upscale locations in the cities like Europe‚ United States‚ Middle East‚ and Asia. Zara has its system of 1603 stores in 78 countries. Its stores are located at high-ended places in the world’s major capitals‚ which target at upper-middle level people (INDITEX‚ n.d.). We have discovered a few factors in the macro-environment which we believe they will affect Zara’s profitability in the next three to five years. These factors are: 1. Economic factors 2. Environmental factors 3. Social factors‚
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of these functions and provide recommendations accordingly. Write a report on your findings and analysis for functions of management in your organization . Profile Zara is one of the largest international fashion companies. It belongs to Inditex‚ one of the world’s largest distribution groups. Zara welcomes shoppers in 86 countries to its network of 1.770 stores in upscale locations in the world’s largest cities. The retailer’s international footprint proves that national borders are no hindrance
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ESPRIT A Global Player in Lifestyle America‚ 1968. Susie and Doug Tompkins are travelling through California in a station wagon filled with homemade clothes. Theirs is an unconventional method of selling - from the back seat of a vehicle - but even their very first customers are delighted‚ and one of the world’s most successful young fashion brands is born: Esprit. Worldwide success As the Esprit headquarters developed in Europe (Düsseldorf) and Asia (Hong Kong) in the 70s‚ the founder
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Background Inditex‚ founded by Amancio Ortega‚ operates six different chains: Zara‚ Massimo Dutti‚Pull&Bear‚ Bershka‚ Stradivarius‚ and Oysho. Since 2006 when the case was written‚ Inditex hasadded Zara Home and Uterque to its collection. The retail chains were meant to operate asseparate business units within a structure‚ which included six support areas and nine corporatedepartments. Each chain addressed different segments of the market‚ but all share the samegoal: to dominate their segment
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at affordable prices by following the most up-to-date fashion trends and identifying consumers’ demand‚ and quickly getting the latest designs into stores. BACKGROUND About ZARA Zara is a flagship brand of the Spanish retail group‚ Inditex group. Inditex is the world’s largest fashion group‚ which owns other fashion brands such as Pull & Bear‚ Massimo Dutti‚ Bershka‚ Stradivarius‚ Oysho‚ Zara Home‚ Lefties and Uterqüe. It was founded in 1975 by Amancio Ortega‚ when he decided to expand his
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1. How would you describe Zara’s financial performance? Since only Inditex historical financials are shown in the case‚ we took the financials of Inditex to describe Zara’s financial performance. It is reasonable to take Inditex financial data because Zara made up 76% of Inditex’s sales in 2001. Zara (Inditex) Financial Performance in 1996-2001 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 Liquidity Ratio (current ratio) 0.81 1.00 0.88 0.87 0.90 1.02 Leverage Ratio (debt/ equity) 1.98 1.84 1
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Management Information Systems (Oct 18‚2014) Case 1: Zara‚ Netflix and Amazon Business Systems by Efstratiou Kostandinos 1. ZARA a. General. Zara is one of the greatest global fashion companies belonging to the Spanish retail group‚ Inditex SA. Its founder Amancio Ortega Gaona opened its first store in A Coruña (Spain) in 1975. During the 1980s Ortega started changing the design and distribution process to react to new trends quicker. In 1988 the company started its international expansion
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Abstract Zara has been operating in Europe since the year 1975. This paper includes a study of the strengths and weaknesses of Zara Company supply chain management system. It divides the supply chain process into three distinct phases. It shows how the company has managed to embrace technology to deliver its products to customers in real time. The paper also contains a comparison between Zara and its main global competitor in the market. The paper concludes by outlining some of the challenges the
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Zara is considered as one of the greatest global fashion companies. This belongs to the Inditex as one of the greatest groups of distribution in world. Its specific model of thebusiness is consumer –based and comprises the distribution‚ manufacture and selling of the products with the help of extensive system of group owned retailers. It has been examined that designers of Zara are continuously tracking the preferences of customer and placing the orders with the external and internal suppliers. The
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Background Zara Zara is a chain of stores Belonging to the Spanish fashion group INDITEX founded by Amancio Ortega Gaona. It is the company ’s flagship chain and is represented in Europe‚ America‚ Africa and Asia with 1412 stores in 69 countries‚ 500 of them in Spain. During 2007 it opened 560 stores across the group. . It has three logistics centers‚ located in the main Arteixo‚ province of La Coruna (Spain)‚ where he opened the first store in 1975 and two in Zaragoza and Madrid. In 1975 he
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