以下为中英文原文:
大家好!我是爱特思集团CEO奥斯卡·加西亚·马塞拉斯,很荣幸参加2022年中国发展高层论坛。
我非常想念在华的7000多位员工,此时无法和你们在一起,希望在卫生防疫条件允许时,我能尽快和你们相见。
新冠病毒继续沉重打击着世界各地的人们,我们正处于克服这场全球危机的关键时刻。因此,所有经济部门必须比以往任何时候都更加紧密地合作,以重获人民信任,这是商业活动的基础。
在爱特思,这一世界上最大的时尚零售商之一里,信任是建立在与200多个市场的客户进行公开对话的基础上的。这是我们高品质时尚方案的精髓所在,只有坚持我们的价值观,我们才能不断适应这种加速的变化。
自1975年公司成立以来,灵活性、创新性、团队精神和不墨守陈规是我们最重要的资产。我们努力培养这些品质。我坚信,以数字化和可持续为支柱,这些坚实的价值观将引领我们实现自身的转型。
疫情教会我们和顾客互动的新方式,客户寻求新的购物体验,以及和我们建立联系的新方式。虚拟世界和现实世界的边界已经消失,而我们才刚刚起步。当我们将能够进入到目前为止未知的虚拟世界,虚拟世界将占据更多的物理空间。
这就是为什么我们正在扩大我们的数字战略,投资更大、更多高新科技的店铺以及推动创新。例如,我们在北京王府井的旗舰店和成都太古里的旗舰店——都超过2000平方米——是我们线上线下多功能店铺的优秀案例。从我们库存统一管理的愿景开始,我们认为,在相互信任的基础上,线上线下一体化是获得独特而卓越的客户体验的最佳方式。我们现在正在探索新的创新服务,例如虚拟试衣间。
Dear all, My name is Óscar García Maceiras and I am Inditex’s CEO. It is an honor to join the China Development Forum 2022.
I really miss not being now with you all; but hope to be there soon to meet our beloved teams of over 7,000 people, once the sanitary situation allows us to do so.
The pandemic of Covid 19 has continued to punish the population around the world and we are at a key moment to overcome this global crisis. Accordingly, all the economic sectors must work closer than ever to get trust back as the basis of business activity.
At Inditex, one of the world's largest fashion retailers, trust is based on an open dialogue with customers in over 200 markets. This is the essence of our high-quality fashion proposal; and only by preserving our values we will keep adapting to this context of accelerated change.
Flexibility, innovation, teamwork and non-conformism are our most relevant assets since the company was founded in 1975. Our efforts are on fostering these attributes. I firmly believe these solid values will take us lead our own transformation, based on the pilars of digitalization and sustainability.
The pandemic has shown new ways of interacting with customers, and they demand new shopping experiences and new ways of relating to us. Borders between the digital world and the physical world have disappeared. And we are only at the beginning. The virtual world is going to occupy more physical space, while we are physically going to be able to enter virtual worlds unknown so far.
That is why we are broadening our digital strategy, investing in larger and higher-tech stores, and promoting new innovations. For instance, our flagships in Wangfujing Beijing and Taikoo Li in Chengdu -both over 2,000 square meters- are a good example of multi-functionality integrated with our online offer. Starting with a unified vision of our stock management, we conceive the integration of stores and online operations as the best way towards a unique and excellent customer experience, based on mutual trust. We are now exploring new innovative services as the virtual fitting rooms, for example.
This digital transformation is letting us advance also to a circular economy model and progress in the achievement of our strong sustainability commitments, that are embedded into all our processes and decisions. We will achieve net zero emissions in 2040 and, this year, 50% of all our garments will have our Join Life label, which differentiates our most sustainable products. We aspire to help in the transformation of our industry.
Our aim is to keep creating economic, social and environmental value. And the good news is that we are not alone in this purpose. For example, in the field of our environmental approach, we are closely cooperating with partners in China as the Chinese Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, the China Carbon Neutrality Forum or Tsinghua University, among many others.
We apply this same joint effort in our community investment model. In China, we have been working on the ground with more than 15 social entities for the last 18 years. We are constantly exploring new projects with an innovative approach. An example is the recent one with the China Women’s Development Foundation to support handcraft industry, helping them to protect and carry forward its development potential.
With no doubt, the future holds many opportunities to maximize the value generation for all our stakeholders.You can trust that all of us at Inditex will face whatever challenge with enthusiasm and responsibility, as a driving force for our whole sector.
Thank you very much.