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Strategic Assesment at Inditex
Due date 29.11.2010

Business Quality Management

Strategic and Operational Performance Assessment at Inditex Group

Statescu Victor (victor_dreadknight_2006@yahoo.com) Professor: Purcarea Irina

Teodorescu Florian Andrei (tzoppy_2004@yahoo.com)

Vulpescu Victor-Emanuel (victor_joola@yahoo.com)

Tanase Valentin-Stefan (valentin.tanase.89@gmail.com)

Group 137

FABIZ English 3rd year

Strategic and Operational Performance Assessment at Inditex Group

1.)Introduction

The Inditex Group (Spanish: Industrias de Diseño Textil Sociedad Anónima) is a large Spanish corporation and one of the world largest fashion groups. The Inditex Group is made up of almost a hundred companies dealing with activities related to textile design, production and distribution. Amancio Ortega Gaona is the founder and current chairman of Inditex. He is also Spain 's richest man.
Inditex runs over 4500 stores worlwide for different brands: • Zara International (833 stores) • Pull and Bear (423) • Massimo Dutti (360) • Bershka (354) • Stradivarius (257) • Oysho (146) • Zara Home (105) • Lefties ()
In Romania, Inditex is in a continuous development and has at this time 37 stores in the most important cities of Romania .
Most stores are corporate-owned since franchises are only conceded in areas where corporate properties can not be bought (as in the Middle East). The group designs and manufactures almost everything by itself, and new designs are dispatched twice a week to Zara stores.

History

The first Zara shop opened its doors in 1975 in A Coruña (Galicia Spain), the city which saw the Group 's early beginnings and which is now home to its central offices. Today Inditex 's shops can be seen in places like New York 's Fifth Avenue, Paris ' Champs-Élysées, London 's Regent Street or Tokyo 's Shibuya Shopping Centre. At Zara, design is conceived as a process that is



References: : www.inditex.com www.inditex.es www.zara.com Inditex Group Annual Report 2008.pdf

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