Israeli fashion chain founded in 1973 in Tel Aviv by Aaron Castro, growing out of his mother's dressmaking business (a small shop called 'Nina'); now Israel's largest domestically owned fashion retailer, with roughly 180 stores including several Jerusalem locations.
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Castro was founded in 1973 by Aaron Castro, a Sephardic Jew whose family immigrated to Israel from Thessaloniki, Greece, when he was a child. The company's roots go back to the 1950s, when his mother, Anina, a professional dressmaker who sewed for private clients, and Aaron opened a small corner store in Tel Aviv named 'Nina' after her. As the business grew and added a basement workshop producing ready-to-wear clothing, it was renamed Castro. The company began exporting to Europe in 1975 and went public on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in 1992. Castro has designed Israel's Olympic team uniforms since 1996 and, by 2013, was Israel's largest domestically owned fashion company, with around 180 stores in Israel and additional locations in Germany, Russia, Switzerland, Thailand and Ukraine. The company has remained under continued family connection and expanded beyond its original menswear-and-womenswear base into a broader accessories offering. Castro's headquarters is now located in Bat Yam, near Tel Aviv. The chain operates multiple stores in Jerusalem as part of its national Israeli retail network, in malls and shopping streets across the city.
Storefronts in Jerusalem for Fox, Israel's largest clothing chain, tracing to Trico Fox, founded 1942; sells casual-basic fashion for women, men, children and babies across its Israeli and international store network.
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Fox is Israel's largest fashion retail chain, tracing its roots to Trico Fox Ltd., founded in 1942. The company went public on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in 2002 and became Fox-Wizel Ltd., now trading as FOX on TASE. Fox positions itself around casual, everyday basics across women's, men's, children's and baby clothing, and has grown from its domestic base into an international chain with several hundred stores across roughly ten countries, including Russia, Singapore, China, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Thailand, Panama and the Philippines, alongside its home Israeli market.
Israel's first fashion house, founded 1954 by Ruth Dayan as a government employment project training new immigrants in weaving and embroidery. It went bankrupt in 1994 after losing state funding, then was revived in 2014 by designer Sharon Tal.
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Maskit was Israel's first fashion house, founded in 1954 by Ruth Dayan as a Ministry of Labor employment project intended to give new immigrants agricultural work, which instead revealed pools of skilled weavers and embroiderers. The label built its identity on traditional craftsmanship, and at its height was carried by Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue, with ten stores in Israel and one in New York, including a multi-floor flagship in Jerusalem. Government funding ended in 1970, and the company went bankrupt in 1994. Two decades later, designer Sharon Tal spent roughly two and a half years working with Dayan to track down former employees and archived pieces before relaunching the brand.
Israeli fashion chain founded 1993 by Eli Berkowitz and Yossi Brosh, with Serge Deri joining as CEO in 1994; roughly 95 stores nationwide, including Jerusalem locations, selling women's and men's fashion and accessories.
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Renuar is a national Israeli fashion retail chain founded in 1993 by Eli Berkowitz and Yossi Brosh; Serge Deri joined a year later and has served as group CEO since. The company, headquartered in Rishon LeZion, operates the Renuar and Twentyfourseven store brands, selling clothing, footwear, jewelry, bags and accessories at around 95 points of sale across Israel. By 2016 it ranked as roughly the fifth-largest fashion chain in the country. Jerusalem is one of many cities where Renuar operates branches, including a location in the Mamilla shopping area near the Old City.
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