Marseille football team. In 1997‚ Adidas AG acquired the Salomon Group‚ and its corporate name was changed to Adidas-Salomon AG. Seven years later‚ top English fashion designer Stella McCartney launched a joint-venture line with Adidas. This line was a sports performance collection for women called "Adidas by Stella McCartney". After 2 years‚ Adidas introduced the Adidas 1‚ the first ever production shoe to utilize a microprocessor. In August 2005‚ Adidas bought rival Reebok. At the same time sales
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Title: Alexander Wang kidswear Name: Zsuzsanna Torok (TOR10310643) Unit: Product Development & Sourcing Date: 11/3/2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 2 Executive summary Page 2 1. Introduction Page 2 2. Findings Page 2 2.1. Company profile Page 2 2.2. Customer profile Page 3 2.2.1. Consumer moodboard Page 4 2.3. Market positioning Page 4 2.3.1. Real competitors Page 5 2.3.2. Kidswear competitors Page 6 2.3.3. Accessibility versus Exclusivity Page 7 2.4. Price points Page 9 2
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E-commerce is limited to USA • The direct sale to consumers is creating conflicts with its own resellers • Online customer service not "helpful" or easy to find Opportunities • Increase female participation in athletics “Adidas by Stella McCartney” • Collaborate with other online retailers to offer Adidas products • Possibility of outsourcing the web development and e-commerce to a third party developer Threats • Nike’s strong reputation in the footwear and apparel industry
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How Many Brands Put Green Before Profits? Can an eco-friendly product also be in vogue? This has been the question that designers are still intensively focusing on. And most-known labels are already woking on the issue via the green business management. (pic1) But how many of them do spend how much eco-effort on the issue? Do they put green totally before profits? If it is unfortunately kind of an utopic idea at least for now; at which rate do they contribute? Let’s examine the brands one by one
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SWOT Analysis Strengths 1. Established brand name – this means that Adidas has already built up a good reputation and it has a large market share within its industry. 2. Good retail links – Adidas has established good links with shops and outlets‚ which sell Adidas’s products. 3. Established worldwide distribution network – this means that Adidas’s products are shipped to a large number of countries. 4. Famous sports stars advertising products – Adidas has a series of football superstars
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Kate Moss. What comes to mind when you hear that name? Supermodel‚ Drug Taker‚ style-icon‚ mum‚ actor‚ singer or a walking billboard of what you will see every teenager around the world wearing the next week? As a matter of fact she comes under all those things. Katherine Moss born on the 16th of January‚ 1974 was the English teenager who was discovered at the age of 14 by the founder of an exclusive modeling agency in New York. Sarah Doukas as she is called spotted Moss at the JFK Airport in
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brands. 2003 Acquires 42% of Gucci Group Acquires Bouciieron Acquires Alexander McQueen Raises its stake in Gucci Group to 53.2% Acquires Yves Saint Laurent Acquires Bottega Véneta Acquires 70% of Sergio Rossi Launches Stella McCartney in a joint venture with McCartney Acquires Balenciaga 999 3000 to the corner office that had been his. He’d had everything moved over the weekend.
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Group‚ and its corporate name was changedto Adidas-Salomon AG. Seven years later‚ top English fashion designer StellaMcCartney launched a joint-venture line with Adidas. This line was a sports performance collection for women called "Adidas by Stella McCartney". After 2years‚ Adidas introduced the Adidas 1‚ the first ever production shoe to utilize amicroprocessor. In August 2005‚ Adidas bought rival Reebok. At the same time saleshad been closer to those of Nike in North America. The acquisition of
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Luxury brands during times of recession A question of survival Universally‚ luxury items are considered to be items of great prestigious value‚ and their possession has satisfied people worldwide. In the last three decades particularly‚ consumers have enjoyed a higher level of disposable income than ever before‚ and as a result luxury brands have prospered greatly. However‚ in times of economic crisis luxury brands face the challenge of having their brands perceived value becoming dangerously
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1.0 Introduction Adidas is the second largest sportswear and apparels manufacturer (Dogiamis & Vijayashanker‚ 2009). By far‚ Adidas holds a market share of 22% (Dogiamis & Vijayashanker‚ 2009). Adidas had also registered the infamous ‘3 stripes’ as its trademark (Berntson‚ Jarnemo & Philipson‚ 2006). The founders of Adidas‚ Adolf and Rudolf Dassler had the vision of providing athletes with the best suited pair of shoes for their respective sports (Dogiamis & Vijayashanker‚ 2009)
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