Nike‚ a company headquartered in Beaverton‚ Oregon‚ is a major force in the sports footwear and fashion industry‚ with annual sales exceeding $ 12 billion‚ more than half of which now come from outside the United States. The company was co-founded in 1964 by Phil Knight‚ a CPA at Price Waterhouse‚ and Bill Bowerman‚ college track coach‚ each investing $ 500 to start. The company‚ initially called Blue Ribbon Sports‚ changed its name to Nike in 1971 and adopted the “Swoosh” logo recognizable
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Brand Building Nike Marketing Essay History Nike is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. 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. It employed more than 30‚000 people worldwide. The company was founded in January 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports by Bill Bowerman and Philip Knight‚ and officially became Nike‚ Inc. in 1978
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Brand Inventory Report – Nike Footwear MAR6816 – Advanced Marketing Management Summer 2015 2-Year Internet MBA University of Florida Team 8 Members: Jordan Ariche Stephanie Gomillion Lauren Lupo Ken Oliveri NIKE BRAND HERITAGE Nike was founded in 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports and originally operated as a distributor for the Japanese shoemaker Onitsuka Tiger (known today as Asics). Bill Bowerman‚ a track and field coach‚ and Phil Knight‚ middle-distance runner‚ from University of Oregon‚ created
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DUTA WACANA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | NIKE‚ Inc. Business Strategy Analysis | Issues in Strategic Information Management | BIS301 | Elia Sagita Wijaya E1000235 | Table of Contents I. Executive Summary 2 II. Background and Assumptions 2 III. Mission Statement‚ Goals and Objectives 2 IV. Remote Environment 3 A. Economic Factors 3 B. Social Factors 3 C. Political and Legal Factors 4 V. Porter’s Five Forces 4 A. Bargaining Power of Suppliers 4 B. Bargaining
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Introduction Nike is in many ways the quintessential global corporation. Established in 1972 by former University of Oregon track star Phil Knight‚ Nike is now one of the leading marketers of athletic shoes and apparel on the planet. In 2006‚ the company has $15 billion in annual revenues and sold its products in some 140 countries. Nike does not do any manufacturing. Rather‚ it designs and markets its products‚ while contracting for their manufacture from a global network of 600 factories scattered
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methods. Nike as a company used to be a very production focused company‚ that is‚ it focused on having a competitive advantage through inexpensive production and technologically superior product design. Most recently however Nike has opted to become a customer oriented company and that is to create products that Nike’s customers truly value. To do so it has had to do extensive research on all of its target segments in order to find out what each segment wanted out of the product. As Nike is a global
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Nike World Headquarters 1 Bowerman Drive Beaver‚ OR 97005 Carmina Villegas 14 August 2009 To whom it may concern: A few weeks ago I went over to Westfield Plaza Bonita and purchased brand new black NIKE basketball shoes from Finish Line. The shoes were kept in the box after the purchase for one week‚ and after the first use‚ they began to tear apart. The first time I used them was in a basketball game. After that‚ I was devastated about the results of the shoes because I did not expect
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Marketing Plan for NIKE MM 522 – Keller Gratudate School of Management Executive
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NIKE Social Responsibilities in Southeast Asia Contents Introduction 1 Thesis 1 Key Topics 2 Topic 1 2 Topic 2 4 Topic 3 6 Conclusion 8 Reference Page 9 Figure 1: From NIKE’s FY1999 through FY2013 their Gross Profit has more than tripled‚ from $3.51B to $11.55B. 2 Figure 2: The original prototype Nike running shoe with the waffle tread pattern. This was the first of many innovations for the company. 3 Figure 3: Nike manufacturing facility in Vietnam. The employees work 10 hrs a day 6 days a
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Survey‚ Nike and Li Ning (shoes) We Have done an survey and a questionnaire between Nike Shoes and Li Ning Shoes. We have chosen these two brands because they are big competitors in the Chinese market and also worldwide. Nike has been a strong manufacturer in the sport shoes market for a long time and Li Ning is very new in the Sport shoes market‚ still Li Ning has entered strongly in to the market with a high quality‚ high performance and a very competitive price. Our purpose with this survey
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