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Zara Owner Gives Founder’s Daughter Reins in Generational Shift

Inditex has announced a top management shakeup, elevating Marta Ortega to chairwoman and naming a new CEO.
Zara store in Brussels
Zara store in Brussels (Tim Van de Velde)

Marta Ortega, daughter of the founder of Spanish fashion retailer Inditex, will replace Chairman Pablo Isla, who led the company’s global expansion for more than a decade, in a succession some analysts called premature.

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