Case # 4 – Zara Zara is the flagship company of Inditex‚ an international clothing retailer. Zara began its business as a small retail store in Spain founded by Amancio Ortega Gaona in 1975. In the following decades Zara has grown to nearly 450 store location in 29 countries by the year 2000. Zara consistently accounts for more than 80% of Inditex’s net sales as indicated by Figure 1; linking the success of Inditex to the success of the strategies of Zara. Figure 1 Inditex Net Sales by Concept
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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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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 1.97 1.98 1.80 0.75 Profitability
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BIT HuangFei (Tracy) Zara: a Spanish retailer goes to the top of world fashion Answer1: The international expansion of Zara started with the opening of a store in Portugal in 1988. Through establishment in Portugal Zara acquired international market experience and knowledge and realized that it would have to adjust its business model to suit the new international markets. International sales accounted for 69 percent of its total turnover in 2005‚ with Europe being its largest market by far
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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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Equity (CBBE) (Keller‚ 2008) Salience Zara is a well-known and ranked number one clothing brand in Spain‚ and it is the brand chain store of the Inditex Group owned which ranked number three in the world (INDITEX Group‚ 2012). Zara used fast fashion model – limited and variety. Zara resist a trend within the worldwide industrial- product manufacturing in low-cost area. That prove its product has a certain quality. Related to fast fashion‚ Zara has asserted that it only needs 2 weeks time to
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Introduced to Thailand for the first time in February of 2006‚ Zara today has three stores located in the three most luxurious malls of Bangkok. Zara’s much anticipated opening was very well received by the Thai community. This study investigates views from both Zara and its customers in order to identify important issues regarding consumer’s interaction with Zara and vice versa. An in-depth interview with Zara’s brand manager introduced three main issues concerning value perception from consumers
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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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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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activity‚ and the implementation of the change in all its complex technological‚ human‚ and organizational dimensions". (Davenport‚ 1993) ZARA ZARA is founded in the year 1975 and owned by Amancio Ortega‚ in La Courna. Inditex is probably the world ’s fastest growing clothing retailer with over 3‚100 stores around the world in over 70 countries and the Zara format taking around 1‚000 of those stores. In March 2006‚ the group overtook Sweden ’s Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) to become Europe ’s largest
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