Zara is one of the leading fashion companies in the world according to the fashion magazines in the world. The company has been able to attain its currents heights due to its strategic management that has been because of good leadership at the company. In this research paper, market analysis of the textile and clothing industry will be discussed. In addition, the paper will discuss how the strategies that the company has employed to attain its current success. The objective of the papers or rather study is to highlight on the Zara’s SWOT analysis, and conduct the PESTEL analysis and develop a theory that students can learn from the research that has been conducted in the business discipline after carry out on the porter’s five forces of the textile industry that Zara operates in. This paper will look into details the marketing strategies that Zara Company has employed to navigate in the textile and clothing industry. The paper will look at an overview of the company and some of …show more content…
The papers took a deep insight of the company’s consumer analysis in relation to porter’s five forces of marketing, marketing strategy at Zara and finally the theoretical framework of the business discipline as it is evident in the paper.
Zara Company Overview
In the early 1963, Amancio Ortega founded a small company that manufactured women’s pajamas and other lingering products for the clothing wholesalers and retailers. The company opened its own retail shop that was branded Zara after one of the company customer from German cancelled one of the most magnificent tender that the company had acquired in 1975 (Wararkar et al., 2017). The cancellation that lead to the establishment of the retail shop brought to the company a new business idea that enabled the company to marry manufacturing and retailing in the textile industry despite the fact that the intent of opening the shop was to
CASE STUDY: You are the marketing manager for a chain of home-ware stores in Brisbane called Houzit. The marketing plan for the 15 Houzit stores was developed over 12 months ago and you are actively engaged in implementing the strategies to achieve the marketing objectives. Specifically, you are instigating those marketing activities that meet the marketing objectives of a 12% market share (up from 11%) and an increase in sales by 8.5% over last year’s result. No expansion stores are planned during this phase of consolidation and on average the stores achieved $24,680 per week for the year.
Zara provides fashion apparels for men, women and kids of all ages . Zara 's target business is youthful, cost cognizant, and exceptionally delicate to the most recent design patterns. They section their product offering in such a way that ladies account for 60%, men 's 25% and kids 15% accounts for division . Reason for choosing Zara for analysis in spite of being U.K. based company is that, it operates largely in U.K. Zara 's and its parent organization, Inditex, maybe taken as the course reading for how to do retail store network right . Zara has turned into a most loved of design fans, including industry insiders.
In the assignment, it will discuss the sports brand Nike which specifically focuses in Chinese market. There are three main content areas in this assignment. The first part is a macro environmental analysis; the next part is the target customer profile; the last part is the analysis of marketing strategies. Macro Environmental Analysis: Nike is a very well-known market leader. It is an international brand, their products are selling in the worldwide including China.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Zara can be identified as one of the largest international fast-fashion organizations which is owned by the fashion group Inditex. Their first store was opened in 1975 and from that point of time, they have had an unstoppable growth throughout the years as up to now. After 42 years of operations, today Zara has been able to expand themselves with 2169 stored over 82 countries all over the world. Rather than they were a high fashion brand in the country, Zara has focused themselves as a fast fashion brand where they will change their fashions at a great pace where no one can reach them. Also, the most attractive thing is that all those latest fashion designs are introduced to the public at an affordable price.
This school apply SWOT analysis which is the important factor for making strategy by using 7s model of Mckinsey for internal analysis and using PEST model for external analysis. This strategy suit with stable situation only. Employee within organization have to ready follow strategy which manager thought only because employees do not receive opportunity for making strategy. As a result, employees will resist to organization and if organization need to success in business, it should have only employee who obey to order of organization. This strategy is an environment which is not fit to current situation, so it should apply to study for base of
Zara is vertically integrated and takes care of designing, manufacturing and distributing its products. This gives it an immense hold on the market as most of the operational inefficiencies are eliminated by the company’s on employees who identify with the larger goal and value proposition of the brand (The New York Times, 2012). Zara works along with the consumers to understand them more closely rather than imposing its own predictions on them. Zara creates an environment of artificial scarcity in its stores for every design it manufactures so that consumers get a feel of exclusivity rather than stock pile up (Johnson, 2012). This gives them a sense of pride to buy a limited edition of products which they find at Zara stores only.
In terms of differentiation, ZARA’s “fast fashion” philosophy is unique, which create demands and lead the trend in the garment market. They respond very quickly to the demands of target customers and focus on young fashion. In production, they design quickly, production quickly and update quickly.
One advantage of this globalization is the possibility of creating international fashion chains accompanying consumers wherever they are. Inditex took advantage very well that factor. • MICRO: It is formed by forces close to the company that affect its ability to satisfy customers, the business, consumer markets, marketing channels used, competitors and public. Zara 's main competitors are: Sfera, H & M, GAP, Mango, Pull & Bear and Stradivarius. In the graph we see as Zara drink market both national and European business.
(BARNAT, "Concurrent Control") As fashion trends tend to change every now and then, Zara could use this control to work on latest trends and future trends. This to ensure that employee work activities produce the correct results without any major wastage and unacceptable services. This also allows Zara to be up to date with its fashion knowledge and also sustain its position in the
Introduction Uniqlo is ranked as the 1st apparel brand in Japan (Fast retailing, 2014) and the 5th SPA (Specialty Store Retailer of Private Apparel) in the world (VFPress, 2012). The brand has demonstrated a strong development during the past years with around 818 stores worldwide, estimated at August 2015, (Fast retailing, 2014) and now, they are planning for an expansion to Vietnam market. This report will provide useful information which can be guidelines for Uniqlo’s strategy to enter a new market. The report covers four main parts: PESTLE analysis of Vietnam market; mode of entry suggestion; segments, targets and position process and 7Ps marketing mix. Question 1:
1. In order to understand the success of Inditex’s best brand, Zara one has to understand their strategic choices, and at its core this revolves on having a good understanding of who Zara targets, and what makes this brand attractive. Zara’s most important target market can be understood by the use of demographics, they target young (18-40 year old) women, who are price-conscious with a mid-range income, and very sensitive to fashion trends.
ZARA’s business scope including clothe, accessory, shoes, hat and perfume. Because of their excellent operating capability, they can become successful each and every year. Clothes, food, shelter and travel are the four elements for life. Clothes being priority in order to shows how important it is. China have more than 1.3 billion people nowadays, enormous people formed enormous clothing consumer market.
As a result, the company has suffered for disappointing earnings and sales. One of the reasons is because in the attempt to turn around the company, the raw material and labor cost increased which lead to an increase of 20% per item. As a result, now the company is facing struggles because foreign competitors such as Zara, H&M, Walmart and Target are stealing its customers with cheaper and fresher fashion. Another driving force that affects the fashion industry is the information revolution. The instant availability of information and instantly interaction are the implication that has changed the nature of competition in the fashion industry.
Strategic marketing is a broad and practical subject which included the concept of marketing subjects of previous semesters such as business marketing. The study of this subject has contributed to marketing knowledge in many ways, as well as it has strengthened my skills in application of marketing concepts. My knowledge was increased that I was able to develop a complete strategic marketing plan of not only on the part of marketing analysis or strategy of a product or service, but also the whole corporate plan. My skills and capabilities that were developed and integrated during lectures and tutorials include the analytical skills, coordination skills, presentation skills, organization skills, etc.
Consumer is one who consumes the goods & services product. The aim of marketing is to meet and satisfy the Consumer needs and wants. The modern marketing concept makes customers the centre stage of organisation efforts. The focus, within the marketing concepts is to reach target and largest customer’s sets ball rolling for analysing each of the conditions of the target market1. Consumer behaviour can be defined as “the decision making process and physical activity involved in acquiring, evaluating, using and disposing of goods and services”.