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.

2025 is a record-breaking year for the Spanish stock market. For the first time, five listed companies have surpassed a valuation of €100 billion. These include four companies from the Ibex 35, the country's main stock market index: Inditex (€175.218 billion), Banco Santander (€148.347 billion), Iberdrola (€122.466 billion), and BBVA (€114.055 billion). Airbus (€155.430 billion) joins them on the continuous market, a market that is setting all-time records and is one of the most profitable in the world, according to the latest report from Bolsas y Mercados (BME), the Spanish stock exchange operator. Together, these five companies represent almost half the total value of the 130 companies on the continuous market, three-quarters of which are concentrated in the Ibex 35.

The highest-paid executives at Spain's 40 largest companies earned 111 times the average salary of their employees, who would have to work for a century to earn what these executives earned in a single year. This is according to the latest edition of the report. Wage gaps in large companiesA report published this Tuesday by Oxfam Intermón delves into the "abysmal" wage gap perpetuated by the country's largest corporations. Despite the growth of the Spanish economy in recent years—GDP has rebounded by an average of 4.74% since 2020—the organization criticizes the fact that this prosperity has not reached the pockets of many citizens. Almost one in three believe their current income does not allow them to live a decent life. In fact, half of all salaried workers earn at most 1.5 times the national minimum wage (SMI), which is currently €1,184 gross per month, paid in 14 installments. Although employees of large companies earn 63% more than the national average, the report emphasizes that it is in these companies where pay disparities skyrocket, "due to the exorbitant salaries of their top executives."

Inditex, the group with brands such as Zara, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, and Stradivarius, was one of the stars of Wednesday's trading session, with results exceeding expectations and helping to propel the Ibex 35 to a record high of 16,585.70 points. The textile group, whose shares rose 8.86% to €53.42, closed the first nine months of its fiscal year (February to October) with a net profit of €4.622 billion, a 3.9% increase compared to the same period last year. At the close of trading, Inditex's market capitalization, which remains the top performer on the Ibex, stood at €165.36956 billion. The company's sales increased by 2.7% to €28.171 billion, driven by "satisfactory performance" in both its physical stores and online. In this regard, the group highlighted the 4.9% increase in revenue for the third quarter (August to October), reaching €9.814 billion. As for the gross operating profit (EBITDA) for the first nine months, it rose 4.2% year-on-year to €8.303 billion.

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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The board of directors of Inditex has appointed Marta Ortega, daughter of company founder Amancio Ortega, as the new chairwoman of the company, a position she will take up on 1 April 2022. She will replace Pablo Isla, who has held the presidency since 2011 and will still do so until March 31, as reported by the company to the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV).

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.