Zara is part of the €4 billion Inditex Group. Over 80% of the group's sales are contributed by Zara's 600 stores Other labels include Pull & Bear, Massimo Dutti, Bershka Stardivarius, Oysho, and the recently added Zara Home Founded in 1963 by Amancio Ortega, with a small lingerie business. The first Zara shops opened in 1975 selling low-priced imitations of more upmarket fashion houses Ortega thought that consumers would regard clothes as a perishable commodity no different from yogurt or bread to be consumed, rather than stored in closets Teamed up with José Maria Castellano, an IT buff who made Ortega's dream of freshly baked clothes a reality