Amancio Ortega
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Pandemic brings a halt to Zara-owner’s Irish expansion
- Business
- November 27, 2020, 16:31
Inditex, the Spanish retailing giant that owns fashion chain Zara, was planning to capitalise on a then-revitalised Irish domestic economy with an exp(...)

Europe’s richest man gains $11bn on back of Tuesday’s stock surge
- Markets
- March 25, 2020, 08:36
Luxury-goods mogul Bernard Arnault has been hard hit by the spread of the coronavirus, losing more financially than anyone else in the world. He has (...)

Billionaire Zara founder and German funds vie for prime Dublin offices
- Commercial Property
- February 22, 2020, 06:00
The Spanish billionaire and founder of Zara, Amancio Ortega, and German real estate investment groups, Deka Immobolien, Commerz Real and Union Investm(...)

Greed: How Sony censored Steve Coogan’s new fashion-tycoon send-up
- Film
- October 7, 2019, 10:35
Every year for the past three decades, Michael Winterbottom has made a movie. Britain’s most mercurial director may have hopped between genres like a (...)

Irish profits treble for Zara owner Inditex after online sales boost
- Retail & Services
- October 31, 2018, 04:55
The world’s biggest fashion retailing group, the Zara owner Inditex, trebled its profits last year across its Irish network of 23 stores. The listed (...)

Stronger euro and late cold snap hit profit at Inditex
- Retail & Services
- March 14, 2018, 07:47
A stronger euro took its toll on Spanish retailer Inditex in its latest quarter, leading to lower profit margins at the owner of clothing chain Zara, (...)

Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary joins Forbes billionaire list
- Economy
- March 6, 2018, 19:42
High-flying Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary has become Ireland’s latest billionaire, earning himself a place on Forbes’s annual billionaire ra(...)

Hines snaps up shops, office and apartments on South King Street
- Commercial Property
- February 28, 2018, 07:15
Global property investor Hines has outbid three overseas investment companies to buy a row of shops, offices and apartments next to the Gaiety Theatre(...)

Billionaire Zara founder expected to bid on South King Street portfolio
- Commercial Property
- November 22, 2017, 06:00
One of the world’s richest men, Spanish founder of the Zara fashion chain Amancio Ortega, is among four bidders shortlisted to buy a row of shops, o(...)

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is second richest man in the world
- Technology
- March 30, 2017, 07:50
Jeff Bezos has leapt past Amancio Ortega and Warren Buffett to become the world’s second-richest person. Bezos (53) added $1.5 billion (€1.39 billion(...)