valuable resource for Nike. Cutting costs by employing workers at a reduced rate or paying less for plant operation allows Nike to invest the additional profits into other areas of the business such as advertising‚ thereby increasing the potential for company growth. In addition‚ decreased operational costs are more likely to attract and retain company investors because more money can go into increasing business profitability. Increases Competitiveness * Because Nike is able to more efficiently
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Research TNC’s Nike Research Manufacturing Nike has contracted with more than 700 shops around the world and has offices located in 45 countries outside the United States.[38] Most of the factories are located in Asia‚ including Indonesia‚ China‚ Taiwan‚ India‚[39] Thailand‚ Vietnam‚ Pakistan‚ Philippines‚ and Malaysia.[40] Nike is hesitant to disclose information about the contract companies it works with. However‚ due to harsh criticism from some organizations like CorpWatch‚ Nike has disclosed
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(13% today w/ first clean slate in FY14)‚ international presence (step-back before forward)‚ and square footage growth opportunity at Outlets as leases (typically 5 year) come due. In other words‚ growing pains. Boss also started coverage of Nike Inc. (NKE)‚ giving the company a Hold rating and a $100 price target‚ a touch above today’s $99 share price. He touts Nike’s best-in-class position in its category and also points favorably to its balance sheet: With annual free cash flow generation
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Nike is an American multinational corporation that is engaged in the design‚ development and worldwide marketing and selling of footwear‚ apparel‚ equipment‚ accessories and services. The company is headquartered near Beaverton‚ Oregon‚ in the Portland metropolitan area. It is the world’s leading supplier of athletic shoes and apparel[3] and a major manufacturer of sports equipment‚ with revenue in excess of US$24.1 billion in its fiscal year 2012. The company was founded on January 25‚ 1964 as Blue
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Case study: Nike: the Sweatshop Debate 1) Should Nike be held responsible for working condition in factories that it does not own‚ but where sub-contractors make products for Nike? Nike doesn’t own any manufacturing facilities and outsource its production. Therefore‚ it can’t be directly blamed for terrible working conditions. Nike can influence indirectly on working conditions at contracting factories thorough refusing to work with sweatshop factories. However‚ Nike‚ like any other capitalistic
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CASE STUDY Q1. What could Nike as a particular Company do to ensure that their associate contract manufacturers‚ all over the world comply with minimum standards of corporate governance in their factories‚ even before they were engaged? Ans1. Nike company should deliver a legal enviironment to the manufacturing factories with which the company is carrying out its contaracts all over the world inorder to support these factories to be able to encourage the ecnomic activity all over the world which
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In the case study Nike: Managing Ethical Missteps and Seizing Opportunity‚ we explore the story of Nike: the world’s leading seller of athletic wear. As some may know and others may not‚ Nike was actually started (similar to FedEx by Fred Smith) from a college paper by Phil Knight which conceptualized importing athletic shoes from Japan into the United States. In 1964‚ Knight teamed up with a colleague and launched Blue Ribbon Sports‚ a distributor of Japanese athletic shoes which also marketed its
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people hear the name Nike they think of great footwear‚ quality apparel and top of the line athletic merchandise. People wear the Nike swooshes with pride‚ thinking what they are wearing will improve their own personal athletic goals‚ or simply boost their self-confidence. People also purchase the Nike brand because they relate it with so many of the athletes who Nike endorses. People like LeBron James‚ Tiger Woods‚ Maria Sharapova‚ and Michael Jordan. These athletes wearing the Nike sign‚ was what really
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The mission statement of Nike is to bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete in the world. Planning is to select goals and ways to attain them. Nike has a strategic plan that a company needs in order to succeed at anything. The manger is taking actions in terms of strengths and opportunities. Besides‚ Nike needs to set goals and determine the best way to overcome weaknesses and threats for the company. The strengths for the Nike’s company will be strong at research and development and it
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Critical Analysis of Nike History Nike began as Phil Knight’s semester-long project to develop a small business‚ which included a marketing plan. This project was part of Phil Knight’s MBA course at Stanford University in the early 1960s. Phil Knight had been a runner at the University of Oregon in the late 1950s. His idea for his project was to develop high quality running shoes. He thought that high quality/low cost products could be produced in Japan and then shipped to the United
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