The clothing retailer has more than 2,000 stores worldwide and is the flagship brand of the Inditex Group. Zara is renowned for its ability to develop a new product and get it to stores within two weeks, while other retailers take six months. Zara launched online sales last year in Mexico, South Korea, Greece and Romania with similar plans for Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau in 2015. Rosalia Mera, who co-founded Zara with her former husband Amancio Ortega, died in 2013 at the age of 69. She was the wealthiest self-made woman in the world with a fortune estimated at $6.1 billion at the time of her death.