Admiration Project (ZARA) 9.19.12 So what is Zara? Many people have probably never heard of the clothing/fashion brand named Zara. Even if you have heard of Zara‚ the chances of you seeing Zara on any poster or television advertisements is very slim. In fact the Spanish clothing retailer has a very unusual marketing strategy. Zara has a “zero advertising policy.” With almost no money going into advertisement‚ how is Zara able to compete with competitors? Unlike competitors‚ Zara only spends about
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2012 Zara Marketing Audit MBA-USQ 11: MKT5000 University of Applied Sciences Zurich (HWZ) Switzerland Supervised by: Prof. Richard Beswick Anja Anastasja Keller U1028905 23.08.2012 MBA-USQ 11: MKT5000 Written Assignment I: Zara Marketing Audit‚ Anja Anastasja Keller‚ U1028905 Executive Summary Zara is a publicly listed company and belongs to the Inditex Group‚ founded by Amancio Ortega in 1975 in Spain. Zara always continues to bring excitement to fashion and fulfils customer
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Introduction Zara has established itself successfully over the course of five years since the opening of its first retail store in Spain in 1975. We must now consider further opportunities of growth with a sole purpose of gaining further international recognition in order to maintain our mark as a top leader in the retail industry amidst the competition of the fashion industry. Across the region in Asia‚ Europe and Middle East‚ my choice of Zara’s next expansion to branch into is Hong Kong. This
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Technology (IT) play in enabling Zara’s counter-intuitive strategy quite opposite to this conventional wisdom? Could the firm have executed its strategy without the help of IT? Why or why not? Answer: IT plays an important role in the success of Zara. It is crucial in the processes of: "DATA GATHERING"‚ "DESIGN" AND "MANUFACTURING AND LOGISTICS" Zara’s store managers lead the intelligence-gathering effort that ultimately determines what ends up on each store’s racks. Armed WITH PERSONAL DIGITAL
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Question: How would you characterise the contemporary Caribbean‚ taking into consideration the issues of inequality‚ multi-culturalism and poverty. Often enough the Caribbean is portrayed as the untouched paradise‚ with its’ crystallised waters‚ hidden getaways and lavish landscapes with enriched flora and fauna. However‚ the image projected is not without a tumultuous past. It is a past based on colonialism‚ slavery‚ indentureship‚ assimilation‚ the mixing and diffusion or borrowing of many cultures
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T.K.Maxx and Zara are very different retailers in the fashion industry. Whilst one offers low cost designer labels the other retails quality own-brand labelled clothes at a reasonable price. Zara sets itself apart from the giant market place by celebrating its motive to offer exactly what the customer wants‚ going to detective levels to make sure they understand their audience’s wishes. T.K.Maxx on the other-hand distinguishes itself by reducing prices of designer labels by up to 60%‚ and these are
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Zara Zara varies in price‚ promotion‚ and positioning from some of its main competitors‚ H&M and Gap. Zara uses very little of its budget on promotion and marketing and relies more on its store windows to advertise its name to the public. Zara also places stores in busy areas and predominantly in more affluent areas in order to attract the most customers who will have the financial resources to purchase clothes from them. Zara’s store windows are designed to capture and entice customers and
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Recommendations The best way for Zara to maintain their sustainable growth is to seek new opportunities in the apparel market. With changing consumer behaviors as a result of globalization‚ and U.S. department stores suffering‚ there are growth options available for specialty retailers like Zara. Zara has the opportunity to be one of the trendiest/low priced retailers that America has seen recently. Zara should most likely develop a second central distribution center in the Americas to decrease
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TYPICAL PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE • Sales decreases as the product moves over the timeline ZARA PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE • High fashion industry with latest designs and trends 5-6 weeks life cycle • The life cycle curves is shown as the graph above ZARA’S KEY FACTORS SHORT LEAD TIME LOWER QUANTITIES MORE STYLES • Keep up with the newest fashion trends more fashionable clothes • Zara only needs about 30 days to identify new trend and have the product available in stores
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