After approaching a Reiss and Zara Store in Oxford circus‚ speaking to staff and doing some more research on the internet i have come to notice both ZARA and REISS are a growing profitable companies. When looking at REISS THE BRAND: Reiss a retailer of “own brand” quality fashion menswear and womenswear that established itself in London in 1970. The brand has become reorganized as a progressive‚ fashion-led retail company. Designing and producing own –label ranges it offers an aspirational look
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Running Head: PROPOSAL TO IMPROVE THE IT/IS STRATEGY AT ZARA Proposal to Improve the IT/IS Strategy at ZARA Be future ready!!! Oct. 3‚ 2011 Executive Summary To grow at the same pace in the fast changing fashion industry‚ Zara should use advanced IT/IS systems as an enabler to improve the overall business process. Zara is facing a challenge today by using obsolete technology. Also due to a number of internally developed applications‚ there is no clear picture of the entire sales or inventory
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Open Zara Store in Suzhou Zara Project Report Yang Cao Kalele Perreira Hunan Lei Nicholas Case Business 201‚ Section 1 Professor Eli Berniker May 20‚ 2007 Table of Contents Introduction to the project: p.3 Intro to Zara: p.3—4 Business Vision: p.4 Location: p.4—7 Target Market: p.7—8 Business Start—up and Operation: p.8—14 Future Growth: p.14—15 Invest Recommendation: p.15—16 Why we choose Bank of China to get our initial fund? p.16 References:
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ZARA Case Assignment 1. With which international competitor listed in the case is it most useful to compare Inditex’s financial performance? What do comparisons indicate about Inditex’s operating economics? Why? There are 3 key international competitors mentioned in the case: The Gap‚ H&M and Benetton. The Gap‘s production was internationalized with more than 90% of it outsourced outside of the United States. Its stores‚ however‚ were US centric. Therefore‚ The Gap’s strategy was to own
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ZARA IT for Fast Fashion ( Case Analysis) 1) Please describe three most important competitive advantages of ZARA (Inditex) over its main competitor. How sustainable is this advantage? 2) Assume that ZARA is considering to enter the US market. Please recommend actions for ZARA. Please make clear assumptions when necessary. After reading and analyzing the Zara case we came several conclusions when it comes to Zara’s competitive advantage over its competitors. We understood that Zara is using
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The Worst Day The alarm clock rang. I slowly turned over to look at the clock‚ 7:35. What 7:35! I jumped out of bed as fast as I could. How long was it going off for? Why did I not wake up? I had so many questions going through my head‚ but I only had 10 minutes to hurry up and get ready. Hair‚ teeth‚ makeup‚ and soccer gear that’s everything I thought to myself. At the exact moment I heard the loud squealing of the buses brakes. I took off running as fast as I could through the neighbor’s yard
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integrated‚ it could specialize in speed and efficiency and the fast fashion trend. By assessing the pros and cons of the new IT infrastructure with Zara’s brand image‚ they determined that implementing the new POS networking system is beneficial for Zara because 1) it creates a more robust and scalable system that is more responsive to Inditex’s supply chain network‚ 2) it removes the risk of the system becoming obsolete and no longer compatible with vendor’s machine upgrade‚ and 3) it helps to maintain
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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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Amanda Lopez March 15‚ 2014 Case Study #1 - Zara Zara is known for its stylish designs‚ many with a resemblance to the offerings of famous Italian fashion houses and all moderately priced. Despite this very recent popularity‚ the novel business model of Zara has gone virtually unnoticed for over 30 years‚ allowing Zara’s parent company‚ Inditex‚ to grow from zero to almost $20B in revenues. Zara was founded in 1975 and its parent company‚ the Inditex group went public in 2001. Within
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OPER 1027 Term 1 Assessment Case study 1-Capacity Planning in Zara Zara is one of the famous brands of the Spanish retail group. It sells up-to-the-minute ’fashionability’ at low prices‚ in stores that are clearly focused on one particular market. (Slack‚ Chambers‚ Betts‚ & Johnson‚ 2006) The first store opened almost by accident in 1975 due to a large pyjamas order cancellation. But now‚ the holdings group included Zara and the other branded chains Pull and Bear and Massimo Dutti‚ which have over
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