MADRID (EFE) .- The Spanish businessman Amancio Ortega, founder of the textile group Inditex, matrix of Zara fashion brand, and owns the second largest fortune in the world (67,000 million dollars according to Forbes), meets today eighty years.
from humble beginnings, Ortega was born in 1936 in Busdongo, a town in the province of Leon (north), and began working at fourteen as a gofer in a shirt.
In 1963 opened its first factory womenswear and is currently the largest shareholder of Inditex, the textile group that includes brands like Zara, Pull and Bear, Massimo Dutti or Bershka.
Ortega opened the first Zara store in the Galician city of La Coruna (1975), with a business strategy based on market trends from the catwalks at a reasonable price that revolutionized the field of textile distribution.
Inditex is currently one of the largest retail groups in the world and has seven thousand stores worldwide.
the expansion of the textile group has led him to diversify its business in the automotive finance sector, builder and in and out Initial Public Offering in 2001.
Ortega left the presidency in 2011 Inditex, although it remains the largest shareholder (60% of the company) and member of the board. He is married since 2002 with Flora Pérez, with whom he has a daughter, and in 1986 was separated from his first wife, Rosalia Mera, with whom he had two children
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