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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Recommendations The best way for Zara to maintain their sustainable growth is to seek new opportunities in the apparel market. With changing consumer behaviors as a result of globalization‚ and U.S. department stores suffering‚ there are growth options available for specialty retailers like Zara. Zara has the opportunity to be one of the trendiest/low priced retailers that America has seen recently. Zara should most likely develop a second central distribution center in the Americas to decrease
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OPERATIONS STRATEGY FOR ZARA COMPANY Operations strategy is the total pattern of decisions which shape the long-term capabilities of any type of operations and their contribution to the overall strategy‚ through the reconciliation of market requirements with operations resources. It is also a tool that helps to define the methods of producing goods or a service offered to the customer. Zara Company deals in the fashion industry. Zara’s success in the apparel industry is attributable to
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Introduction ZARA is one of the trendy garment retailers as an important brand in portfolio of Inditex. With development of technology and extension of market‚ ZARA has expanded to over 1‚500 stores in 44 countries‚ since founded at a Spanish town called La Coruña in 1975. In internationalization process‚ Zara employed various retailer formats‚ especially online shops‚ to complement weakness in traditional in-store purchase. Moreover‚ current development status of e-tailling is attractive for Zara to entry
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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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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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Literature is used as a medium to evoke self-reflection in an individual‚ the responders are forced to reconsider core values in which they live by. Robert gray explores the misplaced values of Australian society‚ suggesting that the focus has changed to materialism‚ personal gratification‚ consumerism and technological advancement. Through his exploration of the aesthetics of myopia and decay‚ which occur across both his poems‚ “North coast town” and “ Flames and Dangling wire” Gray
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Equity (CBBE) (Keller‚ 2008) Salience Zara is a well-known and ranked number one clothing brand in Spain‚ and it is the brand chain store of the Inditex Group owned which ranked number three in the world (INDITEX Group‚ 2012). Zara used fast fashion model – limited and variety. Zara resist a trend within the worldwide industrial- product manufacturing in low-cost area. That prove its product has a certain quality. Related to fast fashion‚ Zara has asserted that it only needs 2 weeks time to
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Strength Brand Zara is one of the famous national costume brands. There are about 2000 chain store at about 50 countries‚ and it be evaluated the most research value brand in the Europe. Zara has big potential development ability in the future Amount of clothing styles Zara always produced about 20 thousand kinds of styles clothes every year‚ so it gives some selections to different customers. Zara always give a fashion and strange feeling to customers. More selections and follow fashion
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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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