CNN.com - Zara‚ a Spanish success story - June 15 2001 http://edition.cnn.com/BUSINESS/programs/yourbus... MAINPAGE EUROPE WORLD WEATHER BUSINESS markets market data technology tech markets currencies biz international SCI-TECH ENTERTAINMENT IN-DEPTH NEWS BRIEF SPORT Zara‚ a Spanish success * story June 15‚ 2001 Posted: 4:37 AM EDT (0837 GMT) Your Business Your World Success without sweatshops • Zara does things differently LONDON‚ England (CNN) -- In an era when clothing retailers
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information has been sourced from electronic journals such as Emerald‚ business websites‚ respected newspapers and The H&M company website‚ from which this Marketing Planning Process will be based. Business and Marketing theories have been gathered from marketing gurus and scholars such as Jobber‚ Kotler and Porter. Primary research will also be gathered in the form of studying the local H&M stores. The Marketing Planning Process. Business Mission Marketing Audit SWOT Analysis
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Zara’s financial performance? Since only Inditex historical financials are shown in the case‚ we took the financials of Inditex to describe Zara’s financial performance. It is reasonable to take Inditex financial data because Zara made up 76% of Inditex’s sales in 2001. Zara (Inditex) Financial Performance in 1996-2001 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 Liquidity Ratio (current ratio) 0.81 1.00 0.88 0.87 0.90 1.02 Leverage Ratio (debt/ equity) 1.98 1.84 1.97 1.98 1.80 0.75 Profitability
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segments at once or whether they should pick them off one at a time? In this case‚ Benetton invade all the segments at once around the world. Segmentation looking for doing quite a lot use of the resources‚ however Benetton count on a wide range of resources due to Benetton is a good brand. For this reason‚ Benetton is able to go to all markets around the world. It is an international brand‚ everybody knows Benetton and when they hear or see this brand‚ immediately it is associated to its shock advertisements
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H&M international human resources report 1) Introduction H&M is an international clothing brand that was founded in Västerås; Sweden in 1947 by Erling Persson and now sells clothes around 38 countries on four continents with more than 2200 stores. It has been expanding strongly for many years‚ the staff are spread throughout the whole world this places a great demand of H&M as an employer. H&M does not own any factories but has a heavy control in all of them ensuring that
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……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 3 1. E-marketing as new competition field …………………………………………………………………………….. 3 2. H&M facts ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 3 II. HM.com as an example of great e-marketing ……………………………………………………………….... 4 1. H&M website’s development of existing business practice and channels of communication 4 2. Reasons to “buy-into” H&M online experience ……………………………………………………………….. 5 3. Organization’s user-friendliness and security concerns ……………………………………………………
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Political factor will influence the H&M and the fast fashion industry ‚ for example ‚ the export regulation and also the political stability of the regions that the company operates in. H&M is a Swedish company so the company will comply with the Swedish legislations and in other countries of the subsidiaries company the laws ‚ regulatory bodies and politics are subject to the countries itself. Due to its global position ‚ minimal political risk is exposed to the company but it doesn’t affect much
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in direct marketing strategy. H&M as many other companies has its website where you can find important information about the company from information connected with online shopping where it has women‚ men‚ kids‚ home‚ sale‚ gift cards‚ Magazine‚ customer service 24h/7‚ store locator‚ shopping bag‚ H&M newsletter ‚ other information about the company behind the scene activities such their sustainability campaign and corporation info at the very bottom of the page. H&M website is available around the
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http://about.hm.com/en/About/Investor-Relations/FinancialReports/Annual-Reports.html#cm-menu 2. http://about.hm.com/content/dam/hm/about/documents/en/ci sion/2014/06/1354053_en.pdf 3. http://Blog.hm.com 4. Primary source of Supply chain model from H&M Indian logistics head & senior Merchandiser.
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Zara Case Global apparel chain are characterized by unique combinations of high value research‚ design that they have been pursued for quite some time. Almost more than 30% percent of world production apparel was exported. Lots of company making their manufacturing production on the developing country‚ because of some factor of the cheap labor intensive. Some country are keen to supply their product to the country that has a very low quote restrictions like China supply their product to Japan
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