Top 10 Most Wealthiest People of Spain

Amancio Ortega was born on March 8th, 1936. He is a Spanish fashion entrepreneur. In 2011 he was ranked by Forbes as Spain's richest man; Europe’s second richest man; and the seventh richest man in the world! He currently lives with his second wife in a discreet apartment building in the centre of A Coruña, Spain. He moved here at the age of 14 due to the job of his father, a railway worker.  Starting as a gofer in multiple shirt stores in 1972 he founded Confecciones Goa (his initials spelled backwards) which made bathrobes. Then in 1975 he opened the first store in what would grow into the enormously popular chain of fashion stores called Zara. He owns 59.28% of the Inditex group (industrias de Deseño Textil Soceidad Anónima) which includes the brands Zara, Massimo Dutti, Oysho, Zara Home, Kiddy's Class, Tempe, Stradivarius, Pull and Bear/Often and Bershka and has more than 92,000 employees. Ortega keeps a very low profile and there are no particular pictures of him. He refuses to wear a tie, and likes to dress in blue jeans and T-shirts. He is said to take a very active part in the production and design process in the company. In 2011 he made a public appearance in 2000 as part of the warm-up prior to placing his company on the stock market in 2001. It ended up making Spanish financial headlines, but he was never given an interview. This secrecy has led authors to publish books on him such as Amancio Ortega: De Cero a Zara ( From Zero to Zara).

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