Marta Ortega will take over the reins of the Zara group in 2022. She started out as a salesperson.
She will become the president of the most powerful Spanish ready-to-wear group in the world. At 37, Marta Ortega will head from April 1, 2022 the Inditex holding company made up of eight brands: Zara, Massimo Dutti, Bershka, Uterqüe, Pull & Bear, Stradivarius, Oysho and Zara Home. The boss’s daughter, Amancio Ortega, 85, made the debut in an unexpected way for a wealthy heiress. As Liberation reported on Saturday, December 4, Marta Ortega began, at the age of 23, to work in a Zara store, located in the Chelsea district of London. She had managed to remain anonymous until she was unmasked.
Like father like daughter
The young woman then had a series of positions in all the departments of the subsidiary. For fifteen years, she worked in finance, sales, marketing and even product design. A hard worker who has thus followed in her father’s footsteps. According to Xavier Bianco, author of several books on Inditex, Marta Ortega has indeed “following in the father’s footsteps: knowing all the links in the textile trade, roaming and in contact with employees”, He described to Liberation.
A future all mapped out
This is undoubtedly one of the reasons that motivated Amancio Ortega to bequeath his post to Marta. And this, while he already has an older boy and girl from a previous marriage. So it would be his youngest daughter, “the apple of (his) eye”, Which will have all the responsibilities. A transfer of power that the father had planned for a long time. The billionaire closely followed the studies of Marta Ortega. She was educated in a prestigious boarding school in Switzerland, l’Aiglon College. Later, she will obviously continue her brilliant career and receive a master’s degree in business management at the Business School in London. Upon the announcement of her arrival in the Inditex group, Marta Ortega also promised, through a press release, that she will dedicate her “life to develop the legacy of parents”.