Nike Inc. Prepared by: Chuck Viasi MBA 330 - Innovation and Technology Management August 11‚ 2012 ------------------------------------------------- Executive Summary Nike‚ Inc. is a globally-recognized athletic sports apparel company with strong brand loyalty. The foundations of Nike’s success today were established by its Co-Founders Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman in 1972. As an athlete and a coach‚ their relentless pursuit of improved athletic performance instilled a competitive spirit
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strategies that Nike has created in tandem with the Football World Cup. The report examines the performance of Nike in relation with the Football World Cup and also tried to find out whether there were any alternatives to get an even better result. In this report I also compared Nike with its closest competitor‚ Adidas and evaluated the critical differences between these two organizations based on the marketing strategies that they have adopted to become successful. 1. Introduction Nike is the leading
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assumptions were based on the company’s current situation and some external factors that we thought might influence the stock prices for an up- or down-move. The following are the stocks we used for the different spreads: Starbucks - Bear spread Nike - Bull spread Pfizer - Butterfly‚ Straddle & Strangle For Starbucks we bet on down-move from the stock‚ which at that time (March 11th) had a 4-month average price of $75.23 and a current price of $75.03. We built a Bear Put Spread with
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NIKE INC. 1. HISTORY 1960s Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight founded Nike Inc. as Blue Ribbon Sports with a handshake and only $1‚000 in capital in 1964. The partners first began their relationship at the University of Oregon where Bowerman was Knight’s track and field coach. While attending Stanford University‚ Knight wrote a paper about breaking Germany’s domination of the U.S. domestic athletic shoe industry by distributing low-cost‚ high-quality Japanese athletic shoes to American consumers.
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Oregon track coach and co-founder of Nike Bill Bowerman once said: “If you have a body‚ you are an athlete!” (Nike Inc.‚ n.d.) It is this way of thinking that describes the root of Nike’s approach to marketing. Every person is a potential athlete or “consumer”. This is a common thinking in the realm of athletics but when Bill Bowerman said this‚ it was in direct reference to the shoe industry. From their marketing strategies to their selling philosophies‚ Nike has developed one of the most recognizable
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Nike CSR Corporate social responsibility can be defined as the "economic‚ legal‚ ethical‚ and discretionary expectations that society has of organisations at a given point in time" (Carroll and Buchholtz 2003‚ p. 36). The concept of corporate social responsibility means that organizations have moral‚ ethical‚ and philanthropic responsibilities in addition to their responsibilities to earn a fair return for investors and comply with the law. A traditional view of the corporation suggests that its
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success in Asia? R= because relationships in government E) Read the article and answer these questions 1.-What objective does AIG have in china? Increase the share 2.-What does Mr Greenberg see as his role in the company? As a employee 3.- Why in Asia important to AIG? The respect and valuies F) Find three verbs in the article which combine with the noun relationships to mean develop. Build Turning Success G) Find phrases (adjective and noun) in the article which mean the following
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1990’s Nike started facing criticism after several articles were released showing the poor labor conditions of its workers in sweatshops in places like China‚ Japan‚ and other Asian countries. As early as 1993 reports started being released about the poor working conditions. One such report was a CBS exposé by Roberta Baskin describing the working conditions of the Indonesian women working in the factories‚ explaining that they were making only $1.30 a day. During the report she criticized Nike and
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Nike was founded in 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports by University of Oregon track athlete Philip Knight and his coach Bill Bowerman‚ and officially became Nike‚ Inc. in 1978. The company takes its name from Nike‚ the Greek goddess of victory‚ and adopted the well-known logo‚ called the “Swoosh”‚ first used by Nike in 1971. Nike produces a wide range of sports equipments. Their first products were track running shoes‚ for a wide range of sports including track & field‚ tennis‚ baseball‚ Association
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LO3: Identify and analyse the individual elements of the extended marketing mix LO4: Apply the extended marketing mix to different marketing segments and contexts Context The purpose of this report is to apply your knowledge of marketing to Nike (a well known sports retailer). Your report should explain the concepts of marketing and illustrate segmentation‚ targeting and positioning using one of their products. Finally‚ you will analyse their marketing and devise a marketing mix for one
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