The co-founder and main shareholder of Inditex, the Galician businessman Amancio Ortega , will raise his personal fortune tomorrow by 812.5 million euros with the collection of the second payment of the dividend approved by the company from the results of the year 2018.

After the first payment, paid on May 2, Ortega, which owns 59.29% of the capital of Indite x and is the sixth richest man in the world (according to Forbes), will pocket a total of 1,626 million euros for this concept.

Her daughter Sandra Ortega , who owns 5.05% of the group's capital, will charge 69 million , the same figure she received in May.

Inditex approved the payment of a dividend of 0.88 euros gross per share from the fiscal year 2018 , 17% more than the one paid in the previous year and which represents the distribution among its shareholders of a total of 2,742 million.

Thus, he raised his "pay out" (percentage of the profit destined to dividends) from 50 to 60%.

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