Zara is the flagship company of Inditex‚ an international clothing retailer. Zara began its business as a small retail store in Spain founded by Amancio Ortega Gaona in 1975. In the following decades Zara has grown to nearly 450 store location in 29 countries by the year 2000. Zara consistently accounts for more than 80% of Inditex’s net sales as indicated by Figure 1; linking the success of Inditex to the success of the strategies of Zara. Figure 1 Inditex Net Sales by Concept The success
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upscale locations in the cities like Europe‚ United States‚ Middle East‚ and Asia. Zara has its system of 1603 stores in 78 countries. Its stores are located at high-ended places in the world’s major capitals‚ which target at upper-middle level people (INDITEX‚ n.d.). We have discovered a few factors in the macro-environment which we believe they will affect Zara’s profitability in the next three to five years. These factors are: 1. Economic factors 2. Environmental factors 3. Social factors‚
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ESPRIT A Global Player in Lifestyle America‚ 1968. Susie and Doug Tompkins are travelling through California in a station wagon filled with homemade clothes. Theirs is an unconventional method of selling - from the back seat of a vehicle - but even their very first customers are delighted‚ and one of the world’s most successful young fashion brands is born: Esprit. Worldwide success As the Esprit headquarters developed in Europe (Düsseldorf) and Asia (Hong Kong) in the 70s‚ the founder
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for the organization. SWOT 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”‚
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at affordable prices by following the most up-to-date fashion trends and identifying consumers’ demand‚ and quickly getting the latest designs into stores. BACKGROUND About ZARA Zara is a flagship brand of the Spanish retail group‚ Inditex group. Inditex is the world’s largest fashion group‚ which owns other fashion brands such as Pull & Bear‚ Massimo Dutti‚ Bershka‚ Stradivarius‚ Oysho‚ Zara Home‚ Lefties and Uterqüe. It was founded in 1975 by Amancio Ortega‚ when he decided to expand his
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1. How would you describe Zara’s financial performance? Since only Inditex historical financials are shown in the case‚ we took the financials of Inditex to describe Zara’s financial performance. It is reasonable to take Inditex financial data because Zara made up 76% of Inditex’s sales in 2001. Zara (Inditex) Financial Performance in 1996-2001 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 Liquidity Ratio (current ratio) 0.81 1.00 0.88 0.87 0.90 1.02 Leverage Ratio (debt/ equity) 1.98 1.84 1
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competition in the dust in terms of sales and profits‚ not to mention speed of inventory management and turnover. Wal-Mart‚ you might think? No! Tesco‚ possibly? No! The company is Zara‚ the flagship specialty chain of Spain based clothing conglomerate‚ Inditex. Forget football stars‚ the Costa del Sol and Real Madrid‚ they are nothing compared with Zara as Spain’s most successful international export. And it has other retailers reeling as Zara’s low-cost‚ fast fashion takes global markets by storm. This
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Management Information Systems (Oct 18‚2014) Case 1: Zara‚ Netflix and Amazon Business Systems by Efstratiou Kostandinos 1. ZARA a. General. Zara is one of the greatest global fashion companies belonging to the Spanish retail group‚ Inditex SA. Its founder Amancio Ortega Gaona opened its first store in A Coruña (Spain) in 1975. During the 1980s Ortega started changing the design and distribution process to react to new trends quicker. In 1988 the company started its international expansion
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Abstract Zara has been operating in Europe since the year 1975. This paper includes a study of the strengths and weaknesses of Zara Company supply chain management system. It divides the supply chain process into three distinct phases. It shows how the company has managed to embrace technology to deliver its products to customers in real time. The paper also contains a comparison between Zara and its main global competitor in the market. The paper concludes by outlining some of the challenges the
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Zara is considered as one of the greatest global fashion companies. This belongs to the Inditex as one of the greatest groups of distribution in world. Its specific model of thebusiness is consumer –based and comprises the distribution‚ manufacture and selling of the products with the help of extensive system of group owned retailers. It has been examined that designers of Zara are continuously tracking the preferences of customer and placing the orders with the external and internal suppliers. The
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