Parrish Flanders April 23, 2013
Professor Faerber

Nike is considered to be one of the largest American suppliers of athletic shoes, apparel, and sports equipment. At the same time, this company and its brand are well-known worldwide. To a significant extent, this is the result of the strategy of the international markets expansion that is one of the main directions of the strategic development of the company. Obviously, this strategy provides the company to enter new markets and strengthen its position in traditional ones. At the present moment, the strategy of expansion is particularly important since the world economy tends to globalization and nowadays, multinational corporations, such as Nike, can hardly locate production in one country only but need to organize production in the regions which are either closer to the target market or where the production is substantially cheaper to the extent that the production in remote regions remain profitable even if the products are sold in a different part of the world. However, despite the obvious progress and recent achievements of Nike, its leading position in many national markets throughout the world, its development and expansion was accompanied not only by remarkable successes but also by some serious failures which deteriorated the position of the company in very perspective markets. This is why it is necessary to thoroughly analyze the development of Nike and its international expansion and its results in order to objectively assess the extent, to which this strategic development was successful and whether the company’s successes outweigh its failures as well as the factors that contributed to both successes and failures of Nike.

Nowadays, Nike is one of the most popular trademarks which is basically focused on the production of athletic shoes, sports equipment and apparel. The company is based