industria de diseno textil sa booked slower sales growth in the fiscal years final quarter amid a covid19 outbreak though it said earnings surged and performance has recovered strongly at the beginning of the new fiscal year earnings before interest taxes depreciation and amortization rose 58 to 718 billion euros 787 billion in the year to endjanuary the spanish fashion retailer better known as inditex said wednesday total sales rose 36 to eur2772 billion in the year and the company made a net profit of eur324 billion it said the company returned to sales growth in the second half of the year versus the same period of 2019 though the pace slowed in the fourth quarter from the 10 twoyear rise in the third as the omicron variant forced new restrictions inditex said in the final quarter sales came to eur839 billion less than the eur861 billion analysts had expected according to factset performance in the first part of the new year has recovered strongly thanks to better store productivity and online growth with sales 21 higher than in the prepandemic period inditex said the company said it will propose a dividend of 93 european cents a share for 2021 33 higher than the previous figure