Rosa: Most important facts Rot: References http://fashionista.com/2011/08/zaras-brazilian-factories-accused-of-child-labor-and-unfair-working-conditions/ Zara’s Brazilian Factories Accused of Child Labor and Unfair Labor Practices By LEAH CHERNIKOFF Thursday‚ Aug 18‚ 2011 / 12:34 PM Photos: Reporter Brasil An investigative report out of Brazil has found that Zara‘s Brazilian suppliers contracted with factories which subjected workers to hazardous “slave-like” working conditions
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The organization ’s primary products include pizzas‚ beverages‚ desserts branded merchandise‚ and side items (bread sticks‚ buffalo wings and others). The company shines with its home delivery service. This paper will show how Domino ’s Pizza can increase or decrease its revenue by using price elasticity of demand and will discuss interpretations of elastic demand‚ inelastic demand and unit elasticity. Furthermore‚ this paper will show how determinants of price elasticity of demand affect decisions
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Table of contents Introduction p. 3 Zara Company presentation p. 3 Generic strategies p. 3 & 4 Growth strategies p. 4 & 5 Pest analysis p. 5 & 6 Value chain p. 6 & 7 SWOT analysis p. 7 & 8 Price / quality Grid p. 8 H&M Company presentation p. 9 Generic strategies p. 9 Growth strategies p. 10 PEST analysis p. 10 & 11 Value chain p. 11 & 12 SWOT analysis p. 12 Zara and H&M Comparison of the 4 P’s p
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Quality ZARA become expanding too fast in international market‚ but doing so company needs to increase the capacity of production‚ they started employ original equipment manufacturer(OEM). This leaded to low quality due of using lower qualification by OEM. For example in China they want to have biggest market share as foreign cloth maker with low cost‚ attracting colleague students and young people; but their product were failed frequently in the quality test made by government ‚ out of 57 product
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Product classification of Zara • Most clothing are classified as an “durable good” as they are used up slowly‚ • Clothing doesn’t need to be disposed of after being worn once‚ but rather could be cleaned and reword until a tear within the seams or a stain kills it‚ or ultimately it goes out of style [pic] Product Lifecycle • Due to the clothing industry is mainly backed behind by what is “cool” or “hip” to date‚ clothing often needs to refresh its look in order to attract customers to purchase
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CURRENT SITUATION Goal: ZARA’S goal is to respond quickly and accurately to shifting costumer demands. In order to do this ZARA establish 3 processes. 1. Ordering: Every store places an order twice a week to La Coruña. The order includes replenishment of existing items and initial request for newly items. • The store manager determines the replenishment items‚ walking around the store and counting the garments and talking with sales people. THEY CAN NOT LOOK UP THE INVENTORY BALANCE
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ZARA RESOURCES Tangible resources Financial resources: Inditex‚ the parent company of Zara had a net profit in 2011 of 1.73 billion euros: a jump of 32% of its net profit of 2010. Physical resources: Moreover 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 closed to its headquarters in Arteixo‚ Spain. Zara also purchased 20 factories that were highly automated
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Products‚ Services‚ and Prices in the Free Market Economy Starbucks Corporation (Starbucks) is considering whether to increase or decrease the price of their product in order to increase revenue. Deciding upon which direction to go with the price depends upon the price elasticity of the product. According to the law of demand: “All else equal‚ as price falls‚ the quantity demanded rises‚ and as price rises‚ the quantity demanded falls. In short‚ there is a negative or inverse relationship between
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expected to show high resistance in response to it. Even though Zara has a decentralized decision making process‚ the retailer’s IS department exercises absolute autonomy on the IT infrastructure and design. The fact that “only one person had left the department” in the past 10 years further confirms that the retailer is suffering from cognitive and action inertia‚ and thus creating a huge barrier for such upgrade. Nevertheless‚ Zara should still perform such upgrade in the long run. Q1b. Should
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Merchandising Report Merchandising centres on the buying and selling of goods within a market place and a good merchandising system is essential to the success of any retail business. I intend to focus this merchandising report on Zara‚ a ladies fashion retailer and HMV‚ an entertainment megastore. These two companies have specific buying and merchandising strategies‚ which are tailored to the needs of their products. This report will explore the similarities and differences within each company ’s strategies
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