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Which is your ideal Mango look for this winter? Which item of this season can’t you pass without? Which is your favourite complement amongst our autumn/winter proposals?

Upload a photo of you in our Mango Mangoshop Facebook page (or search by “mango mangoshop”) wearing a Mango look with at least one item of our ’09 autumn/winter collection or a photo of the item itself if you don’t want to be in it, and participate to win 100 EUR to spend at Mangoshop.

The winner will be the person who gets more “LIKES” in his photo until the 22/11/09.

Invite your friends to become fans of our Facebook page to win more votes!

On the 23/11/09 we will publish the name of the winner.

What are you waiting for? Go to search a photo!!

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Rules of the competition:

1.- AIM OF THE COMPETITION

MANGO-ON LINE, S.A. (Sociedad Unipersonal) (hereinafter “MANGO-ON LINE”) with registered company address in Palau-solità i Plegamans (Barcelona), calle Mercaders 9-11, Polígono Industrial Riera de Caldes is organising a competition (hereinafter the “COMPETITION”) in order to increase the number of fans of the “mango mangoshop” webpage on the social networking site Facebook (hereinafter the “Website”).

2.- REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTICIPATION

2.1 This competition will be held in all countries where MANGO products are sold through the www.mangoshop.com webpage.

2.2 The competition is open to all persons aged 16 or over, who are resident in a country where it is possible to make purchases over the www.mangoshop.com webpage and participate in accordance with the provisions established in the present Rules.

2.3 Employees of MANGO or those of companies with a commercial relationship in the current promotion (including direct family members up to the first degree of kinship) are excluded from participating in the competition.

3.- PARTICIPATION

3.1. Those persons (hereinafter the “Participants”), who in compliance with the aforementioned conditions publish a photograph on the Website of their favourite MANGO item from the 2009-2010 autumn-winter collection will be eligible to participate in the competition.

3.2. In order to upload a photograph, and subsequently take part in the aforementioned competition, the Participant must be a fan of the “mango mangoshop” webpage on Facebook. To become a fan the Participant simply has to access the webpage and use the relevant option.

3.3. The aforementioned competition will begin on the 23/10/2009 and will end on 22/11/2009. Subsequently, entries received between the 23 of October 2009 at 00 hours and the 22 of November 2009 at 24 hours (Spanish peninsular time) shall be taken into consideration.

3.4. The participant who has received most votes on the Website on the final day of the contest will be considered the winner of the prize.

3.5. Participants will obtain their votes from all those people who access the Website and vote for their item.

3.6 The photographs entered in the contest may be of the individual garment, photographs of the participants wearing the garment; photographs of the garment on a mannequin, etc.

Under no circumstances will the Participant send photographs displaying nudity or offensive or obscene actions. Breach of this rule will entail deletion from the section of the photograph, which will no longer be eligible for pre-selection.

4.- SELECTION PROCESS

4.1 In accordance with the mechanics of the competition described above, the winner of the prize will be the person whose item (photographed and uploaded onto the Website) has obtained the highest number of votes for the duration of the contest. Upon the completion of the competition the votes obtained by each participant will be counted and the winner will be determined.

4.2 In the event of a tie vote between several participants, the winner of the prize will be selected by a jury consisting of 4 persons, members of the departments of Advertising, Design and e-business of MANGO. The jury will select a single winner from among the participants who have received an equal number of votes on the Website.

4.3 The name of the winner will be published publicly on the Website on the day after the completion of the contest.

5.- PRIZES AND AWARDING OF PRIZES

5.1 The winner of the competition will receive the following prize: a voucher to the value of 100 euros to be exchanged for MANGO clothing and/or accessories through the WWW. MANGOSHOP.COM webpage.

5.2 In countries outside the “eurozone” the total value of the prize will be determined by the Exchange rate published for each currency on the www.oanda.com webpage on the completion date of the competition.

5.3 The aforementioned voucher must be exchanged before the date 22/12/2009.

5.4 Within a maximum of fifteen (15) days of the winner of the competition being established, MANGO will contact him or her via a personal message to the winner’s Facebook account.

5.5 Once the personalised message has been sent to the winner as stated in 5.4 above, the winner must expressly accept the prize within a period of fifteen (15) calendar days following the reception of said message. In order to do so, he/she must reply to the corresponding e-mail sent by MANGO-ON LINE stating he/she accepts the prize. Otherwise, the prize will be declared void.

6.- RESERVATIONS AND LIMITATIONS

6.1 Any abusive or fraudulent use of these Rules shall give rise to the participant being disqualified from the Competition. By way of example but without limitation, abuse or fraud shall be deemed to have occurred when a Participant registers on the Website using a false identity or the unauthorised identities of third parties, or tries to register on the Website on repeated occasions.

6.2 Confirmation of any of the above circumstances during the Competition shall automatically result in the Participant being disqualified, and the loss of any prize, wherever one has been awarded.

6.3 MANGO-ONLINE shall be exempt from any liability in the event that any errors exist in the data provided by the winners that prevents them from being identified.

6.4 MANGO-ON LINE shall not be liable for the services any other associated company provides the winner with as a result of the prize awarded.

6.5 The award of the prize is personal and non-transferable and shall under no circumstance be changed, altered or exchanged for cash at the winner’s request.

6.6 MANGO-ON LINE reserves the right to cancel the competition, either temporarily or definitively, for reasons in both cases of force majeure, unforeseen or unpredictable circumstances or fraud.
6.7 MANGO-ON LINE reserves the right to make whatever modifications prove necessary in order to improve the Competition when just cause or force majeure impede it from being carried out in the manner described in the present Rules.

6.8 MANGO-ON LINE reserves the right to modify the Rules of the competition at any time, either partially or totally. Similarly, it also reserves the right to annul the competition, leaving the prize void or revoking it in the event of detecting any irregularity.

6.9 Participation in the competition implies the express acceptance of its Rules.

6.10 By participating in the competition, Participants give their express consent to MANGO-ON LINE or companies within the MANGO group, to use their name and image for advertising free of charge.

6.11 Similarly, MANGO-ON LINE, its subsidiaries, associated companies, and employees of the same, shall not be liable for any responsibility derived from any damage the winner may encounter when enjoying the prize awarded by this competition.

6.12 MANGO-ON LINE and other companies within the MANGO group reserve the right to publish the full name or initials of the winner of each of the prizes in one or more national printed media (be it daily press or magazines) and/or on its webpage.

6.13 MANGO will not be liable for the indirect loss of connection or the faulty operation of the same during participation, no matter what the cause.

6.14 MANGO informs participants that given the characteristics of the Internet (such as the free access to information distributed and the difficulty and impossibility of controlling the use third parties may make of that information), it shall not be liable for the inappropriate use of this information.

7.- DATA PROTECTION

7.1 The details of the winner shall be treated in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act (Spanish Organic Law 15/1999, of 13 December) with the sole aim of managing the development of the competition and the awarding of prizes of the competition.

7.2 MANGO-ON LINE shall establish the necessary technical and organisational measures to guarantee the secure treatment of personal data in the manner prescribed in the legislation.

7.3 In accordance with Spanish Organic Law 15/1999, of 13 December, those affected may contact the database manager in writing at MANGO-ON LINE, Apartado de Correos 280, 08184 Palau-solità i Plegamans in order to exercise their rights to access, cancel or modify their data, or the registration section at www.mango.com.

7.4 The indication of the personal details of the winner shall be mandatory for the management of the prize award. Any fraudulent notification of personal details shall entitle the organisers of the present competition to disqualify the winner and take possession of the corresponding prize.

8.- JURISDICTION

For any dispute that may arise from the interpretation of the present document, the parties submit before the jurisdiction of the Courts and Tribunals of Barcelona.

Today, our Jury, that was chaired by great designer Oscar de la Renta, has announced the winner in a press conference held at Hotel Majestic in Barcelona.

The winner designer is Lee Jean Youn from Korea.

The Jury was made up of celebrities from the fashion world, including the multi-talented Nina García (Director of Marie Claire magazine in the USA), Laura Larbalestier (Head of Sales at Selfridges), Armand Hadida (manager of the prestigious Parisian boutique l’Éclaireur), Tiziana Cardini (buying director and the cool hunter of La Rinascente), Jean Jacques Picart (renowned fashion consultant), Verónica Blume (one of the most international Spanish models), Jerry Hall (renowned model of the 80s), Sandrina Fasoli and Michaël Marson (winners of the 1st Edition of the competition, whose collection is available at Mangoshop), Mariano Vivanco (fashion photographer), and, obviously, Isak Andic (Chairman) and Damián Sánchez (Managing Partner and Creative Director) from MANGO.

The day has arrived!!! Tomorrow Mango will announce the winner of El Botón-MANGO Fashion Awards 2nd Edition.

To celebrate the staging, the ten finalists of the event will exhibit their collections in Barcelona’s emblematic Paseo de Gracia from 27 April until 2 May. For one week, visitors will be able to view and appraise the innovative designs that are competing for the 300.000€ prize money to be awarded to the winner of the event.

The exhibition, located at the intersection of the streets Aragón and Rosellón, consists of 20 perspex cubicles. Each cubicle contains 4 manikins, dressed in the collections of the ten finalists.

The finalists include Jean Pierre Braganza (United Kingdom), Silvia García Presas (Spain), Josh Goot (Australia), Jaeha Alex Kim (New Zealand), the partnerships formed by Miriam Lehle & Sabina Egler (Germany), Peter Pilotto & Christopher de Vos and Aleksandar Stanic & Fiona Sinha (both resident in the United Kingdom), Jakub Polanka (Czech Republic), Jean Lee Youn (Korea) and Christian Wijnants (Belgium).