cast industry fashion founded tel aviv israel 1973 headquarters bat yam israel area served israel russia germany switzerland thailand ukraine key people aharon castro chairman gabriel rotter ceo director esther rotter ceo director shay offir executive vice president 1 products clothing cosmetics fashion accessories number of employees 1457 2016 1 website castro.com castro hebrew is an israeli clothing company specializing in men s and women s fashions . publicly traded on the tel aviv stock exchange the company is valued at 100 million us dollars . 2 in 2013 it was israel s largest fashion company . 3 the chain has 180 stores with locations in israel germany russia switzerland thailand and ukraine . 4 controlled by the castro and rotter families who together hold 67 % of the company s shares the company s sales turnover reached approximately 533 million in fiscal 2006 . 2 contents 1 history 2 spokesmodels 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit castro flagship store at dizengoff center tel aviv the company was founded by aaron castro a sephardic jew from thessaloniki greece whose family immigrated to israel when he was a young boy . 4 his mother anina was a professional dressmaker and designer who sewed for private clients . 5 in the 1950s castro opened a small corner store in tel aviv called nina named for his mother . 4 as the business grew and the basement of the store became a small factory producing ready to wear clothing the name was changed to castro . in the 1960s castro clothing was also sold at department stores such as hamashbir letzarchan and shekem . in 1965 castro moved to direct marketing with rio a factory outlet in tel aviv . 4 in 1975 castro began exporting its clothing to europe . castro s flagship store opened on dizengoff street in 1985 and branches were established all over the country . by the 1990s castro had over 1544 workers . in 1992 castro filed its ipo going public . in 1994 castro launched its cosmetics line by a licensing agreement . castro has designed the israeli team uniforms for the olympics since 1996 . castro won israel s fashion oscar . 4 in august 2000 castro opened castro men . also 2003 saw the beginning of international expansion with stores in germany . 4 in 2005 castro entered into a joint 50 % ownership of an international accessories chain diva with england based dck concessions and today has 23 stores . 2 in 2007 castro launched its castro jeans line . 6 since 2008 gal gadot has been a leading model and fashion show host for castro . 7 in 2013 castro decided to expand its women s and men s fashion collections and added a children s line . in 2014 castro opened its online store . the items on the website are sold internationally . spokesmodels edit yael abecassis gal gadot yael goldman becky griffin galit gutmann bar refaeli melanie peres see also edit israeli fashion hamashbir lazarchan honigman tnt fox adika references edit a b google finance a b c castro about us castro s new fall collection two collections actually haaretz a b c d e f castro corporate about us shining stars in israel s fading fashion industry jpost market wise israeli fashion retailer torn between daring spirit and need to please the masses haaretz external links edit castro.com v t e companies listed on the tel aviv stock exchange tase israel africa israel investments bank hapoalim bank leumi bank otsar ha hayal castro el al fox wizel frutarom housing & construction holding company israel discount bank issta magic software enterprises plastro irrigation systems strauss group tiv ta am union bank of israel walla retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title castro clothing & oldid 726222545 categories companies listed on taseclothing brandsclothing companies of israelclothing retailers of israelisraeli brandscompanies established in 1973hidden categories articles containing hebrew language text navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 20 june 2016 at 20 36 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view