Rethinking Business

In exploring the theme “Rethinking Business” we learned that the country that exports the most clothing is:

• Zara

• Australia

• China

In the reading “Changing Fashion” in the world of fast fashion, rather than only releasing a few new collections each year, companies like Zara sell a never-ending cycle of trend-led clothing, all year around.

• True

• False

A company that owns smaller businesses.

• initial public offering

       

• parent company

• high traffic

Why are customers motivated to visit Zara stores more frequently than other stores?

• Because its designers are extremely good at predicting future fashion trends.

• Because Zara will regularly offer huge discounts on many of its products.

•       Because items in Zara store are only available for a relatively short time.

Writers often put prepositional, time, and verbal phrases at the beginning of sentences before the main clause to vary their sentence structure and to change the emphasis in a sentence.

• True

• False

Select the multi-word phrase.  Something that “deviated the norm”.

• Followed well-established ways of doing things.

• Done something different from what was expected.

Brunello Cucinelli is a luxury Italian fashion Brand best known for:

• low-cost jeans.

• high-end makeup.

• cashmere sweaters.

What are two ways to organize a comparative essay?

• argumentative method

• block method and point-by-point method.

Choose the statement that best summarizes the writer's main idea.

• Zara is successful because it follows established norms of the fashion industry. .

• Zara has achieved success because it is run differently from other clothing companies.   

• Zara owes its sucess to closely following the practices of other clothing companies.

In the production process, the __________ is the period of time between the decision to make a product and the completion of actual production.

• economy of scale

• lead time

• inventory