About Nike Case 6.1: How to Make Money (D) – Near Automatic Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman started their company with a vision of serving the athlete. That vision was shared by their first employees‚ who were committed to the company but who needed more detailed directions: They needed to know what was appropriate and what wasn’t when it came to conducting company activities. Knight responded by issuing a list of guiding principles at a crucial time in the company’s history. It was 1977‚ and the
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Background information: Iconography Explanation Nike Heritage NIKE‚ pronounced NI-KEY‚ is the winged goddess of victory according to Greek mythology. He sat next to Zeus‚ king of the Olympian pantheon‚ in Olympus. A mystical presence‚ symbolizing victorious encounters‚ NIKE presided first battle in history. A Greek saying: "When we go to battle and win‚ we say it is NIKE." Synonymous with honored conquest‚ NIKE is the twentieth century footwear that lifts the world ’s greatest athletes to new levels
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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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Positioning and Segmentation A market is a group of buyers who have the opportunity to purchase‚ with the willingness and ability to buy a product or products. The family 4x4 car market is an example of a business market‚ in particular subdivided into a producer market title. Within this business market‚ market segments occur as the subgroups within the producer market of family 4x4 cars have very similar characteristics. The producers of these cars have a similar target market‚ whereby they identify
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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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P’=D1/ (KE’-g) =1.06*(1+8%)/(8.21%-8%)=$545 In Nike’s case‚ when Joanna Cohen calculated the WACC of Nike‚ she made several mistakes and led to a wrong estimate of the cost of capital. The first mistake comes to the book value of equity used in calculating WD. Nike became a publicly traded company since December 2‚ 1980‚ the share price has changed significantly during 20-year’s time. So‚ the market value of equity should be used instead of book value. Then‚ Cohen calculates the cost of debt by taking
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NorthPoint Large Cap Fund‚ a mutual fund management firm‚ deciding whether to buy Nike’s Stock Nike’s net income has fallen from $800 million to $580 million since 1997. Also its profit and market share have declines significantly from 48% to 42% (Shoe products market share) from 1997 to 2000 To counter this down fall Nike has decided to develop more athletic shoe products in mid-priced segment and also to push their apparel line. It has also decided to cut down expenses Analyst reactions are mixed –
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Products‚ Positioning‚ and Market Segmentation Thorson‚ Esther (Ed). 1989. Advertising Age: The Principles of Advertising at Word. Lincolnwood‚ IL: NTC Business Books. Advertising professionals realize that the heart of any campaign is the product and the position it holds in people’s minds. Products and their brand names are newsmakers themselves. Wendy’s hamburgers‚ Apple computers‚ and California raisins (particularly when they sing and dance) are objects of our attention and interest
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RESEARCH PROJECT – ACCOUNTING II 1. Nike‚ Inc. 2. Nike world headquarters location One Bowerman Drive Beaverton‚ Oregon 97005-6453 3. In 1950‚ before there was the Swoosh‚ before there was Nike‚ there were two visionary men who pioneered a revolution in athletic footwear that redefined the industry. Bill Bowerman who was constantly seeking ways to give his athletes a competitive advantage. and Phil Knight was a talented middle-distance runner from Portland
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Name Institution: Course: Date: Financial Statement Analysis for Nike Nike Corporation released its financial statement for the year ended May 2014. Nike Inc. is a sports apparel manufacturing firm with diverse interests all over the world. The financial statements suggest a strong company whose stocks are not undervalued‚ but with the potential of exploding higher having shown sustained strengths when the Europe‚ American‚ and Chinese economies were at the brink of disaster. Despite sustaining fluctuations
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