Amancio Ortega is the founder and chairman of Inditex, the largest fashion retail group in the world. Inditex owns popular clothing chains like Zara, Pull and Bear, and Massimo Dutti. Ortega began his career working in a clothing shop in La Coruña, Spain in 1963. He founded the first Zara clothing store in 1975 which proved very successful. Since then, Inditex has expanded significantly and now operates stores in over 90 countries worldwide through its eight fashion chains, including Zara, Pull and Bear, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Stradivarius, Oysho, Zara Home, and Uterqüe.