Case Study: Zara: IT for Fashion Background Zara‚ high fashion clothing producer and retailer‚ opened its first store in Galicia‚ Spain in 1975‚ and by 2003‚ had grown to 550 stores worldwide. Zara is the largest holding of its mother company‚ Inditex‚ and is evaluating whether to invest in modernizing its IT infrastructure‚ specifically its in-store Point-of-Sale (POS) terminals which are running a DOS Operating System that is now EOL. Business Model Zara has a unique and very effective business
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1. With which of the international competitors listed in the case is it most interesting to compare Inditex’s financial results? Why? What do comparisons indicate about Inditex’s relative operating economics? Its relative capital efficiency? We think H&M’s financial results are the most interesting one to compare with Inditex’s. H&M is the most important and largest competitor of Inditex and due to their similar background‚ both being large international European apparel brands and offers fashionable
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INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT 1. What makes Zara different from other specialty apparel retailers? What are the main differences in the business models of Zara and H&M? Zara’s greatest strength and at the same time the difference from other specialty apparel retailers lies in its supply chain ‚ which allows Zara to turn over new styles in a fraction of the time ( three weeks ) it takes conventional retailers. It is interesting how the two leading fashion retailers ( Zara and H&M ) have totally opposite
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Spanish retailer‚ Zara‚ has crafted a sweet success story riding on its image as a low-cost‚ high fashion store. Nirmalya Kumar and Sophie Linguri take to the High Street to look at Zara’s route from rags to riches. I n 1975‚ the first Zara store was opened in La Coruña‚ in Northwest Spain. By 2005‚ Zara’s 723 stores had a selling area of 811‚100 square metres in 56 countries. With sales of e3.8 billion in the financial year 2004‚ Zara had become Spain’s best-known fashion brand and the flagship
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The 2 1st-centur y Supply Chain Spanish clothier Zara t urn s the rules o f supply chain management on thei r head. The result? A superresponsive network and p rofi t margins t ha t are the envy o fth e industry. ire Fiilflllment by K asr a Michael A. Lewis‚ and Jose A.D. Machuca !04 W hen a German w holesale r suddenly canceled L1 big lingerie order in 1975‚ Amancio Or- tet;;a t hough t his fledgling clothing company might go b ankrupt . All his capittil was tied up in
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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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ZARA CASE 1. Which theory is the best representative of Zara’s (Index’s) internationalization? Zara has applied the Uppsala internationalization model to their strategy‚ and even more than that. This theory shows that international activities require both general knowledge and market-specific knowledge. Therefore‚ the more understanding the company has in a specific market‚ the more value and succeed they can create. That is also exactly what Zara applied to their internationalization strategy during
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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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Strategic Management Seminar 1 A Case Study: H&M in fast fashion: continued success I Dr. Maria Balta Questions 3/10/15 1. In which areas does H&M have strategic capabilities and what are they? 2. What are H&M’s threshold and distinctive resources and competences? 3. In what areas and functions do H&M’s strategic capabilities provide for competitive advantage? 4. To what extent can they be sustained? Brunel University London Presentation Title 2 H&M in fast fashion: continued success I 3/10/15
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ADVANTAGE *IN THE* FAST FASHION Fast fashion is a term used to describe clothing collections which are based on the most recent fashion trends presented at Fashion Week in both the spring and the autumn of every year. These trends are designed and manufactured quickly and cheaply to allow the mainstream consumer to take advantage of current clothing styles at a lower price. This chapter highlights the sources of competitive advantage that may exist inside the field of fast fashion‚ as shown in Figure
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