*Last update: 19/02/2008 Source: Inditex Website Brand Quantity Zara 1‚134 Pull and Bear 520 Massimo Dutti 426 Bershka 510 Stradivarius 383 Oysho 293 Zara Home 205 Kiddy ’s Class/Skhuaban 230 TOTAL 3‚701 Inditex‚ as stated on its website‚ is one of the world’s largest fashion distributors: nearly 6 million of items were put on the market in 2006 (Figure 1). With eight sales concepts Zara‚ Pull and Bear‚ Massimo Dutti‚ Bershka‚ Stradivarius‚ Oysho‚ Zara Home and Kiddy ’s Class they boast
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Analysis Inditex Group Unit Introduction- GBO Group Award: Global Trade and Business SCN: 0137219061 Candidate’s Name: Cristina Diaz Alama HND Centre Xianda College of Economics and Humanities Shanghai International Studies University Date: 2013/10/08 Assessment 1 Select a Global Business Organization and describe its development from inception through to its present status as a global trader. Describe its expansion including any global acquisitions and mergers
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Zara Case Study Main Problems Zara need to adapt their strategy to ensure future stability in meeting the demands of a larger customer base. The problems that they need to address are as follows; Rapid Organic growth outside of Spain – Zara have shifted focus into expanding overseas‚ specifically the Asia region. According to Exhibit 8‚ 120 new Zara stores were opened outside of Spain in 2010. Despite the current centralized distribution model working well and at below capacity‚ continuous rapid
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Press dossier Press 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
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CASE STUDY Zara The case describes how Zara‚ operating out of the Galician port of La Coruña in north-west Spain has managed to become a benchmark for speed and flexibility in the garment industry. The case offers an illustration of a fast-response global supply‚ production and retail network. In 2003 Zara was the only retailer that could deliver garments to its stores worldwide (507 in 33 countries) in just fifteen days after they were designed. It could do that because of its unique systems
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Zara is the flagship brand of the Spanish retail group‚ Inditex SA‚ one of the super-heated performers in a soft retail market in recent years. When Indtiex offered a 23 percent stake to the public in 2001‚ the issue was over-subscribed 26 times raising Euro2.1 billion for the company. Zara is unique model in business world today it has its own principles which may varies from its competitors in the same industry starting from production strategy ending with supply chain management strategy‚ these
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Case: Operations Strategy of Zara Question 1: Zara has a variety responsive supply chain. (a) Does it offer a competitive advantage‚ and (b) how does this affect supply chain design and performance? (a) Yes Zara’s responsive strategies improve the efficiency of information exchange in every level of supply chain; customers‚ store managers‚ designers and market specialists‚ production stuffs‚ subcontractors‚ buyers‚ warehouse managers‚ distributors‚ and so on. As a result of efficient exchange
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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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Inditex In 1963‚ Amancio Ortega opened for business enterprise manufacturing ladies’ gowns in a small workshop in A Coruña‚ since then its progress has been remarkable. Today‚ Inditex (Industria de Diseño Textil‚ SA) has become an international fashion retail composed of six business units: Zara‚ Pull & Bear‚ Massimo Dutti‚ Bershka‚ Stradivarius and Oysho. Its organizational structure consists of several departments‚ corporate headquarters‚ the six business units mentioned above and a number
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be analyse in this essay is Inditex and particularly Zara‚ its main brand. Inditex Group is a textile company‚ the most important in the Spanish textile sector and one of the most important multinational and one of the most weighty multinationals in Spain. A Multinational Corporation can be defined as enterprises which own or control production or service facilities outside the country in which they are based (definition by the UN; Czinkota‚ 1992; page 298). Inditex can be classified as a multinational
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