A pedestrian carrying a shopping bag from a Zara fashion store in Gothenburg, Sweden. Zara, owned by Spanish fashion conglomerate Inditex SA, seems to have been targeted after Chinese social media users noticed several of its Hong Kong stores were closed on Sept 2. — Bloomberg
Fast-fashion giant Zara said store closures in Hong Kong on Sept 2 weren’t related to ongoing anti-Beijing protests in the city, after speculation on Chinese social media that the retailer’s employees were supporting the demonstrators.
“Zara has never made any comments or undertaken any actions related to a strike in Hong Kong,” the company said in a post on its Weibo account on Sept 2. “Zara does not back a strike and supports ‘one country, two systems’,” the post said, referring to a general strike called by unions as part of the protests, and China’s policy for governing Hong Kong.
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