Amancio Ortega, founder of Inditex, is back on the list Forbes of the 10 richest people in the world. Her fortune is valued at $148 billion, according to the latest update of the billionaires list published by the magazine.

Inditex achieved record profits in 2025, surpassing the €6 billion mark for the first time. The textile group earned a total of €6.22 billion in its last fiscal year, the fourth with Marta Ortega as president. This figure represents a 6% increase compared to the previous year and marks its fourth consecutive year of record results. The Galician giant, led by Óscar García Maceiras, also saw sales grow last year, reaching unprecedented figures of €39.864 billion, a 3.2% increase compared to 2024, with a "very satisfactory" performance. This positive performance, at constant exchange rates, was replicated in all the geographical areas where the group operates. More than 50% of sales come from Europe, excluding Spain, which accounts for approximately 16%. Zara, its flagship brand, recorded €28.051 billion in net sales. It was followed at a considerable distance by Bershka (€3.286 billion), Stradivarius (€3.002 billion), Pull&Bear (€2.546 billion), Massimo Dutti (€2.019 billion), and Oysho (€960 million).

Until 1999, no one had ever seen his face in a newspaper. Some even doubted his existence. His birthplace wasn't entirely clear, and some articles even changed his name to Armando. Spain's richest man has managed to be, at the same time, the most mysterious.

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South African tycoon and Donald Trump advisor Elon Musk has regained the top spot among the world's richest people, according to the list published Tuesday by the magazine Forbes, which attributes his net worth to €316.4 billion. This means his fortune has increased by 75% compared to 2024, and, in fact, at 53 years old, he has already accumulated more wealth than any other person who has ever appeared in the publication. In this sense, Forbes He highlights that the explosion in Musk's wealth coincides with "a year in which he consolidated his political influence," with the US president appointing him to command the DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency).

The ARA (Spanish National Association of Tourists) sought to take an x-ray of the current state of the Valencian towns affected by the DANA (Dana) on October 29th, now that such an emblematic moment as the Falles festival is approaching. The result is a collection of witnesses who paint a very harsh picture, with the wounds, both material and human, still raw, but also with a fierce will to move forward and overcome the tragedy. Four and a half months later, the streets are no longer muddy, it's true, but most of the ground floors are still closed or, at best, under construction. There is a constant struggle to return to normality and climb out of the hole into which hundreds of thousands of people were forced by a combination of incompetence on the part of the authorities and a natural disaster of unknown proportions.

The anonymity of the richest woman in Spain lasted 45 years. That's how old Sandra Ortega Mera was when her mother (Amancio Ortega's first wife, with whom he founded Zara parent company Inditex) died unexpectedly of a stroke during a holiday in Menorca. When she wen to the morgue, photographers and television cameras surrounded her and offered the first glimpse of a woman with short red hair who has amassed a fortune of over than €5.6bn, according to Forbes.

Spanish businessman Amancio Ortega has slipped from sixth to eleventh place in the list of the world's richest people in the world, which is compiled annually by magazine Forbes, despite the fact that his wealth has increased from $55.1 billion to $77 billion in the last year. The founder of fashion group Inditex came to be the fourth richest person on the planet in 2017, with $71.3 billion, but fell back to sixth position a year later, where he had remained until now.