...INTRODUCTION Founded as an importer of Japanese shoes, NIKE, Inc. (Nike) has grown to be the world's largest marketer of athletic footwear and apparel. In the United States, Nike products are sold through about 20,000 retail accounts; worldwide, the company's products are sold in about 110 countries. Both domestically and overseas Nike operates retail stores, including NikeTowns and factory outlets. Nearly all of the items are manufactured by independent contractors, primarily located overseas, with Nike involved in the design, development, and marketing. In addition to its wide range of core athletic shoes and apparel, the company also sells Nike and Bauer brand athletic equipment, Cole Haan brand dress and casual footwear, and the Sports Specialties line of headwear featuring licensing team logos. The company has relied on consistent innovation in the design of its products and heavy promotion to fuel its growth in both U.S. and foreign markets. The ubiquitous presence of the Nike brand and its Swoosh trademark led to a backlash against the company by the late 20th century, particularly in relation to allegations of low wages and poor working conditions at the company's Asian contract manufacturers. Key Dates: 1962: Philip H. Knight founds Blue Ribbon Sports (BRS) to import Japanese running shoes. 1963: BRS takes its first delivery of 200 shoes from Onitsuka Tiger Co. 1964: BRS becomes partnership between Knight and William Bowerman. 1966: The company's first retail...
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...Nike Inc. Nike’s Unethical Business Practices Nike’s Unethical Business Practices Love those Nike shoes your wearing? Have you ever thought how they were made, who made them, and at what price they were made at? I bet you probably don’t. I bet that you see those Nike shoes at the store, and think to yourself, “oh I like those shoes, I have to have them,” and then buy them. What you don’t know is that those pair of shoes you just bought were probably made in a third world factory by employees who are probably working in harsh working conditions. These factories are not owned and operated by Nike, but contracted by Nike. Nike chooses to locate the majority of their production in such countries because of the abundance of cheap labor. Nike contracts factories around the world in effort to get the best product for the cheapest price made, without concern for contracted factory employee. Nike has not been concerned about what goes on in these factories only that the product is made, because Nike is not in the business for Human Rights, they’re in the business of athletic shoes sales. The Ethical Dilemma Nike has been accused with human rights violations. The charges that were made against Nike include the following: the use of child labor in factories, unsafe working conditions including exposure to toxic chemicals and the use of machinery without the proper safety precautions, pay below minimum wage and forced overtime hours. The contracted factories Nike uses to produce...
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...Part A: Company Overview Our companies name is Nike. The company helps athletes to use their full potential by offering a variety of sporting goods. Nike was founded by Bill Bowerman in 1972 and offers sporting equipment, clothes, and personal care items for all ages and genders. Nikes mission statement is: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete in the world. Nike serves more than 160 countries on the globe, and is located in six continents. Nike is seen in every sport, their core competencies is the well known name of the company. Nike draws consumer attention by bringing their favorite athletes into commercials, and even offering the athletes own line. Tiger Woods, and Lebron James are just two of the many famous athletes who have endorsement deals with Nike. Consumers like seeing familiar faces wear, or use the product. Nike is seen everywhere in the sporting world, and you could say it is the biggest name in sports, and offers great product. Also, Nike allows the customer to personalize anything they buy with the new Nike ID program. People can literally put their name and sporting number on their shoes. Nike also offers the running shoes which tell you how much you have ran and how many calories you have burned through a little micro chip program installed in the shoe. So, Nikes main competitive advantage would be the offerings on shoes like these. Nike is great at marketing and designing these shoes. They look at what their consumers need, in vision a product...
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...internationally accepted health standards. • Forced labor was abolished and a maximum limit on working hours was introduced. • Similarly, the company discouraged engaging the services of children below a specific age for work in the factories. • It is Nike’s ethical responsibilities to address the situation and take the best affords it can to stop the sweatshop labor practice. • Nike should bear responsibility all the way down the pipeline for everything that goes into the production of its sneaker. • Although the production was subcontracted to independently owned factories and the workers were not Nike employees, but indirectly its still have the responsibility because of the workers contribution to the company. • I believed that the company could enforce ethical work culture if it so desired. 3. Nike has expanded its product line well beyond the original running shoes. It now includes models for virtually every type of sport or physical activity. Visit the Nike web site (http://www.nike.com) for a complete listing of the models it sells. Moreover, Nike continually introduces new models—on average Nike introduces a new shoe style every single day of the year. Discuss the pros and cons of this continual churn of new attributes and new products. How do think consumers react to this? From the late 80s on through the early 21st century, much of the competition in...
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...Introduction Former University of 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 and demanded names and logo ever. Nike, which is the name of the Greek Goddess of Victory, was born in 1972 when Blue Ribbon Sports (BRS) launched its first branded shoe at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials. A former University of Oregon track team member Phil Knight created Blue Ribbon Sports. At Oregon, Knight was coached by the legendary Bill Bowerman and then went on to become alumnus of the Stanford School of Business. BRS was crafted in 1962 when Knight made a deal with Onitsuka Tiger Company, a Japanese shoe company, to import their shoes to the United States. Knight had the idea to sell a low cost shoe with a very high quality, with high aspirations of taking Adidas out of the top spot in the athletic shoe market. In 1964, Bill Bowerman decided to join Knight as a partner at BRS to create a joint quest to be number one. Bowerman redesigned the Tiger shoes while Knight acted as the accountant/personal seller and the two went on...
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...Supply & Demand Paper Economics How this whole world runs is based on the economics from country to country. Economics is the cause and effect of everything from; unemployment, bankruptcies, corporations going under, individual consumers, and the list goes on and on. Every aspect of business and society is related to economics. With economics lie 3 central problems: what to produce and how much, how to produce it, and who do you produce it for. In our society, especially in the United States, we have one of the strongest economies in the world. In the past year or so, America’s economy has started to slip. For example, it kind of started with the bailouts of the major banks in the U.S. The major banks started to fall and fall fast. The banking system is a huge factor of our economy and business. It is where our money comes from really. Real Estate loans, Business loans, Stock Market, etc. The major banks hold our economy together. This is why some think it was necessary to bail these banks out and put America further into an unimaginable deficit. Economics is a broad study of supply and demand. Law of Supply The law of supply is a simple concept. It is based off the expectation of profits and substitution when needed. It states that as the prices rise of a good let’s say, the supplied quantity is going to rise as well. According to Investopedia-Forbes Digital Company (2009) that the law of supply is, “a microeconomic law stating that, all other factors being equal...
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...Nike Inc. Nike’s Unethical Business Practices Nike’s Unethical Business Practices Love those Nike shoes your wearing? Have you ever thought how they were made, who made them, and at what price they were made at? I bet you probably don’t. I bet that you see those Nike shoes at the store, and think to yourself, “oh I like those shoes, I have to have them,” and then buy them. What you don’t know is that those pair of shoes you just bought were probably made in a third world factory by employees who are probably working in harsh working conditions. These factories are not owned and operated by Nike, but contracted by Nike. Nike chooses to locate the majority of their production in such countries because of the abundance of cheap labor. Nike contracts factories around the world in effort to get the best product for the cheapest price made, without concern for contracted factory employee. Nike has not been concerned about what goes on in these factories only that the product is made, because Nike is not in the business for Human Rights, they’re in the business of athletic shoes sales. The Ethical Dilemma Nike has been accused with human rights violations. The charges that were made against Nike include the following: the use of child labor in factories, unsafe working conditions including exposure to toxic chemicals and the use of machinery without the proper safety precautions, pay below minimum wage and forced overtime hours. The contracted factories Nike uses to produce...
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...act include Nike, Reebok, Adidas, Puma, Hi-Tec, and many others. All of these companies stick to their own advertising, product development, and distribution while contracting Third World factories to produce their products. No company is paying or treating their workers better than another. This is because in an Asian factory you will see the rival brands rolling off parallel conveyor belts in the same factory. I have chosen to concentrate on Nike instead of other brands because Nike is the leader in its industry, not only in terms of market share, but in design, comfort, and advertising. Where Nike goes, other companies tend to follow. In 1984 the $5.2 billion dollar Nike Corp. closed its last U.S. factory and moved its entire production to the cheap labor in Asia. Some 65,000 Nike U.S. shoe workers lost their jobs because of the move over seas (Putnam, Internet). Making these sport shoes does benefit developing countries. It brings money, jobs, and some skills are shared. However, Nike's target is not so. As Taiwan and South Korea democratized, unions became legal, and wages began to rise, Nike immediately began to look for new undeveloped havens of low wages. New operations were set up in Indonesia, China, Vietnam, Pakistan, and Thailand. Nike now has a work force of only 8,000 employees. The 350,000 people who make their shoes in Asia (Hua, "Nike Protest Charges Abuses of Employees.") are employed by subcontractors, not Nike. In the past couple of years Nike has taken...
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...| 2015 | | Juandre oelofse BTECH Assignment brief 1 User | nike and hands off our elephants | | P1) This is a program that was started in 2013. The CEO, Paula Kahumbu, of the organization has worked hand in hand with the government to give them a valuable insight into many of the things they previously didn’t understand The Kenyan first lady Margaret Kenyatta started the program with the purpose of educating the youth and the general public about the importance of the conservation of elephants. Hands off our elephants is an organization that aims to give communities a way prevent poaching and other crimes on animals by providing an anonymous tip line. Hands off our elephants makes sure that there are new trained forces to work on the front line to deal with poaching They also help volunteers who might have interests in becoming an environmental lawyer find the right education They also host meetings and presentations where they aim at reducing the demand for ivory. The mission/vision. Hands off our elephants have a few competitors; David Sheldrick Elephant and rhino orphanage and African wildlife trust Hands off our elephants is a campaign that was started because Paula Kahumbu felt that there was a need for someone to educate the people on how to prevent poaching. Her main reason for this was because as a kid she used to live amongst the wildlife and that was a big part in her life. She feels like everyone deserved to have that opportunity...
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...Nike Marketing Plan; Phase I Eddie Chantaniyom, Lizbeth Geary, Chris Marlow, Dean Nicholson MKT/421 Marketing Stephen Oaks September 13, 2012 Nike Marketing Plan; Phase I Discussed in this reading will be the beginning phase of the marketing plan to customize and personalize Nike shoes. Discussed will be a summarization of the Nike Corporation along with a description of the new customization service being provided. In addition, this reading will also explain the overall importance of a proper marketing plan and provide critical data of a SWOT analysis to help determine product feasibility, marketing strategy, and tactics for the new service. Good intro. The largest market competitor in the world of sportswear for 2012 is Nike Inc. A company that opened the doors in 1962 by two individuals Bill Bowerman and Phillip Knight with a gentlemen handshake and became the supplier called Blue Ribbons Sports for Japanese shoe makers in Oregon later known as Nike Inc. They started selling supplies for Onitsuka Tiger, now known as ASICS, from Knight’s automobile making most of their sales at track meets. Bowerman handled the innovations for the company as Knight managed the business operations. Bowerman created the first shoe using his wife’s waffle iron, giving Nike the first ever waffle shoe. The waffle shoe helped the growth of the company position into the market, by starting their-own innovative brand of soccer shoes, called the Nike; that followed the first trademark...
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...with filling shoes at NIKE” (Fill Title) Executive Summary Nike founder Phil Knight is a successful entrepreneur. When Phil Knight was ready to step back from direct supervision, he handpicked ex-head of S.C Johnson William Perez to take over. With just 13 months as CEO, William Perez was forced out of his position and Phil Knight once again stepped in to “conquer all.” The core problem is that Phil Knight can and will not be able to find someone who can successfully fill his shoes. Contradictory to his original wishes, Knight lacked to see Perez’s new set of discipline. The problem was that Nike insiders and founder Phil Knight were resistant to any sort of change. Many Nike insiders believed that Perez did not have an intuitive sense of Nike as a brand, and disagreed with his discipline of relying on the “spreadsheet, analytical approach as opposed to having a good creative marketing sense.” (Griffin, 2010) The constraints regarding Bill Perez as CEO of Nike, was that he had to compete with the company’s managerial talent that has from this date, been mostly homegrown. Before long, Perez struggled to work effectively with numerous executives, including two Nike lifers, Mark Parker and Charlie Denson. Instead of focusing solely on the culture of Nike, the organization should focus on organizational and managerial discipline within the company. Implementing the best solution for Nike would be to create an organization that does not rely on filling the shoes of founder...
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...Marketing Audit of Nike Nike is an incorporated company that primarily carries footwear products. The Company designs, develops and markets athletic footwear, apparel, equipment and accessory products. Former CEO and Pres. Philip Knight co-founded Blue Ribbon Sports with Mr. Bill Bowerman in 1962 which officially became Nike in 1978. At first, Nike was known to distribute inexpensive, superior-quality Japanese athletic shoes to American consumers to break Germany’s domination of the domestic industry. Today, Nike Inc. manufactures and distributes athletic shoes to a global market and some 40% of sales come from athletic apparel, sports equipment, and subsidiary ventures. Nike maintains traditional and non-traditional distribution channels in more than 110 countries with primary market regions in United States, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Americas (not including the United States). Nike has some over 20,000 retailers worldwide including Nike factory stores, Nike stores, NikeTowns, Cole Haan stores, and internet-based Web sites sell Nike’s sports and leisure products. Nike is leading the sales in the athletic footwear industry with a 33% global market share. Nike Inc. achieved their current status by promoting “quality production, innovative products, and aggressive marketing” in their products. As a result, for the fiscal year end 1999, Nike’s 20,700 employees generated almost $8.8 billion in revenue worldwide. ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS ECONOMICS Have changes in the...
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...Hovhannes Zoubrigian 29 November 2013 Applying Portable Concept Nike Emotional Advertisement “Just Do It” Advertisement nowadays is the key to success in every major company, and companies are wasting so much energy and effort to make good advertisements. As we started to talk about advertisement in class recently, I went online and did some research on how companies make their advertisements, what concepts they follow that makes us buy the product that they are selling, so I came across some interesting articles and commercials on YouTube and what really got my attention was Nike’s advertisement strategy. What I noticed is that Nike follows what called “Emotional Advertising” strategy, in order to emphasis the concept I am going to explain with something that is familiar to all of us, “Disney cartoons” that all of us as kids grow up watching them. These stories use the archetype emotions to tap human universal emotions, taking The Little Mermaid as an example, it uses the classic plot of overcoming the monster, the “evil” octopus woman that always tries to steal Ariel’s voice by sabotaging her and the Ariel the “hero” is this case, always overcome her in different ways. Or in The Hercules, when Hercules tries to prove himself as a “hero” he always need some kind of “catastrophe” to overcome it in order to be the “hero”. It is always “villain” against the “hero” and Nike uses the same exact emotional branding technique of archetypes in their commercials, but with...
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...Nike Written By: Jamie Battelo Nike has three main products in footwear, appearence, and equipment . Nike founders were Bill Bowerman and Philip Knight, in 1964 known as the “Blue Ribbon sports”. That’s where Bill Bowerman and Philip Knight took a $500 pledged and purchased 300 pairs of shoes. Then Philip Knight began selling the shoes off his truck, and Bill Bowerman started to rip the shoes apart because he want to learn how they worked because he was a American track and field coach. Did you know that Philip knight ran for track in college for Bill Bownerman. Now today Nike’s headquarter is in Washington County of the United States near the Beaverton, Oregan area. That’s sitting on Six acres of land “Nike’s campus”, it has 17 main building on it. The original head-quarters officially open their door in 1990 and they have doubled in size by 2001. Nike has about 700 contract factories, in 52 countries that all manufacture all of Nike’s stuff. They have to order every 6 months at least or they lose a contract factory. Nike has more than 36,000 employees globally and 7,000 employees in the Beaverton, Oregon area. Nike products are designed for the specific sports and activities. The most popular product the more active sports “like running, basketball, footballs, etc”. Nike market their products that improves your abilities to run faster and jump higher than without Nikes and look good when being active. Most of Nike’s product targets the more active and fitness industry...
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...tudyMini-case Study: Nike’s “Just Do It” Advertising Campaign According to Nike company lore, one of the most famous and easily recognized slogans in advertising history was coined at a 1988 meeting of Nike’s ad agency Wieden and Kennedy and a group of Nike employees. Dan Weiden, speaking admiringly of Nike’s can-do attitude, reportedly said, “You Nike guys, you just do it.” The rest, as they say, is (advertising) history. After stumbling badly against archrival Reebok in the 1980s, Nike rose about as high and fast in the ‘90s as any company can. It took on a new religion of brand consciousness and broke advertising sound barriers with its indelible Swoosh, “Just Do It” slogan and deified sports figures. Nike managed the deftest of marketing tricks: to be both anti-establishment and mass market, to the tune of $9.2 billion dollars in sales in 1997. —Jolie Soloman “When Nike Goes Cold” Newsweek, March 30, 1998 The Nike brand has become so strong as to place it in the rarified air of recession-proof consumer branded giants, in the company of CocaCola, Gillette and Proctor & Gamble. Brand management is one of Nike’s many strengths. Consumers are willing to pay more for brands that they judge to be superior in quality, style and reliability. A strong brand allows its owner to expand market share, command higher prices and generate more revenue than its competitors. With its “Just Do It” campaign and strong product, Nike was able to increase its share of the domestic sport-shoe business from...
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