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Thursday, 01 September 2005 |

Amancio Ortega Gaona (born March 28, 1936) is a fashion entrepreneur,
Spain's richest man, and the founder, with his then-wife Rosalia Mera,
and chairman of the Inditex Group. He currently lives with his second
wife in a discreet apartment building in the centre of A Coruña.
Ortega was born in León and started out at age 14 as a gofer in a shirt
store in A Coruña, Galicia. In 1963 he started Confecciones Goa (his
initials in reverse), which made bathrobes. In 1975 he opened the first
store in what would grow into the enormously popular chain of fashion
stores called Zara. He is the majority shareholder of the Inditex group
(Industrias de Diseño Textil Sociedad Anónima) which includes the
brands Zara, Massimo Dutti, and Pull & Bear, among others, and has
more than 14,000 employees.
Ortega keeps a very low profile and there are practically no
photographs of him (except from one photo published at the Inditex
website). He refuses to wear a tie, and likes to dress in blue jeans.
He is said to take a very active part in the production and design
process in the company
When he made a public appearance in 2000 - as part of the warm-up prior
to floating his company on the stock market in 2001 - it made headlines
in the Spanish financial press. However, he has never given an
interview, and his secrecy has led to the publication of books such as
Amancio Ortega: DE CERO A ZARA (ISBN 8497341678).
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