Marta Ortega turns 39: the queen of Inditex who modernizes the company

This January 10th he turns 39 years old martha ortegathe businessman’s daughter Amancio Ortega that she is in a magnificent professional and personal moment, after she took over and assumed the position of non-executive president of the company that her father founded, Inditex, on April 1, 2022. Marta runs the company from Madrid, where she lives with her second husband, Carlos Torretaand their two children, Amancio Alvarezson of her first husband, the horseman Sergio Alvarezy Matildadaughter of Turret.

After the departure of Paul Island of the group’s Board of Directors, Marta Ortega, Amancio’s youngest daughter, took over the Spanish fashion multinational and in July presided over the first shareholders’ meeting held at its headquarters, Arteixo (Coruña).

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Marta has inherited from the previous manager a company revalued by 900%, with 175 employees, 6,500 stores spread all over the world, 80% profit and the best business margin in 10 years. Before those who could question her ability to maintain and improve these figures, the founder’s daughter has already silenced several mouths and has shown that she knows what she is doing at the head of the fashion giant.

Among the changes that the businesswoman has introduced for the better are the opening of macro stores, called Flagship stores, such as the Zara store open in the Edificio España, in the Plaza de España in Madrid, where the shopping experience is completely technological, thanks to an application that allows you to reserve fitting rooms, locate products, buy, return garments or collect orders at once. mobile. In the twin corner of the building, the company opened a similar space for the Stradivarius brand.

This renewal has spread to most Spanish cities and other international capitals. The most emblematic firm, Zara, has also become “great” when it comes to mixing with haute couture. At Marta’s initiative, it is going to launch narciso rodriguez x Zaraa capsule collection with some of the great successes of the American designer, a great friend of Ortega.

and the supermodel Kaia Gerber he is already selling 30 of his designs for the collection with great success Kaia X Zara. These collaborations are joined by others with the photographer Steven Meiselwith the jewelery firm Elie Topwith the British director Charlotte Gainsbourg or with the models Kate Moss e Irina Shayk.

It has also achieved great success in the commitment to online sales, sustainability and Start up as Circ, dedicated to recycling fashion from the fibers contained in a garment. Inditex has also launched Join Lifean initiative that pursues the use of the most sustainable cellulosic fibers, and sustainable cotton or the Green to pack for packing.

The board of directors began as one more salesperson in the Zara store located on Oxford Street after graduating in Business Studies, at the European Business School of the University of the British capital. She later ended up in Arteixo, where she already got to work with the management and development of fashion and led the launch of some collections such as Studio o SRPLS.

She is very discreet with her private life, but she does not hide it. In her public appearances she always wears and boasts of the brand’s garments, and of her love for her second husband and son of the designer Roberto TorretaCarlos Torreta, whom she married in 2018 and has had a beautiful daughter born in March 2020. Marta is also the mother of little Amancio, who will turn 10 in 2023, and is the son of rider Sergio Álvarez, Marta’s first husband, from whom he divorced six years after the wedding in 2012.