Zara: Apparel Q 1. Ans: Having a very responsible supply chain Zara is enable to keep store inventory to a minimum‚ and keep a fast turnaround of new products. This encourages customers to buy the product as soon as they see it in a store because the same product might not be there the next time and Zara does not always send stores the same product twice. Q 2. Ans : Zara does manufacture some clothing in Asia‚ but not to save cost. It is to save time in supplying the Asian market and to keep its
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becoming increasingly common. How do you think Zara should adjust its distribution system to deal with this growing phenomenon? An important factor in the Zara brand success story is consistency in who’s running the show. Approximately 92 percent of all six-hundred-fifty-something locations are owned entirely by Zara‚ allowing for greater control over the brand’s execution strategy. Also‚ the ability to produce over half of its own product enables Zara to churn out new clothing lines every few weeks
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Lecture 5 External Environment Parts of these slides are material developed and copyrighted by Johnson‚ Scholes & Whittington (2006) and Lynch (2006) Sustainable Competitive Advantage • One of the main purposes of analysing competitors is to explore where and how sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) can be generated • Public service and not-for-profit organisations may also wish to explore SCA as they may be in competition for finance from external bodies • SCA will probably require
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Case Memo: Zara Fast Fashion 1. With which of the international competitors listed in the case is it most interesting to compare Inditex’s financial results? Why? What do comparisons indicate about Inditex’s relative operating economics? Indeed comparing the financial performance of Inditex with the key competitors‚ Inditex was the most profitable company in terms of ROIC. In terms of revenues‚ income and size‚ H&M shows that it is the most interesting to compare. Inditex has a store number
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Competitors’ customers Even though Zara can survive with the highest market share in the clothing market‚ still there are those competitors out there that Zara might gain more of their customers if it applied new marketing strategies . There’ 4 main competitors that the company should consider‚ including H&M‚ Mango‚ Uniqlo and Gap. For H&M ‚it has the customers that are mostly similar to Zara which mostly are women that are into fashionable clothes‚ want to follow the trends but are more price-conscious
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customer preferences that can shift literally overnight‚ product lifecycles measured in weeks‚ and the value of your product plummeting if you miss the latest trend. Welcome to the world of fast fashion. Donald Sull and Stefano Turconi examine how Zara‚ a leader in the industry‚ has pioneered an approach to navigate the volatility of fast fashion‚ offering lessons for any company facing rapidly changing markets. Ffaassthion lessons Haute couture has always been a fairly staid affair. Big-name
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CHAPTER Marketing Channels Delivering 12 Customer Value PRE VIEWING We now arrive at the third marketing mix tool—distribution. Firms rarely work alone in creating value for customers and building profitable customer relationships. Instead‚ most THE CONCEPTS are only a single link in a larger supply chain and marketing channel. As such‚ an individual firm’s success depends not only on how well it performs but also on how well its entire marketing channel competes with competitors’ channels
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Porter analysis of Zara Zara fashion chain‚ with 546 stores in 30 countries today from which 340 are outside Spain- and 2914‚3 millions of total sales in 2002‚ is undoubtedly the group’s locomotive (Inditex‚ 2003). In 2002 it represented 33% of the group’s total stores‚ accounted for 72% of the group’s total sales and contributed to the holding’s total profits for 540.4 millions (Inditex FY2002 Results Presentation‚ 2003). Moreover‚ Zara with 75-90 new stores within 2003 takes the lion’s share
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Running head: Zara Case Paper Analysis 1 Zara: IT for Fast Fashion Case Analysis Sonal Bhagwat University of Houston-Victoria MGMT 6352-2011FA-25125 November 2011 Zara Case Paper Analysis 2 Table of Contents: • Abstract 3 • Case Description 4 • Goals and Strategy 5 - Speed and Decision-making 5 - Marketing‚ Merchandising‚ and Advertising 6 - Information Technology 6 • Problem Analysis Firm-based-value chain model
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7 Industry Threats82.3 Organization82.3.1 Strengths82.3.2 Weakness92.4 Marketing Strategy92.4.1 Objectives92.4.2 Analysis of Sales‚ Profit and Market Share92.4. 3 Analysis of target market(s)102.4.4 Analysis of Marketing Mix Variables112.4.5 Summary of Marketing strategy ’s strength and Weakness:123.0 Problems found in Situation analysis123.1 Primary Problem123.2 Secondary Problem134.0 Strategic Alternatives for Solving Problems134.1 Description of Strategic Alternative 1134.2 Description of Strategic
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