Nike‚ Inc. (IPA: / ’naɪki/) (NYSE: NKE) is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered in Beaverton‚ near the Portland metropolitan area of Oregon. It is the world ’s leading supplier of athletic shoes and apparel and a major manufacturer of sports equipment with revenue in excess of $18.6 billion USD in its fiscal year 2008 (ending May 31‚ 2008). As of 2008‚ it employed more than 30‚000 people worldwide. Nike and Precision Castparts
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Nike: The Sweatshop Debate analyzes the legal‚ cultural and ethical challenges confronted by global business and will also examine the roles that host governments have played while summarizing the strategic and operational challenges facing global managers at Nike. Having standards in place will protect the organization from a major crisis like the one formally faced by Nike. Philip Knight and Bill Bowerman created the world’s largest sportswear company‚ Nike‚ in 1962. Nike now controls more than
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HITTING THE WALL: NIKE AND INTERNATIONAL LABOR PRACTICES Jeff Ballinger is a labor activist since high school who believes that any company should have a significant obligation towards even its lowliest workers. While being assigned to run AAFLI (Asian-American Free Labor Association) he was charged to investigate labor conditions in Indonesia plants and study minimum wage compliance by American companies. He chose Nike as his main target in effort to change labor conditions in manufacturing
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April. 2014 Most of the Nike products provide excellent proof of their product’s use. For example Nike has an advertisement that features Usain Bolt advertising Nike’s shoes and Gatorade. Besides Usain Bolt‚ there is a cheetah which symbolizes speed of the shoe which he races the cheetah across Africa’s wild to also represent the endurance of the shoes. He also drinks a Gatorade to rebuild stamina and starts the race again. The advertisers of the Nike advertisement appeal to the everyday
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CASE 14 NIKE‚ INC.: COST OF CAPITAL Cost of capital denotes the opportunity cost of using capital for a particular investment as oppose to the alternative investment which has similar systematic risk. It is extremely important since it is used in evaluating whether a project is feasible or not in the net present value (NPV) analysis‚ or in assessing the value of an asset. WACC (weighted average cost of capital) is the proportional average of each category of capital inside a firm (common
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1. Company name – What is the company doing in general? Nike is an American multinational corporation that is engaged in the design‚ development‚ manufacturing and worldwide marketing of footwear‚ apparel‚ equipment‚ accessories and services. They’re known universally for producing a wide range of sports equipment for the amateurs and the professionals. They’ve built their reputation thanks to a great marketing campaign and by sponsoring the most famous professional sportsmen. As of 2012‚
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Nike vs Puma Easily the biggest grudge match in Germany this month will not be between two of the countries competing‚ but 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
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A Cultural Study and Political Ecology of Nike Partially excerpted from Petrina‚ S. (2001). The political ecology of design and technology education: An inquiry into methods. International Journal of Technology and Design Education 10‚ 207-237. When we put our comfortable shoes on in the morning and take a step‚ our steps are always already scripted within powerful cultural processes. Shoes‚ no more so than the apparel covering our bodies‚ happen to provide particularly robust examples of how
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Nike Case Study Table of Contents Part 1 Page Introduction and Overview 3-4 Part 2 Nike Company Information 5-6 Part 3 Nike weaknesses 7-8 Part 4 Ethics and impacts 9-10 Part 5 Conclusion 11 References 12 Nike manufactures and markets sports apparel and equipment on a global scale. They operate in 160 different countries‚ and have revenues of $18
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approach‚ which was previously effective for Nike‚ centers all the business activities on continually innovating‚ improving and refining its products while it is under the assumption that customers simply want the best possible quality for their money. But due to changing circumstances and to pursue customer loyalty‚ Nike adapted the category driven approach which is derived from customer usage and purchase patterns. Post- internal and external analysis Nike concluded that there are primarily six major
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