...Nike Presentation of Facts Surrounding Case Background on Football and the FIFA World Cup: Football (Commonly known as Soccer in the U.S.) was and still is the most popular sport in regards to viewership worldwide. In 2006 it was estimated that the sport of football was played by more than 265 million people, and continuing to grow (These estimates were up from 2000, estimated 42 million). Profession leagues exist throughout the world and the most popular teams were in Western Europe. The history of modern day soccer dates back to 1863, although there was early evidence of soccer being played as a sport in China between the 2nd and 3rd centuries BC. In China, it was mentioned that people dribbled leather balls by kicking it into a small net. Recorded facts also support the fact that Romans and Greeks used to play ball for fun and leisure. (Jetzen, 2013). Background of Nike: Co-founded by Phil Knight (former University of Oregon Track Athlete) and Bill Bowers, initially under the name Blue-Ribbon sports in 1962. After a business relationship ended with their overseas manufacturer, they changed the name in 1972 to what is now known as Nike. In 1975 Nike signed its “first” of many big name athletes in Steve Prefontaine. A local University of Oregon track athlete who at the time who held every known track record from the 2k to 10k meters. (Please note that ultimately, Steve Prefontaine was #1 in his sport as this has meaning throughout the case to Nike’s overall strategy). By...
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...511-060 Nike Football: World Cup 2010 South Africa Nike Football revenue had grown from $40 million in 1994 to more than $1 billion in 2008. In just under 15 years, it had reached a sales level that took some of its competitors over 50 years to achieve. Although not the end goal, the 2010 World Cup was another unique moment in time for Nike to create separation between the company and its competitors. Edwards knew he had to seize this opportunity and pull his team together to deliver a campaign focused on delivering innovative products and compelling consumer experiences. Creating deep consumer connections during the World Cup would be vital for fueling continued growth for Nike football in the years ahead. Football and the FIFA World Cup Some people believe football is a matter of life and death . . . I assure you, it is much more serious than that. — Bill Shankly, Scottish footballer and legendary Liverpool Manager1 Football was a game played between two teams of 11 players each, 10 field players and a goalkeeper per team. The game lasted 90 minutes, consisting of two 45-minute halves of running time. It was played with a round ball, on a rectangular grass field (often referred to as the “pitch”) with a goal on either end. Excluding the goalkeeper, the ball was controlled only with the feet, legs, torso and head (the use of hands or arms was prohibited) and the team scoring the most goals by the end of the game was the winner. Football was the most popular...
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...Nike: Nike produces a wide range of sports equipment. Their first products were track running shoes. They currently also make shoes, jerseys, shorts, base layers etc. for a wide range of sports including track and field, baseball, ice hockey, tennis, association football (soccer), lacrosse, basketball and cricket. Nike sells an assortment of products, including shoes and apparel for sports activities like association football,[18] basketball, running, combat sports, tennis, American football, athletics, golf and cross training for men, women, and children. Nike also sells shoes for outdoor activities such as tennis, golf, skateboarding, association football, baseball, American football, cycling, volleyball, wrestling, cheerleading, aquatic activities, auto racing and other athletic and recreational uses. Nike is well known and popular in youth culture, chav culture and hip hop culture as they supply urban fashion clothing. Adidas: Running Adidas currently manufactures several running shoes. Football (soccer) One of the main focuses of Adidas is football kit and associated equipment. Adidas also provides apparel and equipment for all teams in Major League Soccer. Adidas remain a major company in the supply of team kits for international football teams. Adidas also makes referee kits that are used in international competition and by many countries and leagues in the world. Tennis Adidas has sponsored tennis players and recently introduced a new line of tennis...
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...Nike is an American multinational corporation that is engaged in the design, development, manufacturing and worldwide marketing and sales of footwear, apparel, equipment, accessories and services for men, women, and kids worldwide. The company offers products in eight categories, including running, basketball, football, men’s training, women’s training, sportswear, action sports, and golf under the NIKE and Jordan brand names. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, in the Portland metropolitan area. It is one of the world's largest suppliers of athletic shoes and apparel and a major manufacturer of sports equipment, with revenue in excess of US$30.6 billion in its fiscal year 2015 which ended on May 31, 2015. Nike now has 62,600 employees all over the world. In 2014 the brand alone was valued at $19 billion, making it the most valuable brand among sports businesses. The company was founded on January 25, 1964, as Blue Ribbon Sports, by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight, and officially became Nike on May 30, 1971. The company takes its name from Nike, which means the Greek goddess of victory. Nike markets its products under its own brand, as well as Nike Golf, Nike Pro, Nike+, Air Jordan, Nike Blazers, Air Force 1, Nike Dunk, Air Max, Foamposite, Nike Skateboarding, and subsidiaries including Brand Jordan, Hurley International and Converse. In addition to manufacturing sportswear and equipment, the company operates retail stores under the Niketown name. Nike sponsors...
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...Mekyas Moges 11/18/2013 Sports Marketing Professor Master. Nike World Cup 1. Discuss the factors that have resulted in Nike Football becoming over a $1 Billion division and a major force in the football market. The Nike football brand believed that the only way to seize any kind of opportunity for growth is to first have a product that speaks for itself. Therefore, Nike believed that footwear product innovation should have the most focus. Nike had four steps to product innovation, development, design, marketing and most importantly, testing. The company spent hundreds of millions of dollars to create the right products that the athletes could preform well on. The fact that the 2006 world cup final between France and Italy, an Adidas and Puma team respectively, had 12 of the 22 starts still wearing a Nike shoe is a testament to the quality of the Nike products. Once Nike became a proven brand. It needed to find ways of reaching fans in unconventional ways because the Advertising rights were already bought out from Adidas. But, Nike saw how international players from South America and Asia were moving to European leagues and the game was about to transform from a “scoring matters” culture, to a “getting past your man is just a good” culture. This played well with Nike’s sponsorship with the Brazilian National team who were well known for their stylish way of playing football. Nike piggybacked this niche in the market to bring a new edge of football that promoted individual...
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...marketing ,internship in a sports firm was done. Internship in a firm named ‘Freewill sports pvt ltd’ located in Jalandhar was done. The report begins with an introduction of the sports industry in India followed by the introduction of the firm ‘NIVIA’. After which we head towards the concepts of online marketing followed by the nivia product range, organizational structure An online comparison of the Nivia footballs to other brands with reference to Flipkart is done. After the comparison of the footballs the analysis and interpretation is done for...
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...Shadow Introduction “Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.” (Gloves, S. 2012) This much quoted comment of the former, British football manager Bill Shankly describes exactly my view of football. I am a big fan of the most popular sport in the world. Sure I know that this comment is exaggerated, but football becomes more and more important. Not only for the fans and the sportsmen, also for the global economy. (Hamil, S. and Chadwick, S. 2010) In professional football the success goes hand in hand with money. Today it is almost impossible to win a big trophy like the UEFA Championsleague without investing lots of money. The FC Barcelona is ranked as the best team in the world and invested in the last five years an average of 40 Million Euros per annum in new players. (Transfermarkt 2011) But where does all that money come from? According to Uli Hoeneß, the president of German football club FC Bayern Munich, only 15% of the twelve million DMs (6.1 Million Euros) revenue were out of broadcasting, marketing and sponsoring when he began in 1979 his career as a manager. (RP online 2011) His aim was to make his club independent from earnings from the spectators. As you can see in the following diagram he achieved his aim. In the year 2010 Bayern’s matchday earnings were only 21% of the total revenue. The biggest part is now coming from the commercial with 53%. (Sports Business Group 2011) Bayern Munich: Revenue...
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...management situation. The case was compiled from published sources. Company Background Under Armour (UA) was founded in 1996 by Kevin Plank, a former Maryland football player, who began by selling compression clothing that could “wick” sweat away from the body to college sports teams out of the trunk of his car. Plank was a football player at the University of Maryland, and hated wearing cotton shirts to practice in the hot, humid Maryland climate. Knowing that he would never be an NFL player, Plank devoted his efforts to starting a company that could make a product that would be an improvement over cotton, in that it would not absorb sweat and be much more functional and comfortable to wear. Once made, he started selling the shirts to the lacrosse and football teams at the University of Maryland out of the trunk of his car. In 1998, the football oriented movie “Any Given Sunday” was being filmed in Baltimore where Under Armour is based. The producers of the movie were looking for a product that would represent the athletic nature of the movie and be comfortable to wear during filming. Under Armour agreed to provide products, and UA shirts were used throughout the filming and appeared in the movie itself, resulting in national exposure for the brand. At about the same time, ESPN was initiating a sports magazine and looking for advertisers. Plank called in his dozen or so employees at the...
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...comparing the strategies of two companies from the same industry. The strategies of Nike and Adidas have been compared from the textile industry. Nike and Adidas both specialize in footwear, apparel and accessories and their competition is intense as Nike is the market leader and Adidas is the market challenger. The topics in this assignment cover critical incidents of both Nike and Adidas that occurred in the past and the comparison between both their strategies as well their future plans. This assignment shows us the influence the strategy has on the success or failure of companies and how companies craft sustainable strategies that help them to retain their position in the market. Table of Contents Page 1.0 Introduction 1 2.0 Literature review 1 3.0 Backgrounds of Nike and Adidas 2 3.1 Company overview of Nike 2 3.2 Company overview of Adidas 2 4.0 Critical Incidents that occurred in the past 3 4.1 Critical incidents that affected Nike 3 4.2 Critical incidents that affected Adidas 5 5.0 Comparison of the strategies of the companies 8 5.1 Strategies of Nike 8 5.2 Strategies of Adidas 9 5.3 Comparison of the strategies of Nike and Adidas 11 6.0 Future plans of Nike and Adidas 13 7.0 Conclusion 14 8...
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...1. INDUSTRY BACKGROUND The term footwear covers a vast range of products made from many different materials. Boots, shoes, sandals, slippers and clogs are made wholly or partly of rubber, synthetic and plastics materials, canvas, rope and wood. In fact, in 2007, rubber and plastics footwear made up 53% of the pie whereas leather footwear accounted for 14% only with the remaining 33% of the footwear made of textile and other types of materials. In recent years, the footwear industry has become highly globalised, with competition from countries with lower labor costs and less regulated working conditions forcing footwear manufacturers to look at restructuring and re-locating their facilities. As the World population increases and living standards improve, the demand for footwear has shot up rapidly. Over the last decade and a half, Asian countries have emerged as the most powerful destination for footwear production, with established names in the US and Europe economies having shifted their facilities (partly and wholly) to Asian countries. GLOBAL CONSUMPTION OVER 10 YEARS CONSUMPTION(MILLION OF PAIRS) | 1998 | 2000 | 2002 | 2004 | 2008 | ASIA(ALL) | 4744 | 5222 | 5474 | 5840 | 6528 | AMERICAS | 3011 | 3274 | 3279 | 3433 | 3611 | EUROPE | 2239 | 2396 | 2544 | 2717 | 2886 | REST OF THE WORLD | 1086 | 1187 | 1172 | 1317 | 1399 | TOTAL | 11080 | 12079 | 12469 | 13307 | 14424 | 2. THE INDIAN OUTLOOK The...
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...day by lying in a large Simmons bed… My family is a regular waged family in China. 20 years ago when I was born, the family didn’t rich enough to have any product made by international manufacturers. 20 years passed, with the social development, people’s living standard is improving. International manufacturers’ products and their influence are showed in my family’s daily life. I will use sport brands as an example, to figure out how the international manufacturers’ marketing programs and activities change the life of me and my family. In recent years, with the increase of residents’ economic capacity and concept of consumption, the sales in China and the proportion of sales in China and the total turnovers of two giant international sport brands, Nike and Adidas, growing continuously. Every year, the two giants launched advertising campaign and they put more than 100 kind new products to Chinese market. On the other side, after 2007, with more and more Chinese basketball player near NBA and the downturn of Chinese football, basketball gradually replaced football and became the No.1 sport among teenagers. A group brands who use basketball equipments as the...
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...Spring 2010 Team Members: Echo, Leslie, Helen, Aquarius, Tony Company Name: NIKE, INC. Spring 2010 Spring 2010 Team Members: Echo, Leslie, Helen, Aquarius, Tony Company Name: NIKE, INC. Spring 2010 Major Editors: Echo and Leslie Arranged by: Echo Revised by: Leslie and Echo PPT designed by: Echo Major Editors: Echo and Leslie Arranged by: Echo Revised by: Leslie and Echo PPT designed by: Echo Instructor’s Name: Nell Walker Instructor’s Name: Nell Walker NIKE, INC. NIKE, INC. BADM 180 - Final Product BADM 180 - Final Product Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Overview 4 Situation Analysis 6 -Management Analysis 6 -Marketing Analysis 8 -Financials 10 -Summary 15 Works Cited 17 Appendix 37 -Quick Questions 37 -Drafts 38 -Internet Research 46 -Annual Report 47 Executive Summary NIKE, Inc. is the largest seller of athletic footwear and apparel in the world. We employ more than 33,000 people globally, including more than 5,500 at our worldwide headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. We sell products in more than 180 countries around the globe. Nike brand designs and sells products in three main product lines — footwear, apparel and equipment. The products are manufactured in approximately...
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...Nike has been around much longer than most would think and continues to be the leading trend setter in athletic wear. Nike was started in January of 1964. The athletic company began as just a small clothing distributing company out of the truck of Phil Knight’s, owner and CEO of Nikes, Car. The Saying you started from the bottom is very true when it comes to Nike who now leads in sales of all athletic gear compared to Adidas who at the time of 1964 was the most popular athletic company. From starting in a truck of a car no one would suspect that this company would not only be defined as the definition of ‘cool’ when purchasing clothing and shoes from stores all over the United States but yet the brand that carries our pop culture. Nike started...
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...UNDER ARMOUR: CASE ANALYSIS Under Armour is a company based in the United States, best known for its introduction of form-fitting, moisture-wicking clothing designed to be worn under sportswear. Founder Kevin Plank was a football player with the University of Maryland who got tired of having to change out of the sweat-soaked T-shirts he wore under his jersey. This was the inspiration to make a T-shirt using moisture-wicking fabric for athletic performance. The company is a supplier of a much wider range of sportswear and casual apparel. After creating and improving his first product he sold it to his first football team, Georgia Tech. After this the company expanded to include many NCAA football teams, several NFL teams and is starting to leak into other sports and other markets around the world. In 2008 it expanded with the footwear and accessory product lines. Under Armour’s current mission, vision and values provide direction both operationally and strategically for the company. Under Armour’s strategy is to outperforming its competitors and achieving superior profitability through actions to gain sales and market share via more performance features, more appealing design, better quality or wider product selection. The goal is to achieve the competitive on the basis of differentiation features, such as higher quality, wider product selection, and added performance, value added services, more attractive styling, and technological superiority. The Under Armour brand is positioned...
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...University of Maryland football player. The band has under gone rapid expansion and popularity throughout the world today being that it all started in a basement. It has taken over the performance workout apparel market in the United States and worldwide, over the years it has began to outsell another well known sporting apparel such as Nike and Addidas. Under Armour Inc. has even expanded its market way beyond performance apparel line and brings products such as footwear and casual wear also workout wear. The company has prided itself on maintaining a competitive advantage by always having top-notch products and adopting new ideas to outcompete...
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