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Zara founder and billionaire Amancio Ortega's net worth and journey from poor to rich

A fashion retail icon and billionaire businessman
Born in a small Spanish town
Leaving school young
Ortega opens his first factory
The first Zara store
The birth of fast fashion
Company headquarters are established
Zara expands across Spain
Inditex is officially founded
Zara goes international in Porto
Introducing Zara to France and America
Inditex takes on two new brands in Expansion
Taking Zara global
Over 600 Zara stores opened by 1997
Inditex launches new Bershka brand
Inditex HQ gets a makeover
Inditex goes public
Zara expands into homeware
Zara reaches 2,000-store milestone
Logging on in 2007
Customer-driven fashion
No office for Ortega
His own fashion
Richest person in the world in 2016
Vast real estate investment portfolio
The owner of Madrid’s tallest skyscraper
A passion for horses
Ortega never gets tired of work
Complacency is a killer
Sharing profits with employees
From railway worker's son to riches
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A fashion retail icon and billionaire businessman

Amancio Ortega is founder of the iconic Inditex fashion group and Zara fashion brand, which now operates across a staggering 93 countries worldwide. But this publicity-shy mogul came from very humble beginnings to being crowned the world's richest man back in 2016. Here's his incredible story.
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11 February 2019

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