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Self-made billionaire Amancio Ortega may have be regretting the decision to wait until 2011 to open the first Zara store in Australia, making it the 78th country to house one of the fast-fashion brand's shops. Zara provided a copy of its 2013 ...

: $28.7 billion (Bloomberg Billionaires Index). 9. Christy Walton Walton is a Walmart heir. Estimated net worth as of August 8, 2012: $29.8 billion (Bloomberg Billionaires Index). 8. David Koch Koch is executive vice president at Koch ...

Bill Gates may have devoted much of his time to charitable causes in the last five years, but he is on the top of his league again as the richest man in the world with a personal net worth of $72.2 billion, according to Bloomberg. Share article This ...

The world's wealthiest people lost a combined $45.7 billion this week, as the Standard & Poor's 500 Index pared its worst weekly drop since November amid better- than-estimated earnings. Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad, 87, overtook Amancio Ortega of ...

Bill Gates, co-founder and chairman of Microsoft, is once again the world's richest man with a net worth of $73.7 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Carlos Slim, owner of the largest mobile-phone operator in the Americas, ...

June 12 (Bloomberg) -- Inditex SA shares rose after the world's biggest clothing retailer reported a gain in sales and forecast profitability will be stable even after first-quarter profit advanced at the slowest pace in four years. The stock rose ...

Fast Retailing Co. (9983), Asia's largest clothing retailer, hasn't decided if it will join a safety pact to improve fire and building safety in Bangladesh following the country's worst industrial disaster. The agreement has been supported by other ...

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Homegrown Spanish fashion brands like Zara and Mango have been rare success stories in Spain amid its wrenching economic depression. But now a series of deadly accidents at overseas sewing plants are causing some soul-searching about the cost of ...