Industry Analysis: Within the global apparel chain‚ profits are derived from “unique combination of high-value research‚ design‚ sales‚ marketing‚ and financial services that allow retailers‚ brand marketers‚ and branded manufacturers to act as strategic brokers in linking overseas factories” with markets (Gary Gereffi). Barriers to entry are fairly low. Not much capital is needed to enter the industry‚ as franchises and joint ventures are popular methods of establishing retail stores while keeping
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Zara Supply Chain Report By: A.H. C.L. H.L. S.H. X.W. Humble Beginnings In 1975‚ Amancio Ortea Gaona started Inditex Corporation in his first small shop in a remote town in Spain‚ Arteixo. Only 35 years later‚ it has emerged the largest apparel company in the world—Zara. Currently‚ Zara’s headquarters and two distribution centers are located in this small Spanish town. Zara broke a new path between the traditional high fashion and the mass fashion strategies; it provides
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repercussions of the economic crisis are not going to disappear in the short What is economic crisis? * An economic crisis is A situation in which the economy of a country or countries experiences a sudden downturn brought on by a financial crisis. A financial crisis is a situation when money demand quickly rises relative to money supply. Until a few decades ago‚ a financial crisis was equivalent to a banking crisis. Today it may also take the form of a currency crisis. Many economists have come
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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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Aalborg University BSc Economics and Business Administration 2012 October 24BSc Economics and Business Administration Mini Project The ZARA Case Study in Economics and The Organisation of Economic Activity The report has been prepared by: Inga Dragunaite ___________________________________ Justina Vaidziulyte ___________________________________ Kristina Kirilova ___________________________________ Aleksandar Varbanov
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Question No1.Advantages of responsive supply chain of Zara? A responsive supply chain of Zara works collaboratively among the stakeholders to exchange information in a feedback loop in order to produce enough of a product to satisfy uncertain demand. Zara has greater visibility into the supply chain which makes it responsive to the current market. This allows Zara to sense and respond quickly to capitalize on new opportunities. The information systems are the heart of the business model which enables
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To what extent is economic growth beneficial for global economies? Economic growth is defined as the expansion of the productive capacity of an economy. An increase in resources causes an area to produce more goods or services in a given period of time – as shown on a production possibility frontier (PPF) diagram‚ where the curve shifts outwards. The PPF is a curve showing the maximum combinations of goods and services that can be produced in a given period with available resources. The improvement
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The Effects of a Slumping Economy Jennifer Crawford MGT 435 April 6th‚ 2009 The Effects of a Slumping Economy The Non-Effectiveness of some corporate decisions may have led us into this financial decline that we are seeing today. Not all decisions that are made in the business field are good ones. Some of those decisions can put the financial standing of a company in jeopardy or even push it right down the tubes. The economic struggle that
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Literature review 1 The 2008 global financial crisis The effects on the U.S. economy have by now been widely analysed and dissected‚ so several economists have focused on the influences of other countries. Mishkin (2011) pointed out that the inner link between countries’ financial systems was tighter than previously realized. Naudé (2009) studied the correlation between the 2008 financial crisis and the developing countries and proposed that some developing countries were less affected and
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I. IntroductionThe financial crisis in the Asian economies in 1997 has created tremendous interests in the economic point of view. This report focuses on the economic situation of Hong Kong in 1997-98‚ which has some very special features among the economies in the region. In the Asian Financial Crisis‚ the economy in Hong Kong did not sufferer from any banking or currency crisis like some of the Asian countries such as Indonesia‚ Malaysia‚ South Korea and Thailand‚ which their troubles began with
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