CASE STUDY ANALYSIS: ZARA Name Institution Professor Course Date Table of Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. Strategic Issues Underpinning the Buying Decisions at Zara 3 3. Zara’s Product Mix Strategy: Advantages and Disadvantages 6 4. Conclusion 8 REFERENCES 10 1. Introduction Zara is a successful retail clothing company that expanded over the years due to its elaborate supply chain and excellent product mix strategy. The company established in 1963 opened its first store in 1975
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billion in annual sales with the highest profit margin in the retailing industry. M & S is encountering some difficulties in logistics because it has lengthy logistics procedures forcing the retailer to order 9 months in advance. Competitors like Zara have very fast and efficient logistics with excellent lead time. Nimble competitors are offering low prices as well as achieving many deliveries per year of new fashion items. M&S decided to pursue a new strategy of improving their product appeal
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STUDY ANALYSIS February 21‚ 2008 Sommaire I- Introduction 3 II- Analysis 4 III- SWOT Analysis 6 IV- Solutions 7 V- Recommendations 9 I- Introduction This case study presents two companies‚ Marks & Spencer and Zara‚ which are active in the apparel industry‚ and examines supply chains and the product-process linkages of both companies. Marks & Spencer‚ originally named Penny Bazaars‚ was founded by Michael Marks in 1884 in Northern England as a clothing sales
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The main objective of their marketing activities is to react swiftly: Zara is able to design‚ produce and deliver the product to the customer in just one month. The main reason for this is that Zara does not forecast the designed clothing. Fabrics and garments are the only materials to be purchased on the basis of forecasts. Their main strength is to capture real-time information on the shop floor and develop designs on the basis of this information: so-called ‘commercial managers’ conceptualize
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Five forces : New Entry (Low to Medium) * New entrants will have to deal with high and large fixed cost * incentive because of profitability of zara * newest fashion at an inexpensive price * Zara as part of the Spanish Inditex Group‚ can benefit from the micro-economic concept of the Economies of Scale. Hence it gains cost advantages as production (scale) increases * Zara is operating within the market of “fast fashion” hence size as well as economic efficiency matter. Inditex’s
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Price strategy -> low prices‚ high fashion. Physiological prices. Designer -> much attention. Discount -> student discount. ZARA Price ZARA offers fashion at reasonable prices by following the most up to date fashion trends. ZARA has clothes that are fresh of the runway but they sell it for an affordable price. ZARA uses also physiological prices just like H&M. ZARA is more expensive than H&M but the quality of the clothes are also better. They do not use discounts. But when the clothes are old
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This paper integrates elements from the theory of agency‚ the theory of property rights and the theory of finance to develop a theory of the ownership structure of the firm. We focus in this paper on the behavioral implications of the property rights specified in the contracts between the owners and managers of the firm. The possibility of monitoring the behavior of the company by means of review of controls has stayed aside in this analysis. In the activity they can use resources for changing
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and cost effective. Old fashion physical channels of transmitting information are replaced with a simple click in the World Wide Web (www) virtual environment (Laudon & Laudon‚ 2010). ZARA case study 1. Company presentation Inditex Group is one of the biggest fashion retailers in the world owning more than 100 companies operating in different sectors of activity. Its unique business model set the basis for one of the leading brands in international fashion industry called Zara. Zara
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In what ways are elements of the classical management and behavioral management approaches evident at Zara International? Inditex’s group known a ZARA had implemented elements of both classical management and behavioral management approaches. Starting off with the Classical Management‚ ZARA has used some of the principles of Henri Fayol’s Administrative principles. Building their business model to identify the following five “duties” of management‚ which are foundations for the four functions of
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products. Chuck questioned if the current cost-management system was providing the management with accurate data about product costs. In a traditional‚ volume-based product-costing system‚ only a single predetermine overhead rate is used. All manufacturing-overhead costs are combined into one cost pool‚ a grouping of individual indirect cost items‚ and they are applied to products on the basis of a single variable that costs over a given time span (cost driver) that is closely related to production
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