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Mango founder dies aged 71 in hiking accident

14 December 2024 22:40 (UTC +04:00)

Founder of high street fashion chain Mango Isak Andic has died in an accident while hiking a mountain range near Barcelona on Saturday aged 71, APA reports citing Euronews.

According to company sources, Andic slipped and fell from a height of approximately 150 metres. His wife and son witnessed the incident, while the Catalan regional law enforcement, Mossos d'Esquadra, went to the scene of the accident with a helicopter and the mountain unit to recover his body.

Born in 1953 in Istanbul into a Sephardic Jewish family, Andic arrived in Catalonia at the age of 14, where he began to develop his ability for commerce. By 17, he was selling clothes and shoes at flea markets and later opened fashion shops, laying the foundations of what would become a business empire.