purchasing power triggered by the sluggish job market, falling equity prices and rising inflationary pressure. For consumption to recover faster, we will need to see more aggressive tax rate cuts on personal income and capital gains, as well as stabilization of the property market
2) Where is the current fashion industry going?
① Slowdown in fashion industry
Consumer confidence weaken
. Introduction of ZARA
(1) Concept of SPA and Fast fashion
SPA which stands for ‘Specialty store of Private label Apparel’ came into the world in 1987. When America’s apparel brand ‘GAP’ took over ‘Banana Republic’ in 1987, people started to call their business status as ‘Specialty Store Retailer’. A SPA controls over plan, production, distribution, and retailing and thro
strategies of the foreign cosmetics companies and those of the Korean cosmetics companies in China. We conducted a study on the top 3 foreign cosmetics companies in Chinese cosmetic market-L’Oreal, Procter & Gamble Co and Shiseido-and two Korean cosmetic companies in China which can be the competitor with them- Laneige and Mamonde. After that, we will make some suggestion for Korean cosmetics c
1. Lotte Mart’s Background
1.1 Background History & Development
Lotte Mart is one of the “BIG3” big-box retailers- together with E-Mart, and Homeplus- in Korea, and is currently expanding its stores to other neighboring countries. The lines of commodities sold in Lotte Mart vary greatly from groceries, clothing, toys, to electronics and many others. Although Lotte Mart was a secondary
2) SWOT
Strengths
Coca Cola is an extremely recognizable company. Popularity is one of its superior strengths that are virtually incomparable. Coca Cola is known very well worldwide. It's branding is obvious and easily recognized. Things like, logos and promos shown on t-shirts, hats, and collectible memorabilia. Without a doubt, no beverage company compares to Coca Cola's social popularity s
Founder
Beautiful Store was established by an active social institution group member who is also a lawyer at the same time. Won-Soon Park was born in March 26th 1956. He was admitted to Seoul National University in 1975, but was expelled because of participating in a student movement. Then he entered Dankook University and graduated in 1979. He passed the bar exam just a year after graduation.
As already referred above, the level of complexity of the jobs in financial firms is extremely high, and it causes strict separation of the divisions in the organizations. Divisions in the firms are usually separated by the tasks required to the members of them. For operating and management division, general skills and abilities are required, but for financing analysts, who are the core workforce
support and held meetings for La Cagoule at L’Oréal headquarters. La Cagoule was a violent French fascist-leaning and anti-communist group. L'Oréal hired several members of the group as executives after World War II. In 1920, the small company employed three chemists. By 1950, the research teams were 100 strong; that number reached 1,000 by 1984 and is nearly 2,000 today.
1. Look across alternative industries
Demand-side competitors (NTT DoCoMo’s i-mode)
What are the alternative industries to your industry?
Why do customers trade across them?
By focusing on the key factors (mobility, killer apps)
that lead buyers to trade across alternative industries and
eliminating or reducing everything else,
you can create a blue ocean
model.
Strategic Outsourcing
Amazon outsources some of its value chain activity to outside companies. Amazon is an online retailer and does not manufacturing the entire product it sells on its websites, outsourcing delivery service as well. Also, increasing number of B&M companies start its own online retail service after Amazon start the business, but they realize the high operating cost. Wh