large variety of tangible resources due to its international expansion and vertical integration. Zara has 507 stores around the world with a total selling area of 488‚400 m² and 1‚050 million of Inditex ’s capital invested into them. It also owns a 130‚000 m² warehouse in close vicinity to its headquarters in Arteixo‚ Spain. In order to accommodate the company ’s initiatives for backward vertical integration‚ Zara purchased 20 factories that were highly automated with machines that were specialized
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consumers manufacturing wholesaler retailer consumer Vertical integration- a firm performs more than one set of activities in the channel‚ as occurs when a retailer engages in wholesaling activities by operating its own distribution centers to supply its stores Backward integration- retailer performs some wholesaling and manufacturing activities‚ such as operating warehouses or designing private label merchandise Forward integration- manufacturer undertakes retailing and wholesaling activities
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THE ROLE OF MEDIA & INFORMATION AGENCIES IN PROMOTINGNATIONAL INTEGRATION & UNITY IN A MULTI ETHNIC SOCIETY AS INMALAYSIAINTRODUCTION Malaysia is a small country which has a unique multi-ethnic. Ethnicity in Malaysiacan be traced back with the emergence of the Chinese during the Malacca Sultanate inearly 15th century and expended in 18th century when thousands of Chinese familiesstart to settle in Johor and Terengganu. During the British colonization‚ the large number of immigrants of two
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currently employs a "design-on-demand" retail model allowing the company to bring the latest fashion trends from conception through production and into the stores in less then 15 days. This advantage is harnessed through Zara ’s high degree of vertical integration. Zara is involved with almost every aspect of the retail clothing value chain‚ from fabric cutting and dying through distribution and sales. Integral to Zara ’s competitive advantage is its strong and distinctive culture‚ both at the production
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* Explain what FDI is and discuss the benefits and costs of FDI from the perspective of a host country and from the perspective of the home country FDI --Foreign direct investment FDI occur when a firm invests directly in new facilities to produce and/or market in a foreign country. Foreign direct investment has many advantages for both the investor and the recipient. One of the primary benefits is that it allows money to freely go to whatever business has the best prospects for growth anywhere
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I. The Role of the State and Public Planning: Central Tasks Maintain civilized order law and order provision of publicgoods II. Rationale for Development Planning Market Failure Resource Mobilization Psychological Impact Foreign Aid III Strengths of the Public Sector rep commonweal provision of public goods cap to improve equity III Weaknesses of the Public Sector: public purpose pressure bureacracy IV Failures in State Planning theory vs practice poor history V
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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL YEAR 2012/2013 INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT Al Ain Dairy: Market Expansion FACULTY OF ECONOMICS UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA 1. Recommend new products for Al Ain Diary based on competitive analysis‚ consumer insights and emerging trends. Al Ain Dairy is the UAE’s largest dairy company by market share with customers not only from the UAE market but also from Europe and other Asian countries. Besides
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Crown‚ Cork and Seal Case 1989 Five Forces Analysis Using Porter’s 5 Forces Analysis argue that given likely evolution and status of the metal industry in 1989‚ it is profitable to acquire all or part of Continental Can: Internal Rivalry Strong force 5 major competitors holding 61% (American National Can‚ Continental can‚ Reynolds Metal‚ Crown Cork and Seal‚ Ball Corporation) Heavily compete on basis of price Companies offering volume discounts Industry operating margins falling – fell
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to control supply interlocking directorate was when a company or group with control the board members of other companies to facilitate deals to benefit the baeking party horizontal integration is where a corporation controls all of one area of production to hold a monopoly on that stage of production vertical integration is when a company controls all stages of production of a product controlling every part and monopolizing prices 2. Interstate commerce act: designed to regulate the railroad companies
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* Advantages * Drawback: risk and expenses * Retrenchment- divestment * Reason for exit * Exit barriers for divestment 3.1.2. Substantive growth * Related diversification * Horizontal integration * Vertical integration * Advantages * Disadvantages * Unrelated diversification 3.1.1. Divestment strategy * Based on the above analysis‚ Select an appropriate future strategy for LG Electronics (3.2) Choose one of these
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