Running‚ basketball‚ children’s‚ cross-training and women’s shoes were Nike’s top-selling product categories. Nike also offered shoes designed for outdoor activities like tennis‚ golf‚ soccer‚ baseball‚ football‚ bicycling‚ volleyball‚ wrestling‚ aquatic activities‚ hiking‚ and other athletic and recreational uses. Nike sold sports apparel‚ athletically inspired lifestyle apparel‚ as well as athletic bags and accessory items. Nike often marketed footwear‚ apparel and accessories in "collections"
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NIKE Inc. principle business activities are the design‚ development‚ and worldwide marketing of high quality footwear‚ apparel‚ equipment‚ and accessory products. They sell their products through NIKE owned retail stores and internet sales‚ and through a mix of independent distributors and licensees worldwide. Virtually all products are manufactured by independent contractor‚ with all footwear and apparel manufactured outside the US‚ while equipment products are mostly manufactured within the
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Nike was founded in 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports by University of Oregon track athlete Philip Knight and his coach Bill Bowerman‚ and officially became Nike‚ Inc. in 1978. The company takes its name from Nike‚ the Greek goddess of victory‚ and adopted the well-known logo‚ called the “Swoosh”‚ first used by Nike in 1971. Nike produces a wide range of sports equipments. Their first products were track running shoes‚ for a wide range of sports including track & field‚ tennis‚ baseball‚ Association
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2009). RNC started a websites like “MeetBarackObama” and “CanWeAsk” to highlight alleged flaws and push users to ask crucial question to him (Iyer & Purkayastha‚ 2009). Critically analyse‚ through the application of relevant theory‚ the use of IMC within the Barack Obama campaign. Information Technology changed the practice of marketing communications by intensifying the toolkit used to create‚ implement and deliver the message (Schultz
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Contents Page Executive Summary 2 Nike Inc. 2 Footwear Industry 3 Analyzing a Footwear Company.................................................................3 Trends in the Footwear Industry…………………………………………4 Nike’s Strategic Enablers in Gaining Competitive Advantage 4 Marketing & Promotion…………………………………………………...4 Production & Distribution………………………………………………...5 R&D………………………………………………………………………...5 Acquisition Strategy………………………………………………………..5
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For my business speech I chose to talk about an organization called Toms Shoes. I think that I made good choice because they are sold in both men’s and women’s and can appeal to any age. The organization helps out people in need unlike majority of companies that we buy from. When coming into class the following week after I had given my speech a fellow classmate (Faigy) told me that she was out and noticed someone with a pair of toms on and approached them telling them that she knew what they were
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strategies that Nike has created in tandem with the Football World Cup. The report examines the performance of Nike in relation with the Football World Cup and also tried to find out whether there were any alternatives to get an even better result. In this report I also compared Nike with its closest competitor‚ Adidas and evaluated the critical differences between these two organizations based on the marketing strategies that they have adopted to become successful. 1. Introduction Nike is the leading
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NIKE: How they make their employees "Just Do It" Nike was established by Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman in 1972 and is considered to be one of the leading global athletic shoes and apparel marketers. They had started by shoes that Tiger Shoes sent them and improving them to make them better for runners in their shop Blue Ribbon Sports. Jeff Johnson was the first employee of Blue Ribbon Sports who marketed "The Swoosh"
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Executive Summary Introduction This report will discuss in detail‚ the athletic footwear industry‚ and all aspects of its operations. It will focus on Nike‚ the industry’s leader‚ and a selected few of its competitors; Adidas-Salomon and Reebok‚ Sketchers‚ and K-Swiss. A brief overview of Nike and its competitor’s company profiles‚ brand portfolios‚ and current developments will provide an understanding that leads to an analysis of the external environment. This analysis further discusses
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NIKE Executive Summary by Lawrence Gimeno Recommendations: Make it count My first recommendation is directed at Nike’s push into digital sports. In my opinion the new accelerometer based Nike+ technology is the birth of a whole new generation of Nike products and an amazing innovation to motivate people to include sports into their everyday life. Nike has attained a leading role in almost every one of the upcoming world wide sporting events‚ such as the 2012 Olympics‚ the 2012 Soccer Euro Cup
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