BID’s International Quality Award to Mostoles Industrial, S.A.
Móstoles Industrial
Its growth has been continuous ever since it went into business, whether in terms of business volume and innovation, market coverage and development of product lines, where the company maintains its own specific management of each business area.
At present, MÓSTOLES INDUSTRIAL S.A. employs more than 1,000 people and its premises occupy a factory surface area of more than 100,000 m2, housing several buildings for offices, production, warehouses, docks, displays, etc.
The business of MÓSTOLES INDUSTRIAL S.A. rests on the solid financial, productive and logistics pillars developed by a staff with the creativity and experience that has earned it prestigious certifications and standards approvals, in addition to the distinction of the support and confidence of our large and numerous customer base.
Móstoles Industrial, S.A. is a Spanish company which belongs to El Corte Inglés, the largest department store in Spain. With 61 shopping centres in Spain and Portugal, and more than 100,000 employees, El Corte Ingles’ annual profits exceed 700 million euros. The President of Móstoles Industrial received the International Quality Award from the President of Business Initiative Directions, Jose E. Prieto.
El Corte Inglés
El Corte Inglés
In 1934, founder Ramón Areces bought a tailor shop (which had opened in 1890) located on one of Madrid’s most central streets, calle Preciados, and made it into a limited company. In 1940 he turned the shop into the current corporation El Corte Inglés, S.A. Upon Areces’ death in 1989, his nephew Isidoro Álvarez was named his successor and quickly became one of the most powerful men in Spain. In 1995 El Corte Inglés bought out its only serious competitor, Galerías Preciados, which had entered bankruptcy.
El Corte Inglés is seen by the Spanish as a symbol of their culture. Many products and services in various local stores cater to the country’s diverse regions.
Stores tend to be very large in size and offer a wide range of products: stores may sell music, movies, portable & household electronics, furniture, hardware, books, clothes and groceries.
International expansion began in 2001 in Portugal, with a store in Lisbon, followed in 2006 with a store in Vila Nova de Gaia, near the city of Oporto, and a third store is planned. In the same year the company announced expansion outside the Iberian Peninsula: Italy will be the first country to host a store.
Offshoots of El Corte Inglés include Viajes El Corte Inglés (travel agency), Hipercor (a chain of hypermarkets), Opencor (upmarket convenience stores), Supercor (supermarkets), Informática El Corte Inglés (IT services), Sfera (competitor of the clothing chain Zara), and Bricor, a chain of DIY stores.
The primary flagship store for the chain is located in Madrid at 79, Raimundo Fernández Villaverde Street. It encompasses several buildings and carries the most comprehensive collection of designers of any large store in Spain. Designer boutiques in this store include: Hermès, Louis Vuitton, Cartier, Armani, Gucci, Loewe, Bulgari, Dior, Dior Homme, Georges Rech, Hugo Boss, Boss Woman, Ermenegildo Zegna, Burberry (men/women), Façonnable, Pal Zileri, Paul & Shark, Lacoste, Pavillon Christofle, CH by Carolina Herrera, Escada Sport, James Purdey and Sons, Lloyd’s, Purificación Garcia, Caroll Paris, Amitie, Episode, store brands (Emidio Tucci, Dustin) and many others. Also included is a branch of the Madrid based Aldeo jewelers, carrying such jewellery designers as Boucheron, Blancpain, and Hamilton.
Macy’s
Macy’s (NYSE: M) is a chain of mid-to-high range American department stores headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. Its selection of merchandise can vary significantly from location to location, resulting in the exclusive availability of certain brands in only higher-end stores. The company has designated additional regional flagships in major urban centers and operates a total of 810 U.S. stores (as of September 2008).
The company produces the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, a well known parade which has been held on the streets of New York City annually since 1924. The company also sponsors the city’s annual Fourth of July fireworks display, which began in 1976.
Macy’s was founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. On the company’s first day of business on October 28, 1858 sales totaled $11.06 (Approximately $287.37 in 2007 USD). Macy had established a dry goods store in downtown Haverhill, Massachusetts in 1851 that initially served the mill industry employees of the area. Macy moved to New York City and established a new store named “R. H. Macy & Company” on the corner of 14th Street and 6th Avenue, later expanding to 18th Street and Broadway, on the “Ladies’ Mile”, the 19th century elite shopping district, where it remained for nearly forty years.
In 1875, Macy took on two partners: Robert M. Valentine; and Abiel T. La Forge, and Macy died just two years later in 1877 from Bright’s disease.
In 1895, R. H. Macy & Co. was acquired by Isidor Straus and his brother, Nathan Straus, who had previously held a license to sell china and other goods in the Macy’s store. Isidor Straus later perished in the sinking of the RMS Titanic. In 1902, the flagship store moved uptown to Herald Square at 34th Street and Broadway. Although the Herald Square store initially consisted of just one building, it expanded through new construction, eventually occupying almost the entire block bounded by 7th
Macy's NYC
Avenue on the west, Broadway on the east, 34th Street on the south and 35th Street on the north. Exceptions are the small, pre-existing building on the corner of 34th and Broadway, which carries Macy’s famous shopping bag sign under an agreement allowing the Macy’s sign, and small pre-existing building on the corner of 35th and 7th.
The original Broadway R. H. Macy and Company Store, was built in 1901–02 by architects De Lemos & Cordes. It is sheathed in a Palladian facade, but has been updated in many details. Other additions to the west were added in 1924, 1928, and 1931, all designed by architect Robert D. Kohn. They are all in the Art Deco style. The building has been designated a National Historic Landmark. It boasts one of the few wooden escalators still in operation.
The problem of the pre-existing building also presented itself when Macys built a store on Queens Boulevard in Elmhurst, Queens, New York. This resulted in an architecturally unique round department store on 90 percent of the lot, with a small privately owned house on the corner.
