2012 Zara Marketing Audit MBA-USQ 11: MKT5000 University of Applied Sciences Zurich (HWZ) Switzerland Supervised by: Prof. Richard Beswick Anja Anastasja Keller U1028905 23.08.2012 MBA-USQ 11: MKT5000 Written Assignment I: Zara Marketing Audit‚ Anja Anastasja Keller‚ U1028905 Executive Summary Zara is a publicly listed company and belongs to the Inditex Group‚ founded by Amancio Ortega in 1975 in Spain. Zara always continues to bring excitement to fashion and fulfils customer
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“Fashion starts from you” It is truly said that fashion always starts from us (people) it is a temporary phase of materialistic life‚ which is highlighted and adopted by the consumers as a style or trend. From the production to runways and to the final consumers it goes through several processes‚ which are know as product development process. Executive Summary Ever since Guccio Gucci founded the house in Florence in 1921‚ the brand has been a destination for the world’s most discerning men
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year. In addition‚ ZARA has more designers than competitors in order to create sophisticated and attractive products. b. Production ZARA prepares very limited volumes of new items to analyze customer’s reaction‚ lowering failure rates‚ approximately 1%‚ on new products. c. Marketing and Sales Central distribution centers control all of merchandise and ship twice a week to each retail store‚ which gives customer impressions of freshness of ZARA’s offering. In addition‚ ZARA limits production runs
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T.K.Maxx and Zara are very different retailers in the fashion industry. Whilst one offers low cost designer labels the other retails quality own-brand labelled clothes at a reasonable price. Zara sets itself apart from the giant market place by celebrating its motive to offer exactly what the customer wants‚ going to detective levels to make sure they understand their audience’s wishes. T.K.Maxx on the other-hand distinguishes itself by reducing prices of designer labels by up to 60%‚ and these are
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You are asked to read: Zara: IT for Fast Fashion. Then‚ you are required to use the following questions to format/organize your response (for the sake of brevity and clarity limit yourself to answering the questions concisely). Please read all the instructions carefully and comply by all of them. Please do not bypass/ignore the instructions or requirements—else points will be deducted. I. Problem Definition 1a. What is the key problem facing Zara executives? 1b. What are the sub-components of
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Term paper -Foundations of computing FAST FOOD AUTOMATION SYSTEM Submitted to: Submitted by: Table of contents: 1. Acknowledgement 2. Introduction 3. Proposed system (a) Description (b) System requirements 4. Requirement analysis 5. System design 6. Source code 7. Testing 8. Future scope 9. Bibliography AKNOWLEDGEMENT As usual large number of
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Strategy: Case Study of Zara – Internationalisation in China 1. Introduction and Background Amongst the motivations to strategise are to grow fast ahead of the competitors‚ grow in the line with the industry or to simply catch up and defend an existing status. Despite the challenges‚ threats and risks‚ the orientation of various firms are to expand‚ to reach and to penetrate new markets segments. The working title of the research is initially drafted as – Market Entry Strategy: Case Study
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Distribution and Consumer Research Vol. 20‚ No. 1‚ February 2010‚ 165–173 Fast fashion: response to changes in the fashion industry Vertica Bhardwaj* and Ann Fairhurst Retail and Consumer Sciences‚ The University of Tennessee‚ Knoxville‚ USA (Received June 2009; final version received October 2009) The fashion apparel industry has significantly evolved‚ particularly over the last 20 years. The changing dynamics of the fashion industry have forced retailers to desire low cost and flexibility in design
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PLANETA ZARA | Production Management | Sara Landa Gonzalez | TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Inditex Group …………………………………………………………………...2 1.1 Strategies …………………………………………………………………...2 1 Zara …………………………………………………………………...3 2.2 Business Model …………………………………………………………...3 2.3 Competitive advantage …………………………………………………...3 2.4.1 Short lead time …………………………………………………...4 2.4.2 Lower quantities …………………………………………………...4 2.4.3 More styles …………………………………………………………
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The Fashion Channel Case Analysis Problem Statement: The case of the Fashion Channel exhibited possible failures and multiple problems. After thorough review of the case I felt the core problem is the failure to focus on a specific demographic. TFC had run off the marketing strategy of “something-for-everyone” for plenty of years and found success in this untouched niche of fashion television. Without competition‚ this marketing mentality had been very profitable‚ and started drawing up attention
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