Zara: IT for Fast Fashion On a beautiful August night in 2003‚ Xan Salgado Badas and Bruno Sanchez Ocampo settled into seats at their favorite tapas bar in the Spanish city of La Corufia‚ ordered pulpo gallego (octopus Galician style)‚ and resumed their argument. Salgado was the head of IT for lnditex‚ a multinational clothing retailer and manufacturer headquartered in La Corufia
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CNN.com - Zara‚ a Spanish success story - June 15 2001 http://edition.cnn.com/BUSINESS/programs/yourbus... MAINPAGE EUROPE WORLD WEATHER BUSINESS markets market data technology tech markets currencies biz international SCI-TECH ENTERTAINMENT IN-DEPTH NEWS BRIEF SPORT Zara‚ a Spanish success * story June 15‚ 2001 Posted: 4:37 AM EDT (0837 GMT) Your Business Your World Success without sweatshops • Zara does things differently LONDON‚ England (CNN) -- In an era when clothing retailers
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Research papers Zara : A. Clearance Pricing Optimization for a Fast-Fashion Retailer Summary: The research paper ‘Clearance Pricing Optimization for a Fast-Fashion Retailer’ talks about how Zara has increased its clearance revenues by approximately 6% by following a price optimization model. Zara uses minimal in-season promotions and offer continuous changing styles. However they were facing clearance pricing problem because it involved comparatively more different styles of unsold inventory
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ZARA By John M. Gallaugher A look inside the innovative techniques of one of the largest fashion retailers 2012 Joshua Crocker MGMT 3030 12/19/2012 ZARA By John M. Gallaugher A look inside the innovative techniques of one of the largest fashion retailers 2012 Joshua Crocker MGMT 3030 12/19/2012 A Goldman analyst once described this fashion retailer as “Armani at moderate prices” and another suggested that fashions were “Banana Republic” while prices were “Old Navy” (Folpe
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1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The report will undertake a strategic analysis of Global Automobile Industry. Relevant theoretical frameworks and concepts will be applied to the automobile industry in order to make better understanding of its strategies. Firstly‚ the report will provide background information such as industry definition‚ competitors and history outline. It will also include reasons for undertaking this research. Secondly‚ strategic analysis of Automobile industry will be
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CASE STUDY: - ZARA: IT FOR FAST FASHION Zara’s success is attributed to its ingenious design‚ development‚ and production and supply chains in the world. It has been its culture to change its designs very frequently. This is mainly because they feel their differentiation point in the market is its new designs. Short-cycle production of small volumes of items has made Zara fundamentally different from other competitors. Zara has a short lead time and is more responsive to market trend. Salgado
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PORTER’S GENERIC COMPETITIVE STRATEGY Automobile Sector MARUTHI: Low Cost Product – Differentiated service Product Pricing: Maruthi build high walls of safety against competition by its very competitive pricing i.e. pricing as low as possible for the particular product. Maruthi has also been a company that has strived for sustainable development with their “three R” framework standing for “reduce‚ recycle‚ reuse” in its plants‚ so that there is a minimal stress on resources emphasizing on low
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El Caso Zara Dirección de Marketing – Universidad de Valladolid Isabel Gamazo Sara Granero Raúl Canal Álvaro Zubizarreta Objetivos Describir el entorno en el que se desarrolla la actividad de Zara. Examinar el comportamiento y las motivaciones de los consumidores en el mercado de la moda actual. Estudiar las características del mercado de la moda y comprender como lo aborda la empresa: Segmentación Posicionamiento Diferenciación Comprender el entorno competitivo de la empresa. Analizar la
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Threats - ZARA Some threats that affect ZARA include international expansion‚ geographic scope‚ and intense competition. Zara recognizes that the company needs to have a competitive advantage in order to survive‚ so they are constructing a second distribution centre in Zaragoza. Also the company is still looking to expand internationally. Expanding in Spain is difficult for the company because of past experience in Sweden. Zara is considering expansion in North America‚ but is concerned that it
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CASO: ZARA IT FOR FAST FASHION L OS P ROBLEMAS • Existe una indecisión por parte de los encargados en el área de sistemas en la empresa ya que hay diferentes puntos de vista sobre si se mantiene el sistema actual de ventas o se implementa uno nuevo. A continuación se mencionan algunos de estos puntos de vista. En caso de dejar el sistema actual: o Se utilizara tecnología obsoleta en las tiendas‚ la cual puede llegar a perder el soporte técnico ya que el único proveedor de esta tecnología puede
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