With adidas and Reebok Combined‚ Will Nike Still Crush the Competition? September 21‚ 2005 Letter of Transmittal September 21‚ 2005 "Will adidas ’ forthcoming takeover of Reebok help the new company achieve sustainable competitive advantage over industry leader Nike?" After researching the many aspects of this question‚ we were able to come to a conclusion. In order to address the full scope of the question our team evaluated the following areas: Background Information
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Adidas Marketing Plan Adidas is the number two sporting goods maker in the world‚ second to Nike. The company has long focused on being the footwear for sports and high performance. The company has three components: Adidas‚ Reebok‚ newly acquired in 2006‚ and TaylorMade‚ well known on the Pro Am Golf Tour. (Adidas Group Annual Report‚ 2008) This marketing plan will focus on the Adidas brand. While research indicates there’s a belief that Adidas makes better footwear than Nike (Vertical Ascent
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Ellen Meyer Dr. White MANG 497 March 29‚ 2012 Adidas Case Analysis Current Strategy Adidas went through a stage of restructuring when the company’s corporate strategy needed to be revamped. Before 2009‚ adidas focused on making acquisitions that would ultimately lead to overtaking Nike as the leader of the global sporting goods industry. In 2009‚ adidas restructured the corporate strategy to extend its leadership in product innovation‚ creating a differentiated image for the products
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about the company adidas that belongs to the adidas Group. The adidas Group sells products under the brands adidas‚ Reebok and TaylorMade-adidas Golf. Adidas is on the market over 80 years and sells products for every kind of sports. The adidas group was founded in the year 1949 by Adolf Dassler. A company that started with selling soccer shoes contains today a wide product assortment with footwear‚ apparel and accessories. The brand is further divided into three subbrands called adidas performance‚ original
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Adidas History Adidas was founded in 1924 in Germany by two bothers Adi and Rudolf Dassler. The company was first named Dassler shoes and later became Adidas. By the Dassler shoes being seen in the Olympics this really helped the company get its name known. However‚ in 1948 Rudolf Dassler leaves to start his own company which is now known as Puma. Once Rudolf left his brother came up with the famous three stripes logo and changed the name to Adidas. The 3 stripes were created to keep the
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The purpose of this case assignment is to evaluate Adidas’ new promotional campaign and identify the key factors affecting its success. Promotion serves as one of the fundamental tenets in marketing mix. Promotion is the communication of information by a seller to influence the attitudes and behaviors of potential buyers.1 (Christ). Advertising‚ sales promotion‚ and public relations comprises promotion which are used to target specific buyers.2 These three aspects of promotion work together to
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For Adidas‚ the beginning was with shoes. “Shoes to play in‚ shoes to play better in‚ shoes to win in.” Shoes that‚ one day would go on to be worn by champions that would win trophies and medals‚ shoes that would break impossible records. Athletes of all kinds would wear them and create magic wearing them. Today‚ Adidas is one of the world’s leading brands‚ recognized and respected. In 1925‚ in a small German village‚ the world got its first taste of Adidas. It was there‚ in a village by the name
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Adidas sports wear competes in the most competitive market. The sports apparel industry has been Nikes market. Over the past years Nike has gain a competitor in Adidas. Adidas is a growing company because it changed its strategy to deal with every major sport and not just tennis and soccer and the European market. Adidas was able to get some major colleges to use their equipment. Some major colleges to change are UCLA‚ Notre Dame‚ and Tennessee to name a few. Since the change Adidas has grown into
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Student number: 0880732 Term paper Handelshøyskolen BI - Adidas AG - Exam code and name EXC 25093 Financial Statements and Valuation Hand-in date: 15.04.2011 Place of study: BI Oslo Program: Bachelor in Business and Administration Table of contents Summary ii Adidas 1 Sports Apparel Industry 1 Economic Situation 2 - Financial Statement Evaluation 2 - Profitability ratios 3 - Efficiency ratios 4 - Liquidity and cash flow ratios
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is to compare and identify the various marketing strategies followed by two of the world’s best sports company’s Adidas and Nike as they have been in rivalry for a long time. I would also like to find out the strengths and weakness of both the companies. INTRODUCTION OF THE COMPANIES ADIDAS Adidas AG is a German sports apparel manufacturer and parent company of the Adidas Group‚ which consists of the Reebok sportswear company‚ golf company (including Ashworth)‚ and Rockport. Besides
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