1. With which of the international competitors listed in the case is it most interesting to compare Inditex’s financial results? Why? What do comparisons indicate about Inditex’s relative operating economics? Its relative capital efficiency?
GAP H&M Benetton Inditex
ROIC -0.15% 24.16% 11.20% 27.24%
Return on sales -0.06% 9.60% 7.05% 10.46%
COGS/sales 7
III. Overseas Chinese Capital in East Asian Region
1. Hong Kong
The population of Hong Kong is about 6.3 million and 98% of it is Chinese with 90% of them are from Guangdong province. The external structure of large corporates in Hong Kong seems to be westernized but the internal look shows rather family-oriented management system. Until 1988, ten family-owned companies dominated about 54
the environment.
Furthermore, compare to other competitiveness, The Face Shop do not contain those following components:
Paraben, Pigment, alcohol, artificial flavourings, benzophenone, mineral oil.
3) STP
(1) Segmentation
① Demographical variables: women (late10’s~early 30’s) who are interested in make-up
② Geographical variables: thecapital-centered region, dominant commerci
the wealthy, developed nations and accepted to OECD. However, the ambitious financial liberalization of president Kim Young Sam had failed miserably. Some scholars claim that the reform had failed due to the absence of the state intervention and supervision. Regardless of the cause, the reform had failed and the Korean economy collapsed. Foreign capital outflow was rapid and short term loans coul
Methodology
First of all, we assumed that there were two competing regions that candidates sought vote for. One is Honam region that includes all of Cholla province, Gwangju as the main city and the other is Youngnam region that includes Kyungsang province, Busan, Ulsan and Daegu as the representing cities.
We used two main methods to analyze the general flow of regionalism. First, to effec