St. John’s University Student Managed Investment Research Equity Research NIKE (NKE) April 4‚ 2004 Recommendation: Sector: Industry: BUY Consumer Cyclical Footwear 76.64 78.56 49.60 263.12M .80 20.17B 10‚697M 21.66% $94.85 Price: 52 – Week High: 52 – Week Low: Shares Out (mil): Dividend: Market Cap: 2003 Revenue: Project EPS Growth: 2005 Target Price: Highlights Rudy Dermesropian rdermes@hotmail.com Jason A. Drago Jdrag636@stjohns.edu Gintare Grigaite Gintare.grigaite01@stjohns.edu
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Executive Summary The company strategy that Nike uses is an ingenious one. A strategy that founder Phil Knight thought of while still in school at Stanford. Instead of paying Americans to put together Nike’s shoes‚ Knight thought that it would be a better idea to take manufacturing plants overseas to places where labor is much cheaper than in the U.S.‚ places like Taiwan and South Korea. With 86% of its products being produced in one of those two countries and Nike employing a large number of people who
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NIKE HISTORY Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight founded Nike Inc. as Blue Ribbon Sports in 1962 with a handshake. The two man team began the company with a combined investment of $500 each. They reached an agreement with a Japanese manufacturer of athletic shoes‚ forming BRS/Tiger shoes. Phil Knight started this company selling shoes from the trunk of his car. As the empire grew‚ the two man team developed the idea to cut overheard. In 1972‚ BRS and Onitsuka Tiger went different ways and thus Nike
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beginning staages of Reebok‚ J.W. Foster devveloped the novelty ¨spiked running shoe¨ while he was producing the item. He then changed the company´s name from J.W. Foster and Sons to Reebok. Although Reebok has been in the shadows of major competitors Nike and Adidas‚ they still manage to be a successfful sports wear market. Reebok underrstands customers neeeds and continue to enhance as an international brand. While sportswear is becoming increasingly popular the bulk of sales ccome from the Rss 2000
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Nike’s mission statement is simple: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete in the world. If you have a body‚ you are an athlete. (NIKE) Nike originated because of two men‚ Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight. Bowerman was the Track and Field coach at the University of Oregon‚ while Knight was one of his runners. Bill Bowerman wanted to design shoes for his runners that would maximize their performance. Upon Graduating‚ Knight felt that high performance running shoes could be produced in
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Case study: Nike: the Sweatshop Debate 1) Should Nike be held responsible for working condition in factories that it does not own‚ but where sub-contractors make products for Nike? Nike doesn’t own any manufacturing facilities and outsource its production. Therefore‚ it can’t be directly blamed for terrible working conditions. Nike can influence indirectly on working conditions at contracting factories thorough refusing to work with sweatshop factories. However‚ Nike‚ like any other capitalistic
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1.Executive Summary This marketing plan mainly describes Nike future development strategies and goals. This report will include the situation analysis‚ market-product focus‚ the detailed marketing programme and the financial data and projections. In the coming year‚ Nike is going to launch a new product called Nike+ FuelBand‚ which will be marketed in Hong Kong in 2014. The Fuelband allows the wearer to track their physical activity‚ steps taken daily‚ and amount of calories burned. The
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the 1990s‚ Nike was forced to review and change its operations in order to please the expanding group of conscientious customers who are concerned with the conditions under which the products are manufactured (Suehle‚ 2011). The pressure for change resulted in Nike’s decision to integrate corporate and social responsibility (CSR) into its business operations. Since then‚ Nike has acknowledged the importance of CSR to their innovation and performance‚ and has been progressively working towards integrating
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Case: "Nike: The Sweatshop Debate" 1. Should Nike be held responsible for working conditions in foreign factories that it does not own‚ but where subcontractors make products for Nike? Yes‚ Nike is not only responsible but also accountable for the working conditions of foreign countries that it does not own. Nike should realize that it is a Global Organization and working globally does not only mean that taking advantage of low cost destination but also taking responsibility of the contractors/employees
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Nike (NKE) In the 1950’s‚ Bill Bowerman‚ a track and field coach at the University of Oregon‚ began cobbling shoes for his runners. Bowerman and one of his runners Phil Knight formed Blue Ribbon Sports and sold shoes for Tiger shoes in 1964. While Knight was selling the shoes‚ Bowerman was ripping them apart to see how he could make them lighter and made his runners test his improved shoes. Their first full-time employee‚ Jeff Johnson‚ was an early designer of shoes and came up with the name Nike
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