History of Nike Nike‚ who currently ranks as 136 in the fortune 500 for America’s largest corporations‚ has come a long way since its humble beginning of in the 1960’s. Founded by visionaries Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight who at the time had no clue how much of an impact this footwear would make in the marketing world. Bill Bowerman was a track and field coach at the University of Oregon with enormous amount of knowledge on athletics and was always looking to help his players maintain the advantage
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Introduction For this module Session Long Project I picked Nike‚ Inc as the multinational company to study. Here we will discuss the origin and history of this company and its profile. We will also cover Nike ’s international activities and how they managed to become today ’s world ’s leading supplier of athletic shoes‚ apparel and sports equipment. We will see how this company managed to expand internationally and control the sportswear arena completely by utilizing marketing strategy centering
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principles of marketing. Customers may not know what they want‚ and second-guessing them can be expensive‚ says the professor who teaches MBA and PhD marketing and consumer decision-making courses. In Simonson’s words‚ “The benefits and costs of fitting individual customer preference are more complex and less deterministic than has been assumed”. That’s because “customer preferences are often ill-defined and susceptible to various influences‚ and in many cases‚ customers have poor insight into
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BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION CASE STUDY – NIKE CSR (page 70) 1. In referring to the opening profile and the closing for this chapter‚ discuss the challenges regarding corporate social responsibility that companies in the apparel industry face in its supply chains around the world? Answer: There are 5 challenges related to CSR: a. Lack of awareness and benefit of CSR In fact‚ many of companies have little knowledge about CSR. In some cases‚ companies may have a greater understanding of CSR
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Contents Page Executive Summary 2 Nike Inc. 2 Footwear Industry 3 Analyzing a Footwear Company.................................................................3 Trends in the Footwear Industry…………………………………………4 Nike’s Strategic Enablers in Gaining Competitive Advantage 4 Marketing & Promotion…………………………………………………...4 Production & Distribution………………………………………………...5 R&D………………………………………………………………………...5 Acquisition Strategy………………………………………………………..5
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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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NIKE – INTRODUCTION : Nike‚ Inc. is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered in the Portland metropolitan area of Oregon‚ near Beaverton. It is the world ’s leading supplier of athletic shoes and apparel and a major manufacturer of sports equipment with revenue in excess of $16 billion USD in 2007. As of 2008‚ it employed over 30‚000 people world-wide. Nike and Precision Castparts are the only Fortune 500 companies headquartered
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ASSIGNMENT ONE – INDIVIDUAL 1. Challenges for business can come from internal and/or external pressures. Explain two such pressures affecting the current situation of T-Sole Ltd.(4 points ) ANSWER Internal pressure: The incentive policy with piece rate causes qualified workers to produced more and the new employee without adequate training started the work and this lead to poor quality production and lot of the footwear produced were rejected. The breaking down of equipment from time
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Nike Case Questions 1. In the United States‚ what is Nike’s: a) Brand image‚ and b) sources of brand equity? a) In the United States‚ Nike’s brand image is built on being a high-performance‚ innovative and aggressive brand. The company associates the brand with top athletes through sponsorships. Since inception‚ Nike has placed performance as a top priority for the brand. Through designing high performance shoes and apparel‚ as well as sponsoring high-profile athletes and teams the brand
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Marketing Excellence / Nike Question 1: What are the pros‚ cons and risks associated with Nike’s core marketing strategy ? We can evaluate Nike’s core marketing strategy as related them to the relevant marketing theories. First of them is distribution theory. Nike distributes its products on different level basis. The high quality products are given to a certain distributers while the low price to be sold at highly discounted price at the retail stores such as Wal-Mart. Nike has also become the leader
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