1: Executive Summary This case focuses on the Spanish retail giant, Inditex and how its largest retail chain Zara has been so successful through its simple business model of speed, flexibility, and high fashion. As of 2002, Inditex had six separate chains: Zara, Massimo Dutti, Pull & Bear, Bershka, Stradivarius, and Oysho. Each chain operates independently and is responsible for its own strategy, product design, sourcing and manufacturing, distribution, retail. Zara is by far the largest, most
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Zara – Fast Fashion Please assume you are a competent consultant of a very famous consulting company, such as Boston Consulting Company (BCG), McKenzie, or Monitor. And you are assigned to diagnose/evaluate the current strategy and to give recommendation(s) for the future growth of ZARA (or Inditex). You should submit your report to your boss on the day of the discussion. 1. Describe the characteristics of the industry in which ZARA compete. 2. What are the value(s) that ZARA?
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changes in the fast fashion model. Moreover, it will be investigated whether these may allude to a possible convergence to the newly emerged slow fashion model which is currently trying to penetrate the fashion market. The international retailer Zara has served as fast fashion representative for this analysis and has been examined for business model adjustments, which might have been triggered by macroenvironmental factors. It was found that especially social, environmental and technological factors
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Product……………………………………………………………………..…………………………13 Swot Analysis…………………………………………………………………………………………………….14 Appendices……………………………………………………………………………………………………….17 References………………………………………………………………………………………………………..18 REASON FOR SELECTION Zara is the subsidiary of Spanish retailer Inditex. The reason for selecting Zara is that it is one of the world's largest fashion retailers and is one of the fastest growing companies in the fashion industry. It has an innovative resolution to both style and marketing problem. The reason for
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This paper proposes to use Zara as a case study to analyze the internationalization process and its impact on the international context. Through the analysis, it seeks to gain some insights from this Spanish fashion retailer’s internationalization strategies that we could learn and apply in international business today. Zara started as a clothing retailer in Spain in 1975 and became incorporated within Inditex in 1985 (Keeley and Clark 2008). From its first inception, Zara focused its growth in the
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ZARA: IT for Fast Fashion Name: Institution: ZARA: IT for Fast Fashion Background of the Case Situation Zara is among the top international fashion brands under Inditex. Amancio Ortega founded the company in 1975 with its first store in La Coruna. Ortega had a primary goal of linking customer demand to manufacturing, and at the same time linking manufacturing to distribution. Inditex was created in 1985 as a parent company for Zara. In the same year, Jose Castellano joined Zara
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discuss the ZARA case. My reasons are as followed. To begin with, ZARA has become a most popular fashion collection retailer in Taiwan, so it is interesting and instructive to understand how it can attain such success. Moreover, since I am an “IT” person, I would also like to figure out whether the information system plays an important role in ZARA’s supply chain. To start with my paper, I will first introduce some properties or concepts that had been discussed in class and were pertinent to ZARA.
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Zara Case Study Analysis Executive Summary This report provides and analysis and evaluation of the current IT operations of Zara, a segment of Inditex, and concludes with a decision whether to upgrade to a more modern operating system or not. When analyzing the company, many problems arose that centered on the company using an obsolete DOS operating system. Key problems found were that managers are spending too much time on ordering information. POS systems are not linked and therefor information
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89 Global Marketing Management 0372 Zara: Fast Fashion Case Analysis GMM Group F: Alexandra Botescu, Ana Sabau, Felicia Postica, Mila Kostadinova, Georgi Krastev, Raisa Nazarova 08-Nov-11 Zara: Fast Fashion Table of Contents Introduction............................................................................................................................................. 1 1. 2. Problem statement................................................................................
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ZARA, IT for Fast Fashion Module 1 A Case Study Prepared by Ritwick Banerjee Date of Submission: 29th September, 2010 Executive Summary My decision is to introduce a new operating system (OS) in segments. The plan identifies a number of non critical stores as pilot case. It introduces the new OS and links the Point of Sales (POS) terminals using internet to the information system at La Coruna. The necessary interface applications get written and tested by the applications
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