Throughout the years of bitter kept discreet and agreed to be interviewed only about social issues

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Rosalia Mara, who died at the weekend, was the richest woman in Spain, but that the economic and political elites in the country. Fashion Tycoon, dropped out of school turtleneck and chain at age 11, she devoted herself turtleneck and chain to social causes. Fortune heiress: her daughter psychological
"We can not cut some of the easiest, below. If we continue to reduce the investment in health, childcare and education, made our company a good very small," he declared last May Rosalia Mara (Rosalia Mera), founder of the fashion empire International Zara, who died at the weekend.
For Mara, who was richest woman in Spain, this statement is absolutely not lip service. Who won the nicknames "millionairess turtleneck and chain different," "angry glamorous" and "mtndbt Iron "managed to accumulate 69 years of capital by 6.1 billion dollars, but in the eyes of the Spaniards perceived annoyance weak. Mara has inspired - she maintained a simple lifestyle and culture Jebreal "connected" the economic and political elites, who mocked her and harshly criticized. She was the wife of a sense reversed the norm, in the social sense really. "I wish all manufacturers would like," she eulogized yesterday UGT leader, one of the country's largest labor unions.
Although bile reached "only" place of -195 richest world, but is ranked first in the global list of women who have accumulated their wealth by themselves, that is not because of inheritance or marriage. And she did it ten fingers: She was born in a working edge of La Coruña in the autonomous community of Galicia on the north end - western Spain. turtleneck and chain At age 11, she dropped out to work as a seamstress, and two years later went to work at La defragmenter, a clothing store which worked well and given amnesia brothers Antonio Ortega, sons of a railroad worker. She married in 1966, given amnesia, and they began to sew in lingerie and clothing brand GOA framework. One of their flagship products was pink housecoat and long blue ribbons.
Rosalia and Ortega opened the first Zara store in 1975. They were going to call it "Zorba" in the name of the film "Zorba the Greek", but because only a few blocks from there was a bar named so, they changed the name L"zara. " The store specialized in imitation of luxury brands at low prices, a formula that has become a model thanks to which became turtleneck and chain one of the Zara fashion giant in the world.
Zara, operating in Israel since 1997, operates 1,763 stores worldwide. Ortega Located on Tuesday the list of the richest people in the world of "Forbes" With an estimated fortune at -56.9 billion. He maintained throughout the years of his privacy jealously and never interviewed.
Ortega bitter and divorced in 1986, and she kept a share of almost 7% of Inditex. She continued to be attached to the industrial world, but focused turtleneck and chain mainly on other channels - philanthropy and treatment of her son Marcus who suffers from cerebral palsy. The trauma of dropping out of school is made up completing a degree in teaching, and inspired by her son established the Foundation turtleneck and chain Faidiah Galicia, which helps young people with disabilities into society with a battery of health professionals. Over the years, the Foundation turtleneck and chain has expanded and now helps local communities to get government subsidies for commercial projects and support the creation of jobs for young people.
Against the background of growing youth unemployment crisis-stricken Spain demanded bitterly authorities often develop a greater number of projects promoting young "because it's never a waste, but an investment, adding that" the country that invests in its young catastrophe. "
At the same time for philanthropy is continued to invest in coming turtleneck and chain to the heart through the corona Rosf investment fund established with her eldest daughter Sandra. Investments include among others maintenance of 5% of the Spanish biotechnology Salads (Zeltia), which develops cancer treatments using materials from the sea, a large fish farms, biotech companies and green energy. The fund also invests in real estate, hotels and cultural turtleneck and chain and artistic projects.
Throughout the years of bitter kept discreet and agreed to be interviewed only about social issues or publishing rich list of "Forbes". She told her dealings industrialist and philanthropist driven logic feminine and maternal: caution, practicality, careful management of resources, focusing on clear goals and a connection area. She believed in productive work, teamwork and innovation across the economy speculative.
Conduct simple and unaffected accompanied her professional life and personal: She came every day to the working of Faidiah, meetings with families and various activities; She continued to live in her hometown, and people were used to seeing turtleneck and chain it in the cinema, carnival, bars and beach; her children and grandchildren always attended public schools "with children who have and those who do not have," he said in an interview last year when told as a child she lived in a 70 square turtleneck and chain meters with 12 other family members.
Neighbors saw it also demonstrations: turtleneck and chain For example, in 2003, she participated in demonstrations discreetly campaign Máis Nunca (Never Again), joy red tape in handling maritime ecological turtleneck and chain disaster caused after the Prestige turtleneck and chain oil tanker ruptured off the coast of Spain.
Politicians in Galicia, and Madrid turn up their noses when she went against the Conservative government's plan to worsen the current abortion laws. Bile also publicly turtleneck and chain opposed the massive cuts in government-imposed on citizens as part of an austerity program designed to extract the current economic turtleneck and chain crisis in Spain, which is the most serious known for decades. She was supportive known movement of social protest M15 of Hayndigndos (angry) in Spain, and said that despite the continued path of movement is not clear, turtleneck and chain it must continue because it was "the least we can do in light of the levels of corruption in high that there is any arena - political, social and economic" . When asked to comment turtleneck and chain on the progressive worldview and tends to the left of the political spectrum, turtleneck and chain she said: "Anyone who comes from my background turtleneck and chain could not be otherwise."
Mara and her daughter were on vacation turtleneck and chain last week with the grandchildren Mediterranean island Minorca. Mara suffered a stroke and died 24 hours later in a hospital Bell