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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Oxfam Oxfam does many things to help people. Some of the things they do are: 1) When People need help in an emergency – fast. They save lives‚ swiftly delivering aid‚ support and protection; and they help communities develop the capacity to cope with future crises. 2) They help Poor people take control‚ solve their own problems‚ and rely on themselves – with the right support. They fund long-term work to fight poverty in thousands of communities worldwide. 3) They campaign to get
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undertake more research into child poverty and to end the different levels of benefits for refugees and Danish citizens (Red Barnet 2003). Secondly‚ in January 2008‚ I was working for Muslim Aid when it agreed to organise a joint sponsored walk for Oxfam and Muslim Aid supporters during Ramadan in aid of the global food crisis. It was made quite clear that the reason they were interested in work with Muslim Aid was that they needed to create a greater diversity in their support base in order for their
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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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Assess the importance of social entrepreneurship in the local context. 1.0 Definition of Social Entrepreneurship A social entrepreneur identifies and solves social problems on a large scale. Just as business entrepreneurs create and transform whole industries‚ social entrepreneurs act as the change agents for society‚ seizing opportunities others miss in order to improve systems‚ invent and disseminate new approaches and advance sustainable solutions that create social value. Unlike traditional
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