Popular Spanish fashion brand Mango has announced that it will enter the Canadian market this year in partnership with Israel-based Fox Group. About 20 stores are planned with openings as soon as this fall as well as the launch of a Canadian ecommerce site.
The Toronto market will be the entry point for Mango in Canada. A store at Toronto’s Yorkdale Shopping Centre is under construction in a space vacated during the pandemic by Victoria’s Secret. The Yorkdale Mango store will span almost 11,000 square feet in a prominent corner location facing Hudson’s Bay and Harry Rosen.
Six stores in the Toronto area are planned this year into 2023 with location announcements to follow.
Over the next decade, Fox Group plans to open at least 20 Mango stores in Canada in major markets. A mix of shopping centre and street-facing locations is expected.
In Canada, Mango secured a presence since just before the pandemic at Hudson’s Bay where it has a presence in about 50 stores.
For several years Mango has been looking at entering the Canadian market after ending a partnership with Montreal-based Tristan. In the summer of 2017, the company sent a real estate representative to Toronto to scout out the city’s top shopping centres with a goal of learning the market while also looking to secure a partnership with a local company to open licensed stores. A partner was not found at the time and now Fox Group has stepped up to lead the Canadian expansion.
In 2004, Mango partnered with Tristan and opened Mango stores in Quebec and Ontario that operated for several years — a location at Yorkdale was basically where Cartier and Bulgari now have stores. A local licensee also recently operated a Mango storefront in Quebec City according to a source that commented below in this article after it was published.
In the US, Mango operates almost a dozen stores and plans to open about 30 more over the next three years.
Tel Aviv-based Fox Group made headlines in Retail Insider in September of 2019 when we announced that it had partnered with Nike to open a flagship store at Toronto’s Yorkdale Shopping Centre. That Nike store opened in August of 2021 and spans over 25,000 square feet on two levels.
Fox Group operates 47 Mango stores in Israel and otherwise manages over 1,000 store locations for various brands globally.
Mango was founded in Spain in 1984 and has hundreds of stores around the world.
While Barcelona-based Mango makes its moves into Canada, a Canadian brand is moving into Spain. This week Vancouver-based lululemon announced that it will open its first stores in Madrid and Barcelona this year with plans for further expansion in the Spanish market as part of a global push for international growth to double revenue by 2026.
Exciting! Can’t wait to see what the Yorkdale store looks like. Great to have a dedicated Canadian website now too. Didn’t Mango have a store at CF Toronto Eaton Centre a little while back across from Apple?
Craig you meant to say re-enter Canada….they first entered in 2004!
Mango already has a store (franchise owned by an individual) in Quebec City since several years.
Their previous franchisor (Tristan) operates 6 Mango store in Montreal (Laval, Rockland, Ste-Catherine) and Toronto (Yorkdale, Eaton, Sherways) until ~2013
I used to shop at mango in the Eaton centre or sherway I swear! Mango is not new to canada
Correct, I updated the story a bit — Quebec-based Tristan ran licensed stores in Canada for a few years.