Mango Founder Isak Andic Dead at 71 After Falling to His Death on Barcelona Hike
Mango Vogue Group founder Isak Andic died on Saturday, December 14, after an “sudden” accident. He was 71.
Toni Ruiz, the CEO of Mango, introduced Andic’s dying in a assertion shared by way of the model’s web site.
“It’s with deep remorse that we announce the sudden dying of Isak Andic, our non-executive Chairman and founding father of Mango, in an accident that occurred this Saturday,” Ruiz wrote. “Isak has been an instance for all of us. He devoted his life to Mango, leaving an indelible mark because of his strategic imaginative and prescient, his inspiring management, and his unwavering dedication to values that he imbued in our firm.”
The assertion added, “His legacy displays the achievements of a enterprise venture marked by success, and likewise by his human high quality, his proximity, and the care and affection that he at all times had and always conveyed to your entire group. His departure leaves an enormous void however all of us are, in a roundabout way, his legacy and the testimony of his achievements.”
Ruiz additional famous that the remaining members of the Mango staff will “be sure that [the brand] continues to be the venture that Isak aspired to and of which he would really feel proud.”
“In these extraordinarily troublesome instances we share the ache of the household as if it had been our personal,” the notice concluded.
Andic had fallen to his dying whereas mountaineering in Barcelona, in keeping with CNN. Native police instructed the outlet they obtained discover {that a} 71-year-old man fell down a ravine, greater than 320 ft within the air, close to the Collbató caves of Salnitre. Regulation enforcement models had been deployed to the realm to retrieve the physique, CNN reviews. Police sources later instructed the outlet that the physique belonged to Andic.
Spanish officers have additionally paid tribute to Andic’s dying.
“All my affection, and recognition on your nice work and enterprise imaginative and prescient, which has turned this Spanish model right into a world reference in trend,” Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez wrote.
Mango is among the largest trend retailers in Europe, with shops situated in over 120 markets.
