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Author Badía, Enrique.

Title Zara and her sisters : the story of the world's largest clothing retailer / Enrique Badía
Published Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents A place called Artelxo -- An entrepreneur called Ortega -- And some ideas gestating -- A family from a garage in search of gaps in the sector -- The concept takes shape: manufacturing becomes industrial -- Market and customer- the start and finish of everything -- The first attempt to open a shop doesn't take- but the success of Zara can be seen -- Logistics: the challenge of marrying production and distribution -- Thinking big: Galicia is too small -- And Spain, too -- Concepts aimed at reaching everybody: adding chains -- On the road to the Stock Exchange -- The market price -- Isla for Castellano: the light and shade of a scare in the form of a crisis -- A model for management -- Amancio, Indltex and the future- with the family? -- Epilogue: a sensation- or perhaps rather more
Summary Zara is the best known Spanish brand at an international level, and is listed among the hundred most valuable companies in the world. This insightful new book reveals the secrets behind Zara's success and examines the steps that its creator, Amancio Ortega, took to make Zara the global market leader in fashion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Translated from the Spanish
Print version record
Subject Ortega Gaona, Amancio, 1936-
SUBJECT Ortega Gaona, Amancio, 1936- fast (OCoLC)fst01593290
Subject Zara Ltd.
SUBJECT Zara Ltd. fast (OCoLC)fst01796608
Subject Fashion merchandising -- Case studies
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Corporate & Business History.
Fashion merchandising.
Mode.
Textileinzelhandel.
Welt.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230239623
0230239625
9781282278264
1282278266
Other Titles Zara-- y sus hermanas. English