标题: Zara's Founder Amancio Ortega [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 12-27-2016 16:58 标题: Zara's Founder Amancio Ortega Behind the mask of Zara l The Management Style of Amancio Ortega; The founder of Inditex has become the world's second-richest man. Economist, Dec 16, 2016. http://www.economist.com/news/bu ... ement-style-amancio
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(a) "a tiny shop with peeling yellow paint in downtown La Coruña, in northern Spain * * * [where] Amancio Ortega [rose] from teenaged apprentice in the corner shop, Gala, a men's clothing business [starting aged 13] * * * had a basic upbringing: an ex-colleague says he talks of meals of 'only potatoes.' He has lived mainly in Galicia, a relatively poor region with no history in textiles. Yet there, in 1975, he founded Zara"
(i) A Coruña https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Coruña
(Galician: A Coruña, Spanish: La Coruña; a city of Galicia; section 1 Name: origin unknown)
Note the difference in Galician and Spanish spelling. As you know, Spanish (language) was first Castilian, much as Chinese (language) was Mandarin (or Beijing dialect). See Spanish language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language#History(section 2 Names of the language)
(ii) Amancio is Spanish and Portuguese form of Amantius. The latter is "a Roman cognomen." en.wikipedia.oprg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognomen
(b) "Mr Ortega is now 80 * * * He owns nearly 60% of Inditex, the holding company of Zara and the other chains * * * According to Forbes magazine, in September his total assets, of nearly $80bn including his properties and other holdings, briefly surpassed those of Bill Gates. * * * His lack of formal education * * * One former long-term CEO of Inditex, and Mr Ortega's business partner for 31 years, José María Castellano, says that his ex-boss’s working method is to discuss things intensely with small groups, delegate paperwork, listen hard to others and prefer oral over written communication."
Maria (given name) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_(given_name)
("The name is also sometimes used as a male (middle) [NEVER first] name. * * * in countries with strong Catholic traditions, where it signified patronage of the Virgin Mar")
(c) Zara is "by far the world's most successful purveyor [outstripping rivals such as Gap and H&M] of 'fast fashion.' * * * Colleagues say he resented a rare biography of him, from 2008, by a fashion journalist, Covadonga O'Shea. * * * Mr Ortega only wants property [as an investment, rather than stocks], an investment 'he can touch' "
Covadonga O'Shea, Así es Amancio Ortega, el hombre que creo Zara. La Esfera de los Libros, SL 2008 (which was translated into English in 2012): The Man from Zara; The story of the genius behind the Inditex Group).