ZARA Case Assignment 1. With which international competitor listed in the case is it most useful to compare Inditex’s financial performance? What do comparisons indicate about Inditex’s operating economics? Why? There are 3 key international competitors mentioned in the case: The Gap‚ H&M and Benetton. The Gap‘s production was internationalized with more than 90% of it outsourced outside of the United States. Its stores‚ however‚ were US centric. Therefore‚ The Gap’s strategy was to own
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2. Zara’s product cycle was much better than its competitors. Zara was able to originate a design and have finished goods in stores in 4-5 weeks for entirely new designs. The industry model was 6 months for design and 3 months for manufacturing. Zara produces 11‚000 items a year as compared to 2‚000-4‚000 by competitors. 3. Zara’s quick product cycle created a sense of scarcity and a “buy now or miss it” mentality among customers. Zara shoppers visited the chain 17 times a year‚ compared with an
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STARHUB • One of the leading fully-integrated info-communication companies of Singapore is StarHub. • This company is completely associated with the operations of telecommunications services. • StarHub Ltd. offers a vast range of communications‚ entertainment and information services to both direct and corporate market consumers. • It delivers the fastest mobile network services in Singapore and also offers multi channel satellite TV services. Besides these services‚ StarHub
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By Wendy –Zara exericse 1 Q5. Who are the customer ? The target market is broad‚ women‚ men‚ children that likes fashion and is sensitive to fashion. Q6 .Who are the customers‚ and what product/ service attributes do they consider important? The target market is very broad‚ Zara do not define their target by segmenting ages and lifestyles like what traditional retailers are doing. Its target market is working in big cities‚ with mid range income‚ a young‚ educated person that likes
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MGMT 6620: Operations & SCM HBS Case Study Zara: IT for Fast Fashion 4/9/2013 1. What is the Zara “business model”? What weaknesses‚ if any‚ do you seen in this business model? The value propositions offered by Zara to its main customers who are young‚ fashion conscious city-dwellers is offering new styles within the time-frame of several weeks as well as providing assortment of choices for customers and the uniqueness of clothing styles fitting individual customer needs. To achieve
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ara * 1. ZARA: Fast Fashion Case Study M anagement I nformation S ystems January 26‚ 2010 Presented By: Group- 1 * 2. Agenda About Company Information Systems Analysis & Conclusion * 3. About the Company * 4. ZARA Zara‚ the most profitable brand of Inditex SA the Spanish clothing retail group‚ opened its first store in 1975 in La Coruña‚ Spain operations into 45 countries with 531 stores located in the most important shopping districts of more than 400 cities in Europe‚ the Americas
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MARKETING MIX A.I.U. ABSTRACT You will read why you should purchase the product Xtra laundry detergent over Gain laundry detergent. By learning about the 4P’s in the marketing. I chose to do my marketing report on Xtra laundry detergent. It is interesting to me because maybe people don’t really pay attention to how much money they
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ZARA: IT For Fast Fashion 1. Is Zara’s business model scalable ? No‚ Zara’s business model is not scalable Reasons: • • • • Though Zara is able to do well in a dynamic market‚ most of the sales of Zara come from Spain (46%) and from women’s segment (73.3%). Hence it becomes very difficult for Zara to scale it up to other countries and other segments. Zara follows decentralized model where store managers have lot a of power – It is very difficult to find such efficient people once we they scale
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Marketing Mix 3rd Term Project Corporate Wars (guidelines and topics to be covered in the project) a) I H S logo page b) Bonafide Certificate c) Acknowledgement d) Methodology e) Index f) Introduction to the topic Corporate Wars (Definition and Meaning) g) Marketing Warfare Strategies (offensive‚ defensive‚ guerrilla ‚ flanking) – general information of what is the meaning of marketing warfare strategies and the meaning of each type of strategy mentioned above or any other found on net
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services. Traditionally‚ these considerations were known as the 4Ps — Product‚ Price‚ Place and Promotion. As marketing became a more sophisticated discipline‚ a fifth ‘P’ was added — People. And recently‚ two further ‘P’s were added‚ mainly for service industries — Process and Physical evidence. These considerations are now known as the 7Ps of marketing‚ sometimes referred to as the marketing mix. 1. Product There is no point in developing a product or service that no one wants to buy‚ yet
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