Turnover: 13.7 million EUR (2022)

Country: France

  • Gardanne-based Garella women's ready-to-wear group
  • Upscale positioning
  • Five brands.
    • Indies, the most ethnic, targets urban women aged 25 to 45
    • Batiste, a baroque line inspired by 18th- and 19th-century military garments
    • Bleu Blanc Rouge is aimed at "cosmopolitan" French and foreign women aged 40 to 60
  • Garella's customers are multi-brand stores
  • Garella sells in China and Japan, the Middle East, Spain and Italy.
  • The group is starting to develop its own boutiques.

News

The Indies and Bleu Blanc Rouge brands seek their rebound in Asia 24/05/2023

  • High-end ready-to-wear group Garella changes hands
  • Jean-Brice Garella, 51, sells his company to Anne de Gravelaine and Philippe Rigal, with backgrounds in perfumery and finance
  • Group renamed Groupe Indies.
  • Sales 2022: 13.7 million euros.
  • Foreign market accounted for up to a third of business, particularly in South-East Asia.
  • 80 employees. 15 directly-operated boutiques, 25 corners and over a hundred multi-brand stores in France and 5% internationally in some twenty countries.
  • One third of sales generated online.

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