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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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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Nike Case Analysis Prepared for Consumer Behavior Introduction Nike is the largest seller of athletic footwear and athletic apparel in the world with subsidiaries in over 200 countries across the world. It is a company that was founded by Phil Knight in the 1960’s‚ who was a talented middle-distance runner from Portland. He approached the Onitsuka Co. in Kobe‚ Japan‚ and persuaded the manufacturer of Tiger shoes to make
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levels as they complete their work at Nike and represent the Nike corporation globally. •"It is our nature to innovate. •Nike is a company. •Nike is a brand. •Simplify and go. •The consumer decides. •Be a sponge. •Evolve immediately. •Do the right thing. •Master the fundamentals. •We are on the offense – always. •Remember the man. (The late Bill Bowerman‚ Nike co-founder)" Manager Manifesto -It is a set of Core Principles that describe how Nike managers lead with excellence
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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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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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How to Calculate your adjusted Active Duty service date (ADSD) and resulting year group (YG). See MILPERSMAN 1000-030 for definition of ADSD. The year group is the fiscal year in which an adjusted ADSD falls. To determine your adjusted ADSD and YG‚ follow these steps: 1. Total all active service time‚ including active component (regular Navy) service‚ mobilization‚ ADSW‚ ADT‚ AT‚ CANREC‚ and voluntary recall. Do not include drills (inactive duty training (IDT)‚ inactive duty training travel (IDTT))
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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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selling price of the product. Step 2: Calculate unit revenue or price of the product under question Determination of per unit revenue is quite easy. It is the per unit selling price of any product. Therefore‚ if you know the per unit selling price then it is your revenue earned per unit of the product. However‚ if per unit price is unknown then dividing total sales by the number of units produced can also fetch you the per unit price. It is better to calculate the per unit revenue because contribution
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NIKE‚ INC.: COST OF CAPITAL Professor Meiberger By Sebastian Gomez Team 5 Cohort: Front The portfolio manager for NorthPoint Group‚ Kimi Ford was deciding if she should pitch in and draw Nike within NorthPoint Large-Cap Fund. Nike‚ which did not have the strongest fiscal year results in 2001‚ was implementing new strategies to heighten its revenue and income. Kimi Ford‚ after having carefully read reports by analyst‚ and their input within this publicly traded company decided to emphasize
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