1. Zara was developed with the initial goal to link customer demand to manufacturing‚ and link manufacturing to distribution. Goals such as short production times‚ decreased inventory risk‚ and great choice of clothes have helped formulate a unique value and shape Zara’s current business model. Zara’s business model is based on three aspects: Zara’s fundamental concept is to maintain design‚ production‚ and distribution processes that will enable Zara to respond quickly to shifts in the consumer
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Zara Case Management 454 3/20/14 Founded in 1975 by Armancio Ortega‚ Zara is a very successful Spanish clothing and accessory realtor and the first business to start the Inditex Group empire. Starting in a small Galician city known as La Coruna in Spain‚ Zara has grown to be a retailer powerhouse with over 6‚000 stores in 85 different countries. Although the number of stores and locations is constantly changing as Zara is known to open more than a store a day in past
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What is the conventional wisdom of the fashion industry with respect to design‚ manufacturing and advertising? Answer: Conventional wisdom of fashion industry "SUGGESTS LEVERAGING CHEAP CONTRACT MANUFACTURING IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES TO KEEP THE COST OF GOODS LOW WHILE THE COMPANY FOCUSES ON DESIGN AND ADVERTISING." Firms can lower prices and sell more product or maintain higher profit margins-all good for the bottom line. However‚ global competition among contract firms has led to race-to-the-bottom
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speed of fashion By Devangshu Dutta The middle-aged mother buys clothes at the Zara chain because they are cheap‚ while her daughter aged in the mid-20s buys Zara clothing because it is fashionable. Clearly‚ Zara is riding two of the winning retail trends - being in fashion and low prices - and making a very effective combination out of it. Much talked about‚ especially since its parent company’s IPO in 2001‚ often admired‚ sometimes reviled‚ but hardly ever ignored‚ Zara has been
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Zara Case Study Main Problems Zara need to adapt their strategy to ensure future stability in meeting the demands of a larger customer base. The problems that they need to address are as follows; Rapid Organic growth outside of Spain – Zara have shifted focus into expanding overseas‚ specifically the Asia region. According to Exhibit 8‚ 120 new Zara stores were opened outside of Spain in 2010. Despite the current centralized distribution model working well and at below capacity‚ continuous rapid
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MGMT 6620: Operations & SCM HBS Case Study Zara: IT for Fast Fashion 4/9/2013 1. What is the Zara “business model”? What weaknesses‚ if any‚ do you seen in this business model? The value propositions offered by Zara to its main customers who are young‚ fashion conscious city-dwellers is offering new styles within the time-frame of several weeks as well as providing assortment of choices for customers and the uniqueness of clothing styles fitting individual customer needs. To achieve
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Case study I.1 Zara: the Spanish retailer goes to the top of world fashion Zara (www.inditex.com) is a fashion retail chain of Inditex Group owned by the Spanish businessman‚ Amancio Ortega‚ who also owns brands such as Massimo Dutti‚ Pull & Bear‚ Oysho‚ Uterqüe‚ Stradivarius and Bershka. The Inditex group (of which Zara is a part) is headquartered in La Coruña‚ northwest Spain‚ where the first Zara store opened in 1975. It is claimed that Zara needs just two weeks to develop a new product
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[pic] CONTENTS 1. Introduction 3 2. Zara as Company 4-5 3. Zara’s Model of Operation 6 4. Company’s Structure
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clothes at the Zara chain because they are cheap‚ while her daughter aged in the mid-20s buys Zara clothing because it is fashionable. Clearly‚ Zara is riding two of the winning retail trends - being in fashion and low prices - and making a very effective combination out of it. Much talked about‚ especially since its parent company’s IPO in 2001‚ often admired‚ sometimes reviled‚ but hardly ever ignored‚ Zara has been an interesting case study for many other retailers and fashion brands around the
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MGT136- Management Themes and Perspectives Strategy MGT136-1 Provide an analysis of an organisation explaining the relative importance of each of Porter’s Five Forces for the organisation’s strategic position. You should support your arguments with evidence from the company and/or the relevant literature. Zara has been the major pioneer of ‘disposable’ fashion; which makes up over 12% of the UK clothing industry. Zara outperforms its rivals in profitability‚ brand identity‚ and its successful
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