countries, underscoring the city’s central role in the company’s supply chain. A recent expansion at the Plaza industrial site added a 24-hectare facility, including a 63,356-square-foot complex on a nearby plot to centralize online-order returns. Managed by Identity Logistics, the operation began with 250 workers and signals plans to double the workforce as activity scales up.
Beyond the current scale, the multinational group under Marta Ortega is eyeing additional XXL logistics facilities in the horizon. Zara is preparing for a megastore opening in the region around the Ebro capital. All this positions Aragon as a major driver in the Spanish fashion empire, second only to Galicia, thanks to the region’s advantages and capabilities that support international expansion.
The pairing between the Galician origin and Zaragoza began in 2003 with a 120,000-square-foot facility. This site, once named the European Platform, supplied stores across the continent and has since maintained a global focus. The airport nearby, just two kilometers from the sprawling complex, has evolved into a busy gateway, second in Spain for goods, with numerous weekly flights linking textile manufacturers.
Over time, the Zaragoza complex became the main logistics hub for the fashion empire, with Zara accounting for more than 70% of turnover. Growth has been relentless, driven by ongoing expansion and a doubling of construction space. Millions of garments flow through miles of conveyors weekly, and the operation now employs over 2,000 people, 1,700 of them permanent. Staffing has quintupled from an initial 400, and momentum suggests further growth ahead.
A recent investment exceeding 80 million euros introduced a robotic wardrobe system with a hanging-clothes silo spanning 14,800 square meters and rising 30 meters high. It is the second such facility at this logistics center; the first, opened in 2013, covers 17,500 square meters at the same height.
Alliance with supplier ID Logistics
The new robotic wardrobe, nicknamed shuttle, operates as a dynamic storage system where millions of garments are organized in blocks. It began operations last summer and ran at full capacity before the Christmas season, according to a company source. The facility connects to the main warehouse via an overhead walkway and includes an auxiliary service building for goods intake and a truck parking area.
Two blocks from the European Platform, a new Inditex logistics center started operations on 4 September to receive and manage returns from the group’s e-commerce network. Handling returns is highly significant in retail, with estimates that 20% to 30% of online purchases are returned. The operation, developed by real estate company Almericost, covers 63,356 square meters on more than 100,000 square meters of land and features 476 parking spaces and 62 loading docks.
Inditex does not directly own this center; orders are managed through one of its major suppliers, French group ID Logistics, which has a strong presence in Zaragoza and operates additional warehouses for Alcampo. The labor footprint here is sizable, with about 250 workers currently, a figure expected to grow beyond 500. In addition to this, around 1,000 jobs are sustained by Inditex’s distribution ecosystem, including ThinkTextil and Lacor.
About 26 kilometers from Plaza, excavation has begun for a massive Inditex facility in the Malpica industrial zone. The project, backed by Montepino, an Aragon-based real estate logistics firm, aims to transform the former Universidad de Zaragoza site into a modern logistics hub. The largest planned warehouse will span 102,190 square meters and will become part of a broader Aragon portfolio under the Aragon General Interest Plan (PIGA), approved to accelerate investment. The group’s commitment to Zaragoza also includes a 5,000-square-meter macro store slated for the former CAI headquarters on Paseo de la Independencia, a nerve center of the Aragonese capital.