{"id":4882,"date":"2012-11-09T10:30:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T16:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4882"},"modified":"2012-11-09T10:30:21","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T16:30:21","slug":"how-zara-grew-into-the-world%e2%80%99s-largest-fashion-retailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4882","title":{"rendered":"How Zara Grew Into the World\u2019s Largest Fashion Retailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/11\/11\/magazine\/how-zara-grew-into-the-worlds-largest-fashion-retailer.html?partner=rss&#038;emc=rss&#038;smid=tw-nytimes&#038;_r=0\">Suzy Hansen<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Galicia, on the Atlantic coast of northern Spain, is the homeland of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, but is otherwise famous for being a place people try to leave. For much of the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of gallegos, as they are called, emigrated to countries as far away as Argentina to escape Galicia\u2019s rural poverty. Today, however, even as Spain teeters on the edge of economic catastrophe, the Galician city La Coru\u00f1a has attracted notice as the hometown of Amancio Ortega Gaona, the world\u2019s third-richest man \u2014 he displaced Warren Buffett this year on the Bloomberg billionaire index \u2014 and the founder of a wildly successful fashion company, Inditex, more commonly known by its oldest and biggest brand, Zara.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suzy Hansen: Galicia, on the Atlantic coast of northern Spain, is the homeland of Generalissimo Francisco Franco, but is otherwise famous for being a place people try to leave. For much of the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of gallegos, as they are called, emigrated to countries as far away as Argentina to escape Galicia\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}