ZARA Will Start To Split Profits With Employees Next Year.

In order to encourage staff In 2015, Inditex decided to implement a two-year staff incentive mechanism starting next year. Inditex will share the profits in the form of cash dividends with 70 thousand employees scattered in 54 markets, but the employees will be required to work in the company for more than two years.

The whole incentive plan is divided into two parts: in 2016, Inditex will be presented as a bonus from 10% of the 2015 year-on-year growth in the group's combined profits, and the second part will be distributed in 2017 according to the same distribution method.

"We want to make sure that all Inditex employees contribute to the development of the company." Inditex President Pablo Isla said in announcing the plan.

As Inditex's largest brand Zara has experienced a difficult process of sales growth from 2% in 2013 to 7% in 2014. 2014 in the first half of the year, net sales of Zara fell 7.3% in the first quarter, the biggest decline in 5 years, due to the increase in sales costs due to exchange rate changes and large expansion of stores.

Pressure from market and finance forced Zara to change its strategy. It had to shift its focus from brand expansion to profit growth. Inditex is no longer eager to introduce as many brands as possible, but instead improves the efficiency of existing flagship stores. At the same time, Zara has opened online stores in Mexico, Korea, Romania and China. The adjustment of strategy led Zara to reverse the drop in profit in the second half of 2014.

This year, Zara's electronic business platform will continue to advance in Hongkong, Macao and Taiwan, and will open 420-480 new stores in the European and American markets.

However, Zara's biggest competitor. H&M I'm not idle. H&M sales increased 14% in 2014, exceeding 7% of Zara, and announced in February this year that the company will promote long-term investment plans, covering e-commerce, new concept development, new product category innovation and so on. H&M will also open 400 new stores, mainly targeting the US and Chinese markets.

It sounds like an endless competitive drama. H&M may soon announce a similar draft of employee motivation.