Posts Tagged ‘ Inditex ’

西班牙首富ZARA创始人宣布退休

Ortega 白手起家,35年后在2010年的福布斯富人排行榜上名列第9位,现年已75岁高龄的他,身体状况依然良好。巴塞罗那纳维拉大学的营销学教授Jose Luis Nueno 认为这是Ortega辞职的最理想时期:“谁都不会希望职位更替是由于管理者突然遭遇疾病或是公司经营不善而不得不采取的措施和决定。”
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Handing over the reins of a €9bn fashion empire

  Amancio Ortega, the wealthiest man in Spain and perhaps one of the world’s most reclusive moguls, has tiptoed into the spotlight this week by announcing his imminent retirement from the fast-fashion giant Inditex, parent company of the Zara chain, which he founded with a single store 35 years ago. There were no photo...
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Założyciel Zary odchodzi na emeryturę

Jose Luisa Nueno, profesora marketingu na IESE Business School w Barcelonie, Ortega wybrał dobry moment. Ostatnie lata pokazały, że Inditex dobrze radzi sobie nawet w kryzysie. Sprzedaż w pierwszych trzech kwartałach ubiegłego roku wzrosła o 14 proc., do 8,9 mld euro. Rezygnacja ze stanowiska w przypadku złego stanu zdrowia albo kiepskiej sytuacji firmy byłaby...
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Fast Fashion

Zara, Professor Nueno points out, has a big offer in basic goods. These are low price products such as T-shirts and are positioned in the centre of the store. Crucially, although prices are low,margins for these products are high.
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Why talk about logistics?

It’s not the first thing you would expect a speaker to say at a logistics conference: “Why talk about logistics – logistics is the least important part”. However, when the speaker is Professor Jose Luis Nueno and he is quoting the owners of retail chain Zara, then it has to be worth listening. The event was...
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Zara ou le succès de la mode à la demande

Nombreux sont les détaillants américains de prêt-à-porter qui étouffent sous le poids de stocks d'invendus, les clients étant stoppés dans leur élan de consommation. Ce n'est pas le cas du groupe espagnol Inditex, qui est en pleine forme, et dont la marque phare, Zara, a lancé la mode chic à petits prix. Représentant 13,8...
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Zara Thrives by Breaking All the Rules

A Zara store in Manhattan: Controlling the supply chain is key

Many U.S. apparel retailers are choking on slow-moving inventories as consumers hold back on spending. But Spain's Inditex, whose Zara chain pioneered cheap chic, is zipping ahead. The $13.8 billion company, which is closing in on Gap for the title of world's biggest clothing retailer, has nearly quadrupled sales, profits, and locations since 2000....
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Zara, l’entreprenant ambassadeur de l’Espagne

« Au moment d''affronter le marché global et l''ouverture notamment de la Chine, Inditex a fait le choix de maintenir son système d''intégration verticale maximale, alors que tous les concur­rents misent sur la délocalisation » , souligne José Luis Nueno, professeur de marketing à l''IESE, co-auteur de Zara : Fast Fashion.
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Spanish fashion fleet hitting rough seas

"The Spanish retailing giant and the exclusive design house do share a mission: They are striving to make Spanish labels a formidable force in the fashion industry, even as better-known companies like Benetton of Italy, the Belgium-based C&A or Marks & Spencer of Britain regroup, retrench and struggle to bolster their brands. Inditex, owner...
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ZARA: Fast Fashion (Paper or multimedia Case)

Focuses on Inditex, an apparel retailer from Spain, which has set up an extremely quick response system for its ZARA chain. Instead of predicting months before a season starts what women will want to wear, ZARA observes what’s selling and what’s not and continuously adjusts what it produces and merchandises on that basis. Powered...
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