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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BIT HuangFei (Tracy) Zara: a Spanish retailer goes to the top of world fashion Answer1: The international expansion of Zara started with the opening of a store in Portugal in 1988. Through establishment in Portugal Zara acquired international market experience and knowledge and realized that it would have to adjust its business model to suit the new international markets. International sales accounted for 69 percent of its total turnover in 2005‚ with Europe being its largest market by far
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hours. Zara produces up to 11‚000 items per year while its competitors produce only 2‚000 items approximately‚ this ability able Zara to replace undesirable goods with the preferred one in short notice. According to the short product life-cycle strategy‚ Zara create the sense of scarcity‚ which lead to the customer’s awareness about purchasing the goods right away after it is launched. The finding shows that Zara shopper visits the chain 17 times a year compared with 3-4 times a year for Zara competitors
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Describe the organisation’s current risk management policies‚ procedures and processors and comment on the strengths and weaknesses of these arrangements? The strength of these processes and policies is that it very simple‚ to the point and covers itself in most areas. The weaknesses of the policies and process is very brief and doesn’t give any definitions on what the descriptions in the flow chart boxes mean in great detail. It would be therefore a lot of emphasis on the training in order
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value’. Doh‚ J. P. and Guay‚ T. R. (2006). ‘Corporate social responsibility‚ public policy and NGO activism in Europe and the United States: an institutional-stakeholder perspective’ Donaldson‚ L. and Davis‚ J. H. (1991). ‘Stewardship theory or agency theory: CEO governance and shareholder returns’ Donaldson‚ T. and Preston‚ L. (1995). ‘The stakeholder theory of the corporation: concepts‚ evidence‚ and implications’. Academy of Management Review‚ 20‚ 65–91. Dutta‚ P. K.‚ Lach‚ S. and Rustichini‚ A. (1995)
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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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“Please Accept BTS” The following essay focuses on how a new business idea called Behind the Scenes (“BTS”) can be systematically molded in order to minimize acceptance resistance from key stakeholders. The paper is inspired on the reading “Why Consumers Don’t Buy: The Psychology of New Product Adoption” (Courville‚ 2004). BTS consists of an application for smartphones which enables clients watching a film or TV program to identify products placed within the scenes‚ select the product from the
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that Nike have to go beyond their minimal responsibility e.g. improving working conditions - in order to maximize their shareholders’ wealth? 2. Stakeholder Theory: Stakeholder theory requires that the corporation recognizes and respect the vital interests’ of each of its surrounding stakeholders. This results in corporations proposing stakeholders’ rights and assigning related duties to recognize and respect these rights. NIKE CASE: Nike failed in recognizing and respecting the rights of employees
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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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between Motorola and Ericsson on the implementation of Corporate Ethics and the transformation within the corporations following the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002‚ looking at various ethic theories‚ such as stockholder theory‚ stakeholder theory‚ and legitimacy theory. Since the Sarbanes-Oxley Act‚ which was enacted in response to the Enron and WorldCom collapses and designed to restore confidence and maintain integrity in businesses. Companies are to disclose if they have a code
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