Page 1 of 2 ASSIGNMENT 1ST SEMESTER : STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT (STRM) BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 3 (BM303) CHAPTERS COVERED : CHAPTERS 1 - 5 DUE DATE : 3:00 p.m. 18 MARCH 2014 TOTAL MARKS : 100 CASE STUDY : ZARA CLOTHING INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES FOR COMPLETING AND SUBMITTING ASSIGNMENTS The complete ‘Instructions to Students for Completing and Submitting Assignments’ must be collected from any IMM GSM office‚ the relevant IMM GSM recognised Additional Tuition
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Introduction Zara has established itself successfully over the course of five years since the opening of its first retail store in Spain in 1975. We must now consider further opportunities of growth with a sole purpose of gaining further international recognition in order to maintain our mark as a top leader in the retail industry amidst the competition of the fashion industry. Across the region in Asia‚ Europe and Middle East‚ my choice of Zara’s next expansion to branch into is Hong Kong. This
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Admiration Project (ZARA) 9.19.12 So what is Zara? Many people have probably never heard of the clothing/fashion brand named Zara. Even if you have heard of Zara‚ the chances of you seeing Zara on any poster or television advertisements is very slim. In fact the Spanish clothing retailer has a very unusual marketing strategy. Zara has a “zero advertising policy.” With almost no money going into advertisement‚ how is Zara able to compete with competitors? Unlike competitors‚ Zara only spends about
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assurances by contract with Zara. The vendor also informed Zara that they are the vendor’s only customer still running DOS based applications. Store managers at Zara also utilize handheld PDA for inventory purposes and for ordering new inventory‚ the use of which are not necessarily as effective as alternate technologies. There is a risk that the terminal vendor will make changes in the future and as such‚ they will no longer make terminals that are DOC compatible‚ leaving Zara to face obsolescence 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’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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hours. Zara produces up to 11‚000 items per year while its competitors produce only 2‚000 items approximately‚ this ability able Zara to replace undesirable goods with the preferred one in short notice. According to the short product life-cycle strategy‚ Zara create the sense of scarcity‚ which lead to the customer’s awareness about purchasing the goods right away after it is launched. The finding shows that Zara shopper visits the chain 17 times a year compared with 3-4 times a year for Zara competitors
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Zara Zara varies in price‚ promotion‚ and positioning from some of its main competitors‚ H&M and Gap. Zara uses very little of its budget on promotion and marketing and relies more on its store windows to advertise its name to the public. Zara also places stores in busy areas and predominantly in more affluent areas in order to attract the most customers who will have the financial resources to purchase clothes from them. Zara’s store windows are designed to capture and entice customers and
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dealing with significant purchases. Priceline.com is a travel service that offers leisure airline tickets‚ hotel rooms‚ rental cars‚ vacation packages and cruises. Priceline.com also has a personal finance service that offers home mortgages‚ refinancing and home equity loans through an independent licensee. Price sensitivity is the extent to which price is an important criterion in the customer ’s decision- making process; thus a price sensitive customer is likely to notice a price
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Mary Rose Batoon Fashion Retail Branding and Promotion Professor Dena Strong March 3‚ 2015 Zara 1. What are the Main Challenges in the business model adopted by Zara? Based on weaknesses and threats on Zara SWOT analysis‚ the main challenges they are facing today are the high dependence on European Markets‚ Intense completion in the retail market‚ Rising labor wages‚ especially in Europe‚ and the risk of foreign exchange fluctuations. Others also include the problems faced by management in the organization
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