"Value creation is the central idea in any retail activity. The key to sustainable business success is the generation of significant value for the customer, as retailers can only justify their mark-ups and thus operate sustainably successful if sufficient value is generated for the customer.".
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"Turning to the fashion retailing industry - this is an example of a market particularly characterized by an increasingly fast pace. Retailers are required to swiftly adapt the product offering to contemporary and increasingly even fleeting trends in order to satisfy customers. Therefore, it is not surprising to find that, first, backward integrated firms, that is, retailers who produce (a certain share of) their own products, also tend to be more successful in fashion retailing (see Figure 2). The reason for the latter phenomenon is that backward integrated retailers are better able to react flexibly to customer demands and to manage and control product quality better. Thus, if retailers can manage to have up-to-date knowledge about the latest fashion trends and customer expectations, then a backward-integration strategy has the potential to generate significant customer value.Trechos retirados de "Value Creation in International Physical Retailing" de Werner Reinartz e Monika Käuferle, publicado por Journal of Creating Value 1(1) 72–78
Second, another related success factor is the usage of a fast-fashion strategy. ‘H&M’ and ‘Zara’ (Inditex) are, amongst others, famous for frequent and short term changes in their product lines to respond and to even foster the fast pace of today’s markets. While ‘H&M’ is able to generate value as it designs its own products, ‘Zara’ (Inditex) successfully responds to the challenging cycle time and can thus ideally adapt to market conditions and customer demands. Thus, if fashion-retailers are willing and able to continuously examine changing market conditions and customer demands, then a fast-fashion strategy has the potential to generate significant customer value."