Competition Strategy ZARA-case 1.a: Strengths - Internalized cross-border functions‚ - Affordable prices - Quick response - Strong real estate network - Wider vertical scope than competitors‚ owned much of its production and most of its stores. - Galica’s geographical position from the prespective of transport costs - Originated design and finished goods in stores within four and five weeks in the case of entirely new designs and two weeks for modifications of existing products
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and discussion As complete as possible‚ sketch the supply chain for Zara from raw materials to consumer purchase. Raw material – High tech automated cutting facilities – Small workshops – Ware houses – Stores – customers – Stores – Commercial managers Raw material Zara makes 40 percent of its own fabrics and produces more than half of its own clothes (maximize time efficiency) Cuts fabric in-house As it completes designs‚ Zara cuts fabric in-house. The cutting is done in Zara’s own high-tech
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Turning the Fashion World Upside Down 13 December 2007 Introduction ZARA is the flagship chain store for the Spanish Inditex Group owned by Spanish tycoon Amancio Ortega‚ who also owns brands such as Massimo Dutti‚ Pull and Bear‚ Stradivarius and Bershka. Today‚ Inditex is probably the world ’s fastest growing clothing retailer with over 3‚100 stores around the world in over 70 countries (more than four times the 2000 figure) the Zara format taking around 1‚000 of those stores. In March
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Fashion industry is one of the most powerful‚ yet misunderstood industries in the world. The way we dress is so important to the people that it creates the unstoppable‚ powerful force behind that complex process of design‚ manufacture and distribution. Fashion industry operates on three levels- haute couture‚ ready-to-wear and mass production. The main difference between them is quality of the product and price‚ but the history of the three segments is also different. We can easily say that couture
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Exam Fashion Flow Theories -- The Instrument of Meaning Exemplified as an instrument of meaning‚ the fashion system is a menagerie that takes meaning on an arduous cycle. One that sheds light on how its products are idealized‚ produced‚ adopted‚ and then finally discarded after serving its utilitarian or ideological purpose. Mass communication and other conduits of information dissemination play a role in channeling meaning from its origins to the consumer (McCraken 1986). The fashion system
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ADVANTAGE *IN THE* FAST FASHION Fast fashion is a term used to describe clothing collections which are based on the most recent fashion trends presented at Fashion Week in both the spring and the autumn of every year. These trends are designed and manufactured quickly and cheaply to allow the mainstream consumer to take advantage of current clothing styles at a lower price. This chapter highlights the sources of competitive advantage that may exist inside the field of fast fashion‚ as shown in Figure
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Introduction ZARA is one of the trendy garment retailers as an important brand in portfolio of Inditex. With development of technology and extension of market‚ ZARA has expanded to over 1‚500 stores in 44 countries‚ since founded at a Spanish town called La Coruña in 1975. In internationalization process‚ Zara employed various retailer formats‚ especially online shops‚ to complement weakness in traditional in-store purchase. Moreover‚ current development status of e-tailling is attractive for Zara to entry
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INTERNATIONALISATION OF SPANISH FASHION BRAND ZARA Carmen Lopez Ying Fan Brunel Business School Brunel University Uxbridge UB8 3PH England +44-1895-267239 Key Words Internationalisation‚ fashion retailing‚ market entry‚ branding‚ international marketing‚ Zara 1 INTERNATIONALISATION OF SPANISH FASHION BRAND ZARA ABSTRACT Purpose Research on the internationalisation of retailing has been mainly focused on market entry issues. This paper attempts to examine the internationalisation process
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Brief Summary of Zara 2 How would you advise Salgado to proceed on the issue of upgrading Zara’s POS systems? 3 - Should the company upgrade the POS terminals to modern operating system? 3 - Should the company build in-store networks? 4 - Should the company give employees the ability to look up inventory balances for items in their own stores? 4 - Should the company give employees the ability to look up inventory balances for items in their other stores? 4 What is the Zara “business model”
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* 1. Chapter 8 STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT © 2003 Pearson Education Canada Inc. 8.1 * 2. LEARNING OBJECTIVES You should be able to: Explain the importance of strategic management Describe the steps in the strategic management process Explain SWOT analysis Differentiate corporate-‚ business-‚ and functional-level strategies 8.2 * 3. LEARNING OBJECTIVES (continued) You should be able to (continued): Explain what competitive advantage is and why it’s important to organizations Describe the five competitive
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