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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Sewing up the Competition - Innovation in the Textile and Clothing Industry Manufacturing doesn’t get much older than the textile and clothing industry. Since the earliest days when we lived in caves there’s been a steady demand for something to wrap around us to keep warm and to protect the more sensitive bits of our anatomy from the worst of the elements. What began with animal hides and furs gradually moved into a more sophisticated activity with fabrics woven from flax or wool – and with
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In fact‚ this statement of Gandhiji has the essence of national integration in India. India is a vast country with a numerous differences in food‚ clothing‚ languages‚ communities‚ religions etc. Besides‚ India has seen the mixture of various races‚ cultures‚ traditions etc. Through all these diversities and differences there runs the invisible link of common culture‚ common civility and common heritage. National integration means a feeling of oneness among the entire Indians. We must think
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ZARA: IT for Fast Fashion Önder BARLAS Executive MBA Student Boğaziçi University‚ Istanbul Abstract: In 2003 Zara faced a problem whether to upgrade the operating system they used for their point-of-sale (POS) to a new Windows based one‚ or to continue using the stable and old one. This report aims to analyze the problem by conducting a SWOT analysis and offering a solution path best suited on Zara’s strategic position in the clothing industry. 1. Brief Information about Inditex and Zara Inditex
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Five major types of economic integration • Free Trade Area (FTA) Encourages trade among its members by eliminating trade barriers (tariffs‚ quota‚ and other nontariff barriers) among them. Each member is free to establish its own policies against nonmembers‚ Griffin and Pustay (2005:278). Ball and McCulloch (2008:120) outline The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) as examples of FTA’s. • Customs union
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Services’ promotion guideline is open‚ transparent‚ fair‚ consistent‚ and non discriminatory process which involves the participation of relevant personnel and authority GUIDELINES 1. Promotion of employee can be done vertically and laterally. Vertical promotion is applied when the employee change from his/her previous rank or position to a higher rank/position. Lateral Promotion is applied when there is no change in rank/position but only in the job description whether in the same of other
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Vietnam. It is a community which is found in one of the most dynamic regions in the world and is made up of more than 600 million people. Over the past ten decades‚ ASEAN’s share of world GDP and world trade has sharply increased. Its regional integration agenda was meaningfully deepened in the year 2003 when its members adopted the ambitious goal of forming an ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2015. The event indicates how rapidly approaching the association is into a new milestone. During their
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3. ECCO has a fully integrated vertical value chain. What are the pros and cons of this strategy? What economic and strategic factors should be analyzed to answer this question? Unlike many other shoe companies‚ ECCO had a vertical value chain‚ in that they controlled the product from the cow hide to the completed shoe. As noted in the text‚ ECCO would buy raw materials for use in their various tanneries and production sites. As the one of the world’s five top producers‚ ECCO also sold leather
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1 Faith Integration A main reason for the existence of the Christian college or university is to provide an educational environment that includes both academic subject matter and Christian knowledge. At Azusa Pacific University‚ the school emphasizes their motto “God First” in and out of the classroom. According to APU’s Mission Statement‚ APU is a “Christian community of disciples and scholars who seek to advance the work of God in the world through academic excellence in liberal arts and professional
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political perceptions of how the society should There are four different theories that helps us understand political culture and they are Louis Hartz book The Founding of New Societies‚ Seymour Martin Lipset’s Continental Divide‚ John Porter’s‚ the Vertical Mosaic‚ and Harold Adams Innis sub-discipline called the staples approach. Louis Hartz’s theory helps us understand political culture by arguing that the new
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