SAVONIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES UNIT OF BUSINESS AND ADMINISTRATION‚ KUOPIO THE IMPORTANCE OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT A case study of H&M Ding Huiru Business Administration Bachelor’s thesis International Business April 2011 2 SAVONIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES SAVONIA BUSINESS Degree Programme‚ option International Business Author(s) Ding Huiru Title of study The importance of strategic management‚ Case study of H&M Type of project Date Pages Thesis 27.4.2011 59+12 Supervisor(s)
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Zara: Case questions 1. Coordination of a supply chain is always important. However‚ such efforts are usually initiated by certain parties. For the global apparel industry‚ would it be more suitable for downstream or upstream parties to be the driver of the coordination? Motivate your answer with the use of two important characteristics of the apparel industry. 2. Clearly Zara has a strong relationship with all parties within the supply chain. a) Which of the following retailer-supplier relationships
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Week 2: Walmart’s Foreign Expansion 1. Do you think Walmart could translate its merchandising strategy wholesale to another country and succeed? If not‚ why not? I think it depends. On one hand‚ those countries where Walmart achieve its whosale business expansion successfully would like to accept this kind of American shopping style. Otherwise‚ it could fail due to the different shopping style shock. On the other hand‚ Walmart should pay much attention to promote its wholesale strategy to local
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Global Expansion of McDonalds Many American corporations have attempted to expand their business globally. Some of these corporations have succeeded‚ but some have also failed because they have encountered different cultural barriers and differences that made it hard for these corporations to succeed. One of those multinational corporations that have encountered a few cultural barriers as they began global expansion was none other than McDonald’s. Though McDonald’s has encountered
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Walmart’s Foreign Expansion Walmart has a merchandising strategy of everyday low prices and highly efficient operations‚ logistics‚ and information systems. This helps keep Walmart at a minimum inventory level and avoids overstocking and understocking. With major success in the United States‚ in the 90s it began to expand internationally‚ Mexico being the first. At first‚ Mexico did not do so well‚ since the consumers live a different life and have different buying patterns. Fresh produce was of
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The case of Zara: a supposed exception to globalization The article written by Nebath Tokatli is about the case of Zara‚ a fast fashion retailer company supposed to be an exception to the global trend of this sector. The author‚ after a brief introduction in which she declares her purpose to demonstrate this idea to be false‚ starts describing the change in the culture of fashion from “houte couture” and ready-to-wear too fast fashion. Fast fashion retailers do not directly invest in design
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Case Study # 1 – Zara / Due 10/13 – 10 pts / Professor Conrad Zara is one of the world’s largest and fastest growing apparel retailers‚ owing to a unique blend of business practices and an internal culture that many might say run “counter-intuitive” to those of competing U.S. retailers. More recently‚ however‚ industry analysts have started to suggest that the “fast fashion” business model that has made Zara so successful over the past decade has run its course and the very notion of disposable
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successful Supply Chain Management at Zara‚ a flagship chain store of Inditex Group based in A Coruña‚ Spain. The Make-Buy decision The make or buy decision entails choosing between manufacturing a product in-house or purchasing it from an external supplier. When making this decision‚ the two most important factors to consider are cost and
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Informal Letter Dear Mimi‚ How are you my dear sister? I hope you are fine. Don’t worry about me; I am very fine. I am now a very strong young man you know. How are those wonderful brothers of mine? Pass them my greetings. I received you letter. Thanks a million for writing. The brothers and sisters in my congregation are fine. I am only sorry to heat that Br. Banda is still sick. I hope he will recover soon. My journey back here was fine‚ though it was quite a long one. I wanted to travel
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Samantha McNamara 1818 Red River Basin In 1818 America and Great Britain edited a treaty that was made in 1812. The treaty made in 1812‚ Treaty of Ghent‚ had settled the war in 1812. This treaty had to do with the territory of present day Minnesota and North Dakota. When they edited the treaty in 1814 it was decided that the United States and Britain would share the Oregon Territory (The). This change lasted until 1846. The Oregon territory became the northern border of the famous Louisiana
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