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Zara SA
Type Sociedad Anónima
Industry Retail
Founded 1975; 44 years ago (as Zorba) Spain
Founders Amancio Ortega
Rosalía Mera
Headquarters Arteixo (A Coruña), Spain
Number of locations 10,000 stores
Area served Worldwide
Products Clothing
Revenue $18.9 billion annually (2018)
Parent Inditex
Website store.es
3. HISTORY OF THE BRAND
Amancio Ortega opened the first Zara store in 1975 in central A Coruña, Galicia,
Spain. Ortega initially named the store Zorba after the classic film Zorba the
Greek, but after learning there was a bar with the same name two blocks away,
they rearranged the letters molded for the sign to "Zara". It is believed the extra
"a" came from an additional set of letters that had been made for the
company. The first store featured low-priced lookalike products of popular,
higher-end clothing fashions. Ortega opened additional stores throughout Spain.
During the 1980s, Ortega changed the design, manufacturing, and distribution
process to reduce lead times and react to new trends in a quicker way, which he
called "instant fashions". The improvements included the use of information
technologies and using groups of designers instead of individuals.
5. SWOT ANALYSIS
Strengths
Ability to create fashion
Active use of stores
High turnover of product
Vertical systematization of product process
Weakness
Middle priced goods
Repeated sales of out-of-stocks
Limitation on service
Opportunity
Global fashion product
Diverse cultural area
Growth of fashion market
Threat
Emerging newcomers
Limitation of design copies
6. AD CAMPAIGN
Zara's Curvy Denim Ad Campaign Draws Backlash on Social
Media
Zara debuted a new denim line for curvy women, but they're
facing controversy over the ad campaign they've chosen to
promote the jeans. In a day and age where it should be looked
upon favorably to design for women of all sizes, the brand's
choice in models told the opposite story.
7. Social media presence
Fast-fashion giant Zara is worth over $13 billion - despite
spending less than 0.5% of its annual revenue on
advertising.
10. WEBSITE ANALYSIS
To conclude this statistics shows how Zara does not spend much on social
media advertisement and because of rich SEO practices it gets only .23 % of
the traffic from paid sources.
11. WEBSITE EXPERIENCE
Easy to use
Better UI than competitors like GAP, H&M etc
Does not lack with perfect UI and design.
Content is uploaded mostly on the official site of ZARA.
Good return and exchange policy
Pop-up filter to keep the customer engaged.
Re-marketing like every other brands.