Nike vs. Reebok Questions 1. "The success of Nike was strictly fortuitous and had little to do with great decision making." Evaluate this statement. The important part of the success was due to the far-sight of Nike’s management team. Nike’s CEO‚ who was a marathoner and knew what runners wanted for their shoes‚ had made a very basic strategy work; "make the products that fit their consumers’ needs". Examples of great decision making are: Diversifying products (into sports wears and others)
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REEBOK & LA GEAR 1. Compute financial ratios using the guidelines provided below. Use the component ratios of return on equity to explain the reasons for the difference in the profitability across the two firms. In other words‚ is profit margin‚ asset turnover or/and financial leverage responsible for the difference in profitability? Comment on the riskiness of the two companies based on the financial ratios. I would like you to compute the ratios for 1988‚ 1989 and 1990. Data to compute the
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Introduction On August 03‚ 2005‚ Adidas-Salomon AG (Adidas)‚ Germany’s largest sporting goods maker announced acquisition of the US-based Reebok International Limited (Reebok) for $3.8 billion. The share prices of both the companies recorded an increase on the day of the announcement of the deal. The share price of Adidas increased by 7.4% from €147.52 on August 02‚ 2005 to €158.45 on August 03‚ 2005 on the Frankfurt stock exchange‚ while Reebok’s share price at the New York Stock Exchange rose
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the US market‚ Adidas had acquired Reebok International Ltd. under its empire (Dogiamis & Vijayashanker‚ 2009). Today‚ Adidas continues its rich heritage of harnessing technology to make some of the best shoes (Dogiamis & Vijayashanker‚ 2009). The issue that is discussed later in this paper would be of how Adidas had positioned its product in the market. 2.0 Segmentation‚ Targeting and Positioning The process of segmentation‚ targeting and positioning is shown figure 1 below. Segmentation
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countries. That way Nike can increase brand recognition. - Expanding their other products rather than footwear. Nike should promote their other products as they promote footwear. - Promote more social awareness with the Nike foundation. Nike should promote more campaigns to stop hunger and poverty. 4. Threats - Strong competition from Adidas‚ Reebok and Puma. - Accusations of poor work conditions. - The increase of counterfeit products in overseas markets. Reebok Swot Analysis. 1. Strengths
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* Reebok went to pursue three multiproduct umbrella campaigns a. Television advertising during the 1988 Summer Olympics b. Television and print advertising with the tagline “Reeboks Let U.B.U.” c. Print advertising to introduce Reebok’s new performance feature‚ the Energy Return System * Didn’t know how involved it should be with Human Rights Now! World concert tour with Amnesty International * A lot of growth from 1982 and 1987‚ which resulted from… a. Broadening of existing
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MARKETING PROJECT ON HONDA SIEL CARS INDIA LTD. (HSCI) Submitted by: AKASH CHAUDHARY (12DM013) ASHISH SHAH (12DM038) DHRUV NIGAM (12DM049) GAURAV MUTEJA (12DM052) ISHAAN SHARMA (12DM056)
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faced‚ a decision or action taken by an individual manager or by an organization at the strategic‚ functional or operational level Mortein Vaporizer: What lies beneath Brand Positioning? Debasis Pradhan and Divya Agrawal H ari Panda‚ the brand manager of Mortein Vaporizer‚ could not keep his mind off the challenges faced by his brand even during an official gathering of colleagues at the Golf ground in Bhubaneswar. He detached himself from the group and went for a quiet stroll as others were busy
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Assignment #2 - Field Trip / Marketing Positioning & Differentiation Lynn Xia January 21‚ 2014 ! ! Analysis on Trader Joe’s Trader Joe’s is a privately held chain of specialty grocery stores headquartered in Monrovia‚ California in Greater Los Angeles. When asked about the target market‚ the founder Joe Coulombe said at the time‚ and again in 1988 when he sold the chain to the Albrecht family‚ that Trader Joe’s aimed for "the educated customer.”1 The person who dips into the health
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POSITIONING STRATEGIES Positioning refers to creating a favourable image in the mind of the customers so that they perceive the product or a service to be better than that of its competitors. It is also occupying the mind‚ heart‚ body and wallet space of customers in the selected target market segment through differential advantage higher than rivals in an irreplaceable way by converting differential advantage into sustainable differential advantage. Positioning is not so much what a product
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