I. Background
Zara is a famous Spanish apparel retailer based in Arteixo Galicia that provides product lines for women, men, and children. They are a high fashion retail that has a fast changing product lines. Zara is now represented in over 30 markets worldwide and operates over 500 stores. Zara has been operating under Inditex that was founded by Amancio Ortega in 1975. Inditex has been a global specialty retailer and has six apparel retailing chains including Zara. The six different chains include Zara, Massimo, Dutti, Pull & Bear, Bershka, Stradivarius, and Oysho. In 2001, Inditex has generated a net income of 340 million Euros. Currently, Zara is the largest and most international retailer in Inditex’s chains. Zara mission was to always to provide fast and affordable fashion apparel for customers. Since the fashion industry is rapidly changing over the seasons, Zara wanted to provide customers with attracting design.
Since Zara starting out in the Spanish market, they have been moving overseas to different countries in Europe. One of Inditex’s goals is to have international expansion and be the majority shareholder. Despite the difficultly of entering to different markets, Inditex created joint ventures and franchises. Inditex intended to use franchises for small, risky markets that have cultural differences. On the other hand, the join venture was mainly used for getting a prime retail space in the city where the shopping centers. Currently, one-third of the stores are franchised.
The three leading competitors in the industry are The Gap, Hennes & Mauritz, and Benetton. All three competitors have a vertical scope compare to Zara. Most of
Zara target demographics include men and women from infant to the age of 45. Howev...
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...ansfer the risk of failing to franchisees. Also, the storeowner will have a better understanding of the market than anyone else. This approach will allow Zara to grow rapidly at a faster pace. On the downside, if franchisees started closing down store around the world then this can cause Zara to have a negative image.
IV. Recommendation
Overall, Zara should start investment their capital in information technology now. The technology team will able to build website for Zara and provide technical support for customers. Also, Zara should create pages on social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter. In the meantime, Zara should partner will either one of the well-known retailer so Zara can start promoting their product lines in the US. Lastly, Zara should promote in Asia and Europe to interested franchisees about the possible opportunities to open up a Zara store.
As business grew, so did competition. Charlotte’s biggest competitors are Wet Seal Inc, and Forever 21. Charlotte Russe, however performed better than its competition due to its marketing philosophy, following the customers wants rather than decreeing trends.
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Due to the good establishment of the business, it has huge market national. The company has therefore opened many retail shops and stores all over the country to ensure that their products are accessible to the customers. The entity provides a favorable environment, and many clients view the place as a fun shopping place to be. The retailer has targeted a big pool of customer because of the variety of products it sells. The stores products vary from kitchen goods, jewelry, and electronics clothes to hardware
First of all, franchising allows the company to achieve success in Turkey with minimal economic and political risks. Since opening of own outlet in Turkey requires an agreement with the government and careful research on local market conditions, it is to the advantage of M&S to have a local partner working under company’s brand name. And about 700 outlets in 34 countries is the best show of efficiency of franchising.
Warby Parker has huge and potential competitors online as well offline. For an example, Doctors Valu Visual and Wal-Mart Vision Center, Zenni Optical and Coastal Contacts. Luxottica is a monopoly eyewear firm in US. Their gross profit is $6 billion selling 75 million pairs of glasses through at its retail stores and as a wholesale channel. They can offer:
These companies are direct competitors of Macy 's and sell similar items as Macy 's. There are many indirect competitors of Macy 's. The company faces fierce competition from emerging apparel companies such as Forever 21, H&M, Zara. The company also faces major competition worries from Amazon.com and other online retailers which provide convenience to customers and avoid the costs of having a brick and mortar presence (Bailey,
1) With which of the international competitors listed in the case is it most interesting to compare Inditex’s financial results? Why? What do comparisons indicate about Inditex’s relative operating economics? Its relative capital efficiency? Note that while the electronic version of Exhibit 6 automates some of the comparisons, you will probably want to dig further into them?
The Zara fashion chain, with 546 stores in 30 countries today ?from which 340 are outside Spain- and ?2914,3 millions of total sales in 2002, is undoubtedly the group?s locomotive (Inditex, 2003). In 2002 it represented 33% of the group?s total stores, accounted for 72% of the group?s total sales and contributed to the holding?s total profits for ?540.4 millions (Inditex FY2002 Results Presentation, 2003). Moreover, Zara with 75-90 new stores within 2003 takes the lion?s share in group?s current year store openings (total openings for 2003: 260-315). The purpose of the Porter analysis is to analyse the competitiveness of the market.
Decision making at Zara is very much disintegrated. Operations like ordering, fulfillment and design and manufacturing at Zara are based on important decisions made at a lower level by customer facing employees. These decisions sometimes do not even need the reviews of the higher management. A group of commercials decided what existing and new garments to place an order for depending on the sales of a particular store. Another group of commercials determined future production for a SKU (stock-keeping-unit) depending on the balance of the demand of garments in the stores and supply of finished clothes coming from factories into the DC. Prediction of the changing tastes of the young, fashion conscious city dwellers was done by a group of commercials. These decisions helped in creating variety in the designs of new stock. These decisions also helped Zara introduce new design collections all throughout the year depending on the current customer demand.
The first ZARA store opened in Spain in 1975 and it is now the highest profile chain store of its parent group Inditex with over 1000 stored worldwide. Zara unlike H&M have adopted a more vertically integrated business model. 60% of their goods are manufactured in spain whilst only 24% are manufactured in low cost regions like africa and
The fundamental business strategy of Zara is very simple which is linking customer demand to manufacturing, and liking manufacturing to distribution. Zara has been running their business in fashion industry which is susceptible to seasons and quick changing customer tastes. Zara has been approached to and considered their business as a perishable commodity business just like a fresh baked cake or bread to be consumed quickly.
H&M is the world’s second largest retailer, only behind its main rival Zara of Inditex (Petro, 2012). The company currently has 3006 stores in 53 countries. The company does not own any factories. H&M outsources production to network of 800 independent suppliers; 75% in Asia and 25% in Europe. In order to increase the efficiency and productivity of its supply chain, the company strategically locates its network of 20 to 30 production offices close to its suppliers. According to Stockholm Newsroom, the pretax profit of the company for the month of June to August of 2013 is $907 million, which indicates an 11 rise in turnover (Pollard, 2013). The company continuous development plan facilitates its goal for both brick and mortar, and online stores expansion worldwide. The target segments for H&M, a category specialist store, are trendsetters and fashion/money conscious males and females ranging from 16 to 40 years old with income ranging $15,000 to $60,000 annually.
Zara, a clothing and accessory brand first established in Arteixo, Spain in 1975 by Amancio Ortega and Rosalina Mera. Ortega and Mera originally named the company Zorba, inspired by the movie called “Zorba the Greek”, but later they found out that there was a bar two blocks away called Zorba too, so they rearranged the letter and came up with a new name called Zara. The first store was opened in downtown Galicia, Spain and had the trendiest items with low priced. Ortega’s idea of developing a fast turnaround fashion market led to the success of Zara today. By 2015, Zara has more than 2,100 stores worldwide and also known for its ability to produce the most up-to-date fashion pieces and distribute to each store within two weeks. Globalization
This paper describes the various aspects of the Zappos case. The objective is to evaluate the depth analysis of the Zappos strategy. It enables to determine the Zappos strategy, business model & marketing strategy, and smartness of the Zappos acquisition.
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