“ZARA: FAST FASHION” Case Study Questions October 1‚ 2013 LAB 4. Which of the five generic competitive strategies does Zara most closely follow? Provide support for your opinion. 5. How does Zara create competitive advantage? 6. Why might Zara “fail”? How sustainable is its competitive advantage relative to other apparel retailers? 7. What strategic recommendations would you make for Zara to Inditex CEO Jose Maria Castellano?
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analysis is useful to both Inditex executives and Zara store manages as they have to set their own objectives and make decision respectively. In the case study‚ Zara has only hold a small portion of market share in USA garment industry with only 50 branches. Before fully development in USA market‚ SWOT analysis enables Inditex executives to understand their Strengths‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities‚ and Threats of Inditex. For example‚ the strength of Zara is “fast-fashion”‚ with fast design and manufacturing
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Production Enterprises Customers Suppliers Production Enterprises ZARA is the flagship brand under the Indetex Group‚ which is known worldwide by its fast fashion products. Their core competitive strategy is developing the new product and getting it to stores within 15 days. The uniqueprocessing model ensures ZARA occupied the market advantage among the fashion industry. Subcontractors Although ZARA manufacture approximately half of its products in their own factories‚ they use
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which plays homage to customer values. This paper also analyzes methods used by fast fashion leader‚ the Spanish‚ Inditex owned Zara. A closer look at Zara’s supply chain‚ market responsiveness‚ flexibility‚ technology‚ pricing and costs strategies and methods are examined and compared to other fast fashion retailers that can appropriately be deemed as competition for Zara. Also‚ globalization and other operational strategies are discussed that all come together to show the remarkable success of the
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Marketing Strategy of Zara The purpose of this paper is to analyse the existing marketing strategy of the one of the biggest‚ worldwide clothes company-Zara. In our research we have chosen this company because it is a well-known brand that is popular amongst young consumers. The company has performed very well with its marketing strategy in the past few years and it is still the top company on the market. The marketing strategy of Zara consists of high turnover in which the company usually
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following questions: a) Write a brief summary of the organization´s operations (industry‚ products‚ country‚ etc) Inditex is one of the world’s largest fashion retailers‚ welcoming shoppers at its eight store formats -Zara‚ Pull & Bear‚ Massimo Dutti‚ Bershka‚ Stradivarius‚ Oysho‚ Zara Home and Uterqüe - boasting 4.780 stores in 77 countries. http://www.inditex.es/es The Inditex Group is made up of more than 100 companies operating in textile design‚ manufacturing and distribution. The group’s success
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objective for Zara is to continue their expansion in countries like Switzerland‚ Italy‚ and Czech Republic and also on other continents: Latin America and Asia. A second objective is to continue their stores’ growth in the countries where already exists in order to consolidate its position and increase its market share. By the accomplishment of the two objectives Zara is looking to create enduring profitable growth. 2.2 Strategies I will start with the product market penetration used by Zara and more
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Description The Textile Empire: Inditex‚ Zara Inditex‚ the parent company which owns Zara‚ one of the best known fashion brands in the world‚ is an apparel conglomerate‚ with 9 brands under its umbrella. Inditex made €1.932 billion profit with a revenue of €13.79 billion worldwide in 2011. As of 2012‚ there are 100‚140 people working for Inditex Group across their headquarters and 6‚009 stores around the world. [1][2] Among those major 9 brands of Inditex‚ Zara‚ one of their oldest brands which was
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