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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50219 BBS 3FA CASE SUMMARY & HIGHLIGHTS Formation of Nike In 1958‚ Phil Knight came realised the need of a good American running shoe and started working on his idea. In 1964‚ he along with Bowerman formed an athletic shoe company and called it Blue Ribbon Shoe (BRS) company. In 1971‚ they developed a distinctive trademark and a new brand name and this is how Nike came into existence. Exceptional economic performance Nike grew at an amazingly fast pace with profits growing from $10 million
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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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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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History of Nike Nike‚ who currently ranks as 136 in the fortune 500 for America’s largest corporations‚ has come a long way since its humble beginning of in the 1960’s. Founded by visionaries Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight who at the time had no clue how much of an impact this footwear would make in the marketing world. Bill Bowerman was a track and field coach at the University of Oregon with enormous amount of knowledge on athletics and was always looking to help his players maintain the advantage
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on campus such as Hindu Students Council‚ South Asian Students Association‚ and Treasurer for Pre-Pharmacy club. My future plan is to graduate from UMBC‚ go to pharmacy school‚ and work in a retail pharmacy. I wish to obtain a Resident Assistant position where I can expand my time management‚ public relations‚ and leadership skills that can make me an efficient person in future not only in a workplace but also in my daily
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“My future plans and expectation” As a child‚ I found my self looking up to many people and admiring those that had accomplished so many great things in their lives. I grew up in a household of eight people; I am the fifth child of six. I never thought about my future plans and expectation growing up. I started thinking about my future when I was in high school and then after. I never thought that I would finish high school. Many friends and family have told me that I was not cut out
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My future career and plans The first I have to do is to finish this school. After it there I would like to study The University of Economics or Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Czech Technical University. Rather I would like to study the University of Economics‚ because after finishing it I would have two qualifications‚ computer specialist and engineer of economy. The second school is very good too‚ because I would have a complex overview in computers. During the studies I would like
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Proposal for Nike Dri-FIT Market Research Prepared for: Alison Dean June 14‚ 2009 Table of Content Executive Summary Background Problem Definition Research Design Fieldwork Data Collection Data Analysis Reporting Timing Appendices Executive Summary This proposal responds to your brief of June 15 2009 and describes: Business Objective: – to change‚ reinvigorate or phase out the Dri-FIT range of products Research Objective: – to assess if consumers are aware
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Executive Summary Nike introduced Nike plus with a narrow target market in mind. They targeted people who where not serious runners‚ but are health conscious and like to exercise recreationally. With this in mind Nike advertised on certain channels that appeal to an audience in their mid 20’s. They also got media attention from the popular Discovery channel show Daily Planet. Their advertisements can be found in Mens Health Magazine which hits their target market right on. They designed it
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