Primark Retail
1. Introduction of Primark.
Background
Our research purpose
Primark, which was build up in Ireland, is one of the fast fashion leaders in the UK retail market. The all 181 stores spread over Ireland, Spain, and the UK. The competitive advantage of the group is producing volume clothes and selling them in cheap price. Primark sell different catalogue product, women clothing, men clothing, shoes, accessories, baby clothing, children clothing, underwear, swimwear and nightwear. Nearly cover all variety of the clothing. According to Primark website figure, “Primark Stores Lt is a subsidiary of Associated British Foods. Associated British Foods is a diversified international food, ingredients and retail group with global
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Most of Primark’s products are simple, not luxury but fashion, which attracts its customers very much. According to our questionnaire, % think that design is very important.
c).Few promotion, low advertising cost
Primark never do promotion, according to one manager of Primark in London. Regular business is what Primark concerns. In other words, they could pay more attention to the regular business. Cost caused by promotion could be saved. In addition, there are fewer advertisements about Primark which should be a big part of their marketing cost. We could never see brochure in Primark. No billboard of Primark in the street. No advertisement on the internet. But we could see Primark bags in people’s hand along the street. Nevertheless, Primark saves a lot of money in this aspect.
PLACE---location
Secondly we found out Primark makes a good choice about location. Almost each branch store locates in the high street. From the diagram which we have researched, it could be concluded that location is also one of the most important factors which motivate customers to purchase and make Primark successful. percent of customers would like to consider the location of garment stores when they go shopping. Convenience and easiness are the expectations during each time customer’s purchase. Few customers are willing to spend extra time going to a remote place merely for the purpose of buying clothes. Furthermore, Primark is sensible; it hardly locate the
The franchisor of Primark Menswear must make reasonable efforts to promote and maintain the network. These efforts include maintaining the good
The underlying company opened its stores in the United Kingdom and also the headquarter of the underlying company is located in the United Kingdom. Primark offers a variety of products which includes the kids clothing, men’s and women wear, accessories and beauty products, homeware and footwear etc. The main purpose of the underlying company is to sell the products at the lowest cost. The most crucial retailers of the underlying company include H&M and Zara. After the year 2000, Primark expanded its business in the United Kingdom. There are total 179 stores of the company in the United Kingdom. In the year 2006, Primark has joined trade unions and NGOs in order to work on the rights of labour. Primark used the effluent treatment plant that helps the company in eliminating the chemical in the manufacturing process. The waste water is used in the washing of the clothes and dye. The waste water then transferred to the tank and it separates from the dirt and dust. After that air plays a crucial role and it is used in the water in order to mix the water and lower down the temperature of water. In order to increase the Ph of water, a highly liquid is mixed in the water that helps to increase the Ph level of water. Ph is used in order to measure the liquidity and the acidity of water. Also, other liquids can be identified by using the Ph (Fezzi et.al, 2014
Primark meets the corporate social responsibility to environment at large. Firstly, Primark establishes a partnership with CottonConnect aiming to improve the farming technique that growing cotton with fewer resources. In this way, the farmers can earn more money for themselves. Secondly, in order to promote a green production
This report is based on the marketing techniques/ skills of Primark and Oxfam based on their products/services.
Primark has functional structure in order to ensure that every organizational aspect is being grouped according to its principle. With such type of business, it consists of various marketing division, like a production division and sales division. Primark is operating with tall structure.
The cloth market of UK is very growing. So there is both opportunities and threats of Primark in the UK fashion market. The Primark management must take necessary steps to make it sure that the Primark company utilizes its opportunities in their context. If they cannot overcome their threats then it can be very much costly. So they should be very much conscious about this matters. Advertising is also a very key factor to get success in the modern business world. So they must focus on
No, I think that Primark made a mistake for sacking their suppliers where they could have improved working conditions in India. They are a multi-million company and are known worldwide they had the money to improve working conditions for their workers instead of sacking 3 suppliers, which means that people who were not at any fault had lost their job and couldn’t provide for their families. In my opinion I think Primark could have easily overcome this situation which occurred in June 2008 by improving working conditions, they have gone against the rights of some people as research showed hundreds of people lost their jobs who had a right to be working there and were at no
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In United Kindom the economical contribution of the Primark is very important, and the primark followed business rules and regulation.
With the support of relevant examples, examine the development of management theories and how these theories may affect the management practices in PRIMARK: