Case discussion ZARA: FAST FAHION 1) What is Zara’s basis of competitive advantage? How does it travel globally? At the heart of Zara ’s success is a vertically integrated business model spanning design‚ just-in-time production‚ marketing and sales. The key to this model is the ability to adapt the offer to customers desires in the shortest time possible. For Zara ‚ time is the main factor to be considered‚ above and beyond production cost. The group believed that vertical integration gave
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FOCUSING MARKETING STRATEGY WITH SEGMENTATION AND POSITIONING Understanding Markets Strategy planning to narrow down the process - understand your customers Identify the market based on the marketing mix - 4 Ps Don’t just focus on the product‚ e.g.‚ Hallmark sells more than just greeting cards Generic markets: market with similar needs and sellers offering diverse to satisfy those needs Product market: market with very similar needs and sellers offering various close substitute ways of satisfying
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evolving to deliver customers satisfaction. Zara‚ the most profitable brand of Spain clothing retail group Inditex‚ has leveraged its unique strategy to achieve success and will be expected to maintain a sustainable growth in the fashion industry. Zara’s core competencies can be divided into four areas: process development‚ distribution‚ marketing and integrated business structure (referred to Appendix 1). Zara’s unique process development allowed Zara to produce in a shorter cycle time and more
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chapter 1 Developing Yourself as an Effective Learning and Development Practitioner In t r od u c t Io n This chapter begins with a look at what is required of L&D professionals and how L&D roles are specified. We discuss the CIPD HR Profession Map and how we can use it to assess our professional development needs. We then move on to look at how we deliver our L&D service‚ considering: who are our customers‚ how well do we meet their needs and what can we do to improve our service delivery. In
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Cited: Johnson‚ Steven. The Ghost Map. New York City: Penguin Group USA Inc. ‚ 2006.
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Planimetric Map. A planimetric map presents only the horizontal positions for the features represented. It is distinguished from a topographic map by the omission of relief‚ normally represented by contour lines. Sometimes‚ it is called a line map. Topographic Map. A topographic map portrays terrain features in a measurable way‚ as well as the horizontal positions of the features represented. The vertical positions‚ or relief‚ are normally represented by contour lines on military topographic maps. On maps
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Positioning Strategy: By creating product‚ service‚ channel‚ people and image differentiation Nestle arrives the consumer touch point more easily‚ effectively & efficiently in comparing with other competitors in the highly competitive food processing market. Product Differentiation : Nestle brings a many of product for target customers. They make available 25 types of minerals in Nido for children. It also arranged Cereals’ and Lactogen 1 &3 for newly born baby exclusively. Now the doctors
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segmentation and positioning of Zara Segmentation Strategy The segmentation strategy employed by the fashion retailer Zara is based one the typical demographics of the customers like gender‚ age and psychographics. However aside from this the company also targets customer is based on their sense of fashion and style e.g.‚ contemporary‚ trendy‚ classic‚ grunge‚ Latino etc. (Safe‚ 2007) The ethnicity of the brand as well as its target market is blended by Zara in its product offering which match
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Corporate Strategy – Zara The core concept of Zara ’s business model is they sell "medium quality fashion clothing at affordable prices"‚ and vertical integration and quick-response is key to Zara ’s business model. Through the entire process of Zara ’s business system: designing‚ sourcing and manufacturing‚ distribution and retailing‚ they presented four fundamental success factors: short cycle time‚ small batches per product‚ extensive variety of product every season and heavy investment in
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analysis of Zara - fast fashion Structure of paper analysis: ∙Description of Zara ∙Achievement and core competence ∙Problem analysis ∙SWOT of Zara ∙Recommendation ●Description of Zara Zara was founded in La Coruna in 1975‚ which is one of the largest international fashion brands of Inditex. At 1985‚ the Inditex became the holding company atop Zara and other retail chains. The customer is at the heart of the Zara’s business model. Zara use the
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