1. What does it take to succeed in the global apparel industry? Is that different from what it takes a regional player to succeed? 2. What elements of Zara’s value chain help/hurt its ability to grow? Do you think Zara should grow 3. How would you advise Salgado to proceed on the issue of upgrading Zara’s POS systems? Intro - Inditex (Industria de Diseño Textil) of Spain‚ the owner of Zara and five other apparel retailing chains * Global Apparel Chain - Characterized as a prototypical
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H&M is one of the largest suppliers of fashion clothes on the Danish market‚ along with Bestseller and IC Company. The Danish fashion market is a Monopolistic Competition market‚ and according to the theory‚ there is free entry barriers (new firms are free to set up a new business‚ if they wanted to). This is not the case in real life though‚ since the initial capital can be an issue for some people‚ the manager simply doesn’t have enough money to set up their company‚ which can be a barrier. H&M
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Human Resources The Human Resource is a strategic partner to H&M’s business. They set standards for recruitment‚ implement training and support the development and growth of their entire organization. The human resource planning‚ the recruitment and the selection is one of the major human resource management responsibility. All to ensure their have the right people with the right skills in the right positions – and at the right time. H&M’s goal is to be a fair partner to their employees and to act
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H&M’s value chain: The value chain‚ made by Michael Porter‚ is really important to see how a company structure is created. The value chain is constituted by two parts: support activities (firm infrastructure‚ human resource management‚ technology development‚ procurement) and primary activities (inbound logistic‚ operations‚ outbound logistic‚ marketing and sales‚ service). (Johnson et al. 2011‚ p.97-99) Support activities: * Firm infrastructure: H&M is present in 44 markets in the
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Case Analysis 1: Zara IT for Fast Fashion 1.) After analyzing the case Zara: IT for Fast Fashion and reviewing the company’s operational strategies‚ we can identify both positive and negative aspects within the organization. Major contributors to the company’s success include: a fined tuned value chain system; lean manufacturing‚ design and distribution; the ability read target markets and predict market trends. Conversely the most significant issues identified in the case include: (1) Poor IT
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Marketing Plan of H&M 12-11-7 下午2:37 Marketing Plan of H&M H & M CLOTHING INDUSTRY H&M or Hennes and Mauritz AB a very popular retail company located in Sweden this company is highly known to provide stylish clothing for men and women including children and teen- agers. Their success brought them to expand at least in 40 countries located all over the world and as of today they have already employed at least 87‚000 employees around the world. All the designs came from various countries
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International Expansion of a Multinational Company ---A Case Study of H&M Authors: Jun Li Maja Frydrychowska Abstract Date: Level: Authors: June 19‚ 2008 Master Thesis in International Business and Entrepreneurship‚ 15 credits Jun Li (1981-11-01)‚ China jli07001@student.mdh.se Maja Frydrychowska (1974-05-29)‚ Poland mfa07001@student.mdh.se Title: The International Expansion of a Multinational Company---A Case Study of H&M Leif Linnskog How did H&M go international and what factors did influence its expansion
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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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H&M Analysis Summary H&M is a Swedish company founded in 1947. It is a family owned company controlled by Stefan Persson and family. H&M act in the fashion industry and are one of the really big global players with 2078 stores in more than 30 countries. In 2009 they launched H&M Home which sells interior textiles through internet. Recently H&M have launched several new store concepts. Other than the H&M stores there are now also Weekday‚ Monki‚ COS and Cheap Monday stores. H&M’s new concept stores
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Zara Fast Fashion Case Study 1- What’s behind Zara success? Zara success comes not only from adapting the latest to the latest trend in fashion through what they sell‚ it’s mostly from how fast they deliver their cutting edge fashion and the most current trend to eagerly awaiting customers ahead of all the competitors through their fast distribution system. Zara can take new fashion concept through design‚ manufacturing and store shelf-placement in as little as 2 weeks whereas competitors take
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