evaluate strategic direction of Zara‚ the world biggest retailer by analyzing its main strategies to achieve competitive advantages and its current market position in the UK market. II/ Discussion: 1/ Brand portfolio: Zara‚ established in 1975‚ is flagship of the Spanish retail group chain Inditex. In 2006‚ it surpassed the Swedish retailer Hennes & Mauritz with an impressive sale of $8.15 billion and become the world leading fashion retailer (Tiplady‚ 2006). Zara main merchandise is women s’ clothing
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dossier the Group Inditex‚ one of the world’s largest fashion distributors‚ has more than 4‚780 stores in 77 countries in Europe‚ the Americas‚ Asia and Africa. In addition to Zara‚ the largest of its retail chains‚ Inditex has other commercial formats: Pull and Bear‚ Massimo Dutti‚ Bershka‚ Stradivarius‚ Oysho‚ Zara Home and Uterqüe. The Group also includes more than a hundred companies associated with the different activities in the business of textile and fashion design‚ manufacture and distribution
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ZARA • Brand Wheel • Zara Business model • Marketing Objective • Marketing vehicle/ Ways • 5 Learning’s from Amancio Ortega Zara – Brand Wheel Attributes Benefits Values Personality Fashionable clothes‚ Varied assortment‚ Trendy colors‚ feminine cute Fashionable Product lines for moderate costs ‚ Customer- centered business‚ Runway trends adapted for the streets Fashion – oriented women‚ Trendy in every situation‚ feeling good about looking good Fashion – friendly‚ Feminine‚ Hot and trendy
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network of the company is analysed and each stage of the network is developed in details to see how the supply concepts are applied or not by the leader of the clothing industry (Zara) Future developments – The company needs to focus on e-commerce development by taking advantage of its agile supply chain. Furthermore‚ Zara could set up a reverse logistics to develop a sustainable business. Conclusion – Three key points are relevant in this industry: the location of production facilities has to be
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COMPANY OVERVIEW Zara‚ a trendy Spanish clothing retailer founded in 1975 by Amancio Ortega in La Couruna. It is a flagship retail store of Inditex Group‚ a holding company that owns other fashion brands such as Massimo Dutti‚ Bershka‚ Pull and Bear‚ Stradivarius‚ Kiddy’s Class‚ and Oysho. The company still lives by the simple idea of Amacio Ortega to link customer demand to manufacturing and link manufacturing to distribution‚ which ultimately able to respond very quickly to the demands of targeted
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TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES AT CAVITE C.Q.T. AVENUE‚ SALAWAG‚ DASMARIÑAS‚ CAVITE NARRATIVE REPORT ON THE SUPERVISED INDUSTRIALTRAINING(SIT) RECELYN D. PILAR. ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY(ESET) ENOMOTO PHILIPPINES MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY GATEWAY BUSINESS PARK JAVALERA‚ GENERAL TRIAS‚ CAVITE NOVEMBER 05‚2013 TO JANUARY 2014 I. INTRODUCTION Supervised industrial training is one method by which students is given a chance
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of incentives offered‚ payment and delivery of product‚ the edge of their product and within the proper time frame. My paper intends to describe how Amazon.com uses the marketing mix to ensure an ideal environment for consumers‚ and displays how the 7ps are implemented. Amazon was founded in 1994 and is considered the largest e-commerce retailer in America. In 20 years this organization has become a fortune with 500 companies that have dominated the e-commerce market which has displayed unique growth
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management. Zara is known around the world as one of the most successful provider of fashion products. This paper presents a description of supply chain management including its elements and components. The different stages of Zara’s supply chain and their contributions to the overall efficiency and effectively of Zara’s business model are discussed. Lastly‚ the paper discusses the different metrics that are used by the firm in measuring supply chain performance. Introduction Zara is one
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1. How is strategic management illustrated by this case story? According to the case study Zara have a plan that involves an obvious and concentrated understanding of fashion‚ technology‚ and producing clothes they also can change their line according to the needs of the market as quick as possible they also practice strategic management and some of its evident starting in: 1) assigning goals Amancio Ortega’s goals was to produce (fast fashion). 2) Strategy planning Get products to the market
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Mission of Zara 1. Response very quickly to the demands of target customers‚ who were young‚ fashion-conscious city dwellers and their tastes in clothing changed rapidly and hard to predict 2. Take advantage of intelligence and trust the judgment of employees throughout the company instead of relying on a small set of decision makers SWOT Analysis SWOT analysis analyzes current situation of organization and identifies factors that may affect desired future outcomes of the organization
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