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Fast fashion strategy 8 c Global distribution strategy 9 3.3.2 Strategy analysis 9 a Strategic Advantages 9 b Strategic Drawbacks 10 4.0 Recommendation 10 5.0 Conclusion 12 6.0 Reference 13 1.0 Introduction This report is about ZARA which is a global brand of clothing owned by the Inditex Group. It is the world’s third-clothing retailer‚ one of the world’s four major fashion chain (the other three are the United States of casual fashion giant GAP‚ the Swedish fashion giant H &
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6.0 STRATEGIC ANALYSIS & RECOMMENDATION FOR ZARA 6.1 PORTER 5 FORCES ANALYSIS 1. Barriers to entry: HIGH a. High fixed cost business requires economics of scale for sustained profitability b. High Selling & Administration Expenses which includes advertising‚ in-store promotions‚ etc.; up to 3.5% of its revenue‚ even though for Zara‚ the company is famous for spending minimum level of advertisements and commercials. However‚ recently the company announced that it invested €450 million in
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ZARA: Fast Fashion The Spanish retail chain Zara has unique supply chain management practices that enable it to gain a competitive advantage over other fashion retailers in the industry. Zara’s rapid response time enables the firm to quickly respond to changing fashions while deliberately under producing products. This strategy‚ which is supported by competencies in logistic management‚ design and information systems‚ allows the company to maintain less inventory and higher profit margins and is
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Perey‚ Lauren Alexis G. Pili‚ Alessandra Emile F. 3TE-4 OR CASE STUDY Zara Uses Operations Research to Reengineer Its Global Distribution Process 1. OR Approach A. Problem Analysis: “Fast fashion” is a term often associated with this Spanish clothing manufacturer and retailer‚ which has rapidly sped up the process of designing and delivering fashionable clothes throughout the world. Zara’s supply chain includes two primary warehouses located in Spain that periodically receive shipments
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Zara : IT for Fast Fashion Zara is a leading brand in the fashion retail industry. It is a vertically integrated retailer‚ a pioneer of the Just-In-Time Inventory system. It becomes important to define the critical success factors for this industry in the analysis presented through the following three questions: 1. How can you differentiate Zara’s use of IT? Technology investment should be targeted at the points in the value chain where the impact is most significant. If we look at the value
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Background Zara Zara is a chain of stores Belonging to the Spanish fashion group INDITEX founded by Amancio Ortega Gaona. It is the company ’s flagship chain and is represented in Europe‚ America‚ Africa and Asia with 1412 stores in 69 countries‚ 500 of them in Spain. During 2007 it opened 560 stores across the group. . It has three logistics centers‚ located in the main Arteixo‚ province of La Coruna (Spain)‚ where he opened the first store in 1975 and two in Zaragoza and Madrid. In 1975 he
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Corporate Strategy – Zara The core concept of Zara ’s business model is they sell "medium quality fashion clothing at affordable prices"‚ and vertical integration and quick-response is key to Zara ’s business model. Through the entire process of Zara ’s business system: designing‚ sourcing and manufacturing‚ distribution and retailing‚ they presented four fundamental success factors: short cycle time‚ small batches per product‚ extensive variety of product every season and heavy investment in
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recommendations for Zara 11-13 Bibliography 14 Appendix 15-29 Introduction It can be found that the fashion retail of Zara is the flagship brand
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Unternehmensführung Term – Paper „Zara - Case Study“ WS 2012 Seminararbeitgruppe: Severin Springer Hans Kahofer Raphael M`Barek Antoine Eber Table of content 1. Case Introduction.........................................................................................................................1 1.1 Mission‚ Vision and Values...............................
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