El Corte Inglés
Exterior of the store in Marbella (2019) | |
| Company type | Sociedad Anónima |
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| Industry | Retail |
| Genre | Department stores |
| Founded | 28 June 1940 in Madrid, Spain |
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| Headquarters | Madrid, Spain |
Number of locations | 83 (2023) |
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| Revenue | €15.783 billion (2018) |
| €258 million (2018) | |
Number of employees | 90,004 (2018) |
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| Website | elcorteingles |
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El Corte Inglés S.A. is a Spanish department store chain founded in 1940 by Ramón Areces and César Rodríguez. It is the last such remaining in Spain and Portugal, and has been a member of the International Association of Department Stores since 1998. It is the largest department store group in Europe, and the third-largest in the world.