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The fashion context is tough to impress, but Amancio Ortega proved it can be succeeded with the fast fashion Zara brand. The thing that changes with time is fashion since, from the ’80s, the change has impacted very gracefully. Keeping customers’ fashion thoughts first, Zara took a long way from a small store to global fashion, showing the fashionable story of an international brand.
In 1975 a business model that produces unique design, production, and sales with wide retail networks. It is flagship extended from the cloth store Inditex Group by Amancio Ortega in Spain with a small store with the name Zorba inspired by the film Zorba the Greek in 1964. As a store with the name Zorba, it changed to Zara with some scrambling of letters. Since then, it hasn’t seen a drop in the e-commerce field. Annually, it keeps adding more value with fast fashion sense. Initially, expanded locally later in 1976, allowing it to expand its network of stores to the other main Spanish cities.
In information technology, things need to instantly reach the height of the marketing strategy caught by Ortega. Hence, he always managed to develop a new design within a precise week, influencing the successful market rate.
Further, in the ’20s, the business expanded widely around Portugal, New York (USA), Paris (France), Mexico, Greece, Belgium, Sweden, Malta, Cyprus, Norway, and Israel. And also it has opened 2,220 stores and is present in 88 countries. Zara has consistently acted as a fast-fashion pioneer based on a highly responsive supply chain.
Founder – Amancio Ortega
Amancio Ortega Gaona is a founder of the global fashion influencing platform famously known as Zara. Amancio was born on born 28 March 1936. At the very young age of 14, he started to learn to make clothes in the same corner store in Coruñ, Spain, due to the financial support of his family. No one ever known corner would have been so focused with effort and practical work.
Initially started with bathrobe quilt in 1963 with confecciones Goa and in 1975, his wife Rosalia Mera opened first-ever store Zara part of Inditex. With significantly less advertising publicity, he made his brand stand as a show topper with his creativity in marketing strategies.
Successful tricks
Being a brand makes it very hard to keep up with high-quality products and sell them at an affordable price along with beauty, clarity, functionality, and sustainability.
Zara began to sell its products online in September, and by the end of 2010, the online platform was live in 16 European markets. Nowadays, it is available over the world that people can access and purchase quality items at reasonable prices and short response times.
Single products can’t decide on products with similar tactics. Zara produces a unique team design with new trends based on a seasonal approach. And shows how quickly responds to consumer behavior with speed distribution.
Zara as a brand
With all those struggles to keep up with the phase of fashion trends, it finally acquired a place in “The World’s most valuable brands of 2020”. No advertising policy gives the sense that it focuses on the product more than publicity. So, now it is the world’s largest fashion group with more than 170,000 employees operating more than 7,400 stores in 96 markets worldwide. And 49 online markets.
The revenues of Inditex were $70 billion in 2022. Seeing this rigorous growth and publicity without media communication is an aspiring story to fashion influencers’ upcoming brands.