THE CASE OF ZARA: PLANNING AND STRATEGIC CONTROL Alexandra Iacob University of Huelva HUELVA, SPAIN 2015 Abstract Zara is a retail company belonging to the Spanish company Inditex Group. Currently, Zara has 1,808 stores in 86 countries. This paper will analyse Zara’s business model, based on innovation and flexibility, as well as logistics chain and the various tools used to recognize the continuous changes in fashion trends and turn them into a product marketable within a few weeks. Compared with
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demands. Zara is the flagship chain store of Inditex Group owned by Spanish company tycoon Amancio Ortega, who also owns brands such as Massimo Dutti, Pull and Bear, Oysho, Uterqüe, Stradivarius and Bershka. The group is headquartered in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, where the first Zara store opened in 1975. It is claimed that Zara needs just two weeks to develop a new product and get it to stores, compared with a six-month industry average, and launches around 10,000 new designs each year (ZARA, Business
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INTRODUCTION Zara is one of the world’s most successful fashion retailers operating in 59 countries. However, there is little research about the firm in English as the majority of publications have been written in Spanish. This paper seeks to address this gap in the literature by examining the internationalisation process of Zara. This study adopts an in-depth case approach based on extensive secondary research. Literature published in both English and Spanish has been reviewed, including
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MIS Chapter 3 ZARA: Fast Fashion from a savvy system 3.1 Introduction: -Zara is the largest pure play fashion retailer -does not believe in advertising -keep huge swaths production in house -went from 2.43b in 2002 to 20 billion in 2012 -fastest global expansion, the fashion industry has ever seen. Opening 1 store a day and now in 88+ countries -high quality but inexpensive. Gaps downfall -chose wrong styles colors - took 3 CEOS to straighten out Contract Manufacturing: a Lower
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ZARA Case Study By Chander Shekhar Sibal (WMP 6015) A Case Study submitted in fulfillment of the assignments for MIS WMP 2013 [pic] Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow Noida Campus 2011 Zara Case Study Q. 1. Zara is successful in managing IT. Using your learning’s from the case, explain how Zara is able to get productivity benefits from IT The firm tripled in size between 1996 and 2000, then skyrocketed from $2.43 billion in 2001 to $13.6 billion in
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Marketing Issues Sunday, December 28, 2008 Zara operation management, A business case! 1- Executive Summary Operations management is in regard to all operations within the organization related activities including managing purchases, inventory control, quality control, storage and logistics. A great deal of focus is on efficiency and effectiveness of such processes. An example of successful operations management in retail sector is obvious in Zara business model which is elaborated and discussed
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Running Head: Zara Case Study Zara – IT for Fast Fashion MGN 562 Team: The Change Agents Drejer Simon ID 315273004 Sharnjeet Kaur ID 315271003 Bilal Khalid ID 315276006 JR Rattaporn Srinok ID 315373001 Zertab Quaderi ID 315276001 Stamford International University, Bangkok February 2016 Table of Contents Abstract 3 Company Overview 4 Current Situation 5 Process Performance Analysis 5 Capacity 7 Efficiency 8 Flexibility 11 Quality 11 Operations Strategy Analysis 15
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| 2. | Case Summary : ZARA The technology Giant of the Fashion World | 7 | 3. | Discussion: Question 1Question 2Question 3Question 4Question 5Question 6 | 899101010 | 4. | Conclusion | 11 | 5. | Reference list | 11 | History and Background of Zara Marked as the first prestigious venture of the Inditex group the first store of Zara, the chain of Spanish fashion stores came into reality on central A Coruña Street in 1975. In 1985, Amancio Ortega integrated Zara in a new holding company
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Zara as being one of the major international clothing retailers stands out with its business and marketing model. Zara is also often one step ahead of the high-fashion ready-to-wear brands by providing similar garments made with less expensive fabric so prices much lower. Zara’s business model is characterized by flexibility, which is a production method that fulfils demand in order to manage quick turn-around, limited season stock and at a low price. The secret to Zara’s success is that, although
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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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