merchandising system is essential to the success of any retail business. I intend to focus this merchandising report on Zara‚ a ladies fashion retailer and HMV‚ an entertainment megastore. These two companies have specific buying and merchandising strategies‚ which are tailored to the needs of their products. This report will explore the similarities and differences within each company ’s strategies‚ and identify factors that determine them. Range Selection and Planning When selecting merchandise it needs
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Case study I.1 Zara: the Spanish retailer goes to the top of world fashion Zara (www.inditex.com) is a fashion retail chain of Inditex Group owned by the Spanish businessman‚ Amancio Ortega‚ who also owns brands such as Massimo Dutti‚ Pull & Bear‚ Oysho‚ Uterqüe‚ Stradivarius and Bershka. The Inditex group (of which Zara is a part) is headquartered in La Coruña‚ northwest Spain‚ where the first Zara store opened in 1975. It is claimed that Zara needs just two weeks to develop a new product
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supply chain explaining how it supports the "fast fashion" model. Zara‚ Spanish clothing with retail chain throughout the world is probably the world’s fastest growing retailer with almost a thousand stores. Zara has it own unique business model that enabled Zara to be compete with its competitors‚ and it’s driven by Zara’s "fast fashion" with its vertically integrated supply chain. Vertically integrated supply chain allowed Zara to successfully build up a strong retail chain combine with the forces
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International Pricing-15 What is a Price? * Revenue received by a business in exchange for benefits provided * Customers give-up in exchange for the benefits they receive * Costs include: money‚ time effort‚ opportunities General Factors in Price Determination * True markets (customers have options) price determined by a combo of cust/co. issues including: * Pricing obj. of business‚ business constraints‚ gen pricing strategies‚ customer influences‚ competitive forces
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Company Overview Zara is one of the largest and the most internationalized retailers that Inditex Group owns. Inditex Group is based in Spain‚ which is a global specialty retailer that designs‚ manufactures‚ and sells apparel‚ footwear‚ and accessories for women‚ men and children around the world. Zara’s history The founder of Zara‚ Amancio Ortega‚ opened the first Zara store in 1975 in a central street in La Caruña‚ Spain. It was first featured as low-priced look-alike products of popular‚ higher-end
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most popular strategies for many firms to leverage brand equity (Monga & John‚ 2010; Tom‚ Kelly & Ravi‚ 2012). Zara as one of the world’s most successful fast fashion brand (FFB) retailers has applied brand extension into its brand development. The purpose of this report is to examine the brand extensions strategy of Zara which include these areas: the marketing objectives of brand extension‚ the relationship between competitive advantage of Zara and the brand extension strategy‚ the model
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employee’s teamwork and work because it will be impossible for employees to help each other when they compete against one another and they will not share their own successful tactics and strategies‚ but competition against a goal will make employees help each other and they will share their own successful tactics and strategies for achieving the goal as soon as possible. And competition against a goal can make every employee has chance to get award and be succeed. So competition against a goal will
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MANAGING TRANSFER PRICING Sarbanes-Oxley requires a company to establish that it has internal controls to ensure accurate financial reporting and that the auditor attest to the assessment of those controls. An obvious concern for all multinationals after SOX is whether there are effective controls in place to deal with transfer pricing exposure. An increasingly important element of transfer pricing documentation relates to the influence of legislation‚ ethical standards‚ and associated matters
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Abuse of dominance: Predatory Pricing Submitted by: Radhika Sahay (Intern; May 2012 – June 2012) ------------------------------------------------- DISCLAIMER 4 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 5 CASES 6 LIST OF BOOKS‚ JOURNAL ARTICLES‚ REPORTS 8 LIST OF STATUTES REFFERED 11 CHAPTER1: BACKGROUND 12 CHAPTER 2: ABUSE OF DOMINANCE 15 2.1 Relevant Market: 16 2.2 Dominant Position: 20 a. Indian Position on indentifying “dominance” 20 DEFINITION OF DOMINANCE AND KEY ELEMENTS: 22 IMPORTANCE
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The middle-aged mother buys clothes at the Zara chain because they are cheap‚ while her daughter aged in the mid-20s buys Zara clothing because it is fashionable. Clearly‚ Zara is riding two of the winning retail trends - being in fashion and low prices - and making a very effective combination out of it. Much talked about‚ especially since its parent company’s IPO in 2001‚ often admired‚ sometimes reviled‚ but hardly ever ignored‚ Zara has been an interesting case study for many other retailers
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