CHAPTER 1: COMPANY BACKGROUND Nike is the world ’s leading designer‚ marketer and distributor of athletic footwear‚ apparel‚ equipment and accessories for a range of sports and fitness activities. Nike is headquartered in Beaverton‚ Oregon and owns facilities in Tennessee‚ North Carolina and The Netherlands. The company operates in the Americas‚ Europe‚ the Middle East‚ Africa and Asia Pacific. Nike’s primary product focus is athletic footwear designed for specific-sport and/or leisure use. Nike
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list of guiding principles at a crucial time in the company’s history. It was 1977‚ and the 13-year-old company was prospering. Sales had reached $28 million‚ but Knight wasn’t satisfied. Because he wanted to be number one and beat his staunch rival‚ Adidas‚ he conceived this list of principles in the faith that they would foster the behavior that would get him and his company where he wanted to be: NIKE PRINCIPLES 1. Our business is change. 2. We’re on offense. All the time. 3. Perfect results count—not
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Brand : Nike Inc. Definition Of Internal Value: A unique combination of systems‚ processes and networks within the organization to provide a sustainable differentiating factor among competitors and customers. Introduction: Nike was founded in the year 1964 when it was called by the name ‘Blue Ribbon Sports’ ‚ by Bill Bowerman and Philip Knight ‚ and later became known as Nike Inc.‚ (derived from the Greek Goddess of victory)in 1978. Explanation: Nike is one of
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Hollywood‚ Paris’ Palais Royal‚ Milan and Tokyo. Out of the twenty-three shops this paper focuses on the store in London‚ Mayfair. Stella McCartney collections range from women’s ready-to-wear‚ accessories‚ lingerie‚ eyewear‚ children’s wear‚ and Adidas by Stella McCartney. Marie Claire calls McCartney‚ the queen of Eco-Cool. As a strict vegetarian‚ McCartney refuses to use fur or leather in her designs and is a strong supporter of PETA. In some of the designs the text elaborates on her “no animal”
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Get‚ Set‚ Style ! Long before the days of Lycra and spandex‚ ladies wore the height of fashion to cycle like Olympic record holder‚ Victoria Pendleton who wore a long-skirted white dress and tall bonnet trimmed with flowers. Women players wore corsets‚ painful and restricting‚ until 1925 when Suzanne Leglan wore a simple (and daring) one-piece cotton frock‚ without a petticoat or corset in sight. Stockings were discarded in 1929‚ and by 1939 tennis fashion became recognisably sportier and maybe
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between homegrown Adidas and‚ of course‚ American arch-rivals Nike. The business media is already hot on the Stripes versus the Swoosh‚ with the German brand reportedly splashing out double Nike’s estimated £60m World Cup marketing spend. But what about the shirts themselves? Which ones would you want to play in‚ and which should be left on the backs of the die-hards down the pub? Out of the six countries they’re dressing‚ including hosts Germany‚ and also France‚ the best Adidas shirt has to be
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inside look at one of the largest brands on the planet. One of the last college classes that Knight takes at Stanford is a seminar to entrepreneurship. In this class be gave a presentation on how the running shoes form Japan could undercut brands like Adidas‚ which manufacture in European factories. The Japanese factories could produces shoes at a fraction
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Marketing Plan: Adidas AG Taylor Fjeldheim Principles of Marketing Executive Summary Adidas AG sells sports shoes‚ apparel‚ and equipment in 170 different countries. There focus lies in football‚ soccer‚ basketball‚ running‚ training gear‚ golf‚ and apparel. This is a two billion dollar industry and with Adidas being a main cog. They also specialize in lifestyle goods including SLVR and Y-3 fashion brands. They have trademarked their three-striped logo that has become a
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New Balance is the big five sneaker companies in the world. Comparing to other big five‚ including Nike‚ Adidas‚ and Reebok‚ it has its specific operations strategy. In fact‚ the idea of ‘Keeping unique’ is what they insist from the day one of its business. New balance emphasize on values of fit‚ performance‚ and manufacturing. It builds a distinct culture in its network internally and externally. The owners of New Balance would like to differentiate from their competitors. It includes the following
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recognize Adidas is three parallel stripes of the samecolor.Slogan: ?IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING?1. History 1949-2005Due to the death of Adolf?s son (Horst Dassler)‚ the Company was bought in 1990 byBernard Tapie. Back then Tapie was specialist of rescuing bankrupt companies. Nextstep was to change the place of production to Asia and make a promotion campaign by using a famous person as Madonna (famous singer). In 1992 economical problemslead Tapi to sell Adidas to Lyonnais bank. Lyonnais sold Adidas to Robert Louis-Dreyfus
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