Globalisation NIKE – just do it Introduction Nike, Inc. is an incorporated company that designs, develops and markets worldwide athletic footwear, apparel, equipment and accessories. Nike is the biggest seller of athletic footwear and athletic apparel in the world and creates designs for men, women and children. Nike employs both traditional and non-traditional distribution channels in almost 200 countries with primary market regions in the United States, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Americas. Nike has
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About Nike, Inc. First established as Blue Ribbon Sports in 1964, Nike, Inc. changed itself to current branding in the year 1971. Nike is the number one athletic footwear and sports equipment brand in the world with over $25 billion in 2013 in revenue. Based in U.S. Nike, employees 44,000 employees worldwide. In the year 2014, Nike was valued at $19 billion for the brand alone. Nike is known for its “Just do it” slogan and “Swoosh” logo. Mission: Bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete
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05-23-11 Jana Haman Jonathan Chou Andrew Chareunsouk Brent Shannn Zenia Villa Jed Wu Target market Because Nike is such a large and globally recognized company, they offer a large variety of products and thus have many target markets. They market not only footwear but apparel, equipment, and accessory products for men, women, and children. Nike is like Coca-Cola, in the sense that they design and market their products for every possible group imaginable. The different groups
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Nike I2 ERP Implementation Failure Case Study February 9, 2014 Shafer Minnick Morgan Correll Jeff Harvey Nike stands as the World’s leading producer of Athletic Footwear, Apparel and Equipment. As of 2013 they held complete ownership or joint venture in the following companies: Nike Brand Cole Haan Converse Hurley International Umbro Athletic Wear Nike Golf Jordan Brand This is a rather long and somewhat surprising list to many, based on some of these brands are
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pressures which reduce their profit margin. Background of NIKE Company Nike Company is one of the largest retailers that involved in Malaysia’s retail sector. It involves in the athletic footwear retail industry as its primary main focus is on supplying sportswear. It is the leading retail marketer of sport apparel, athletic shoes and a major manufacturer of sporting equipments in the world. Nowadays, besides selling sportswear, Nike also involves in selling of casual and fashion footwear in order
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY NIKE INC. In an effort to become one of the world’s leading designers, marketers, and distributors of athletic footwear, apparel, equipment, and accessories, Nike Inc. started with two visionary men who transformed themselves into one of the top selling brands in the athletic shoe industry. Through taking chances and understanding customers needs, Nike Inc. has established a large market position and strong brand equity. Nike Inc. understood early in its history that
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Sales Promotion Analysis Promotion is the method you use to spread the word about your product or service to customers, stakeholders and the broader public. Not only does promotion get your product out there in the public’s eye, but you have to understand that there are levels to promotions. One should be able a proper communication strategy, a target audience, sales approach, and most importantly what does the product represent. For example, lets take a look at Nike. Nike has all types of
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Monique Scott 1.0 Executive Summary Nike is planning to introduce a new model of it’s Nike ID Plus, which will be called Nike ID Silver. The original product only calibrated with an ipod when syncing songs and only calculated how many miles ran, and how many calories burned. With the new Nike ID Silver, consumers will be able to sync with any MP3 player ( each sync piece sold separately), can be streamed wirelessly to a PC or MAC, will calculate how many calories burned, how many miles ran, your
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Environmental Scan Ricky Butler MGT/498 December 22, 2014 Gene Raltz Environmental Scan A.O. Smith Water Products Company A.O. Smith Water Products Company have established themselves as one of the world’s leading manufacturers of residential and commercial water heating equipment and technology. Because of their engineering excellence (hybrid water heaters, boilers, etc.) and customer service, A.O. Smith has been able expand their business operations into more than 60 foreign territories
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Term Project-Nike Algernon Jones & Maria Lopez MBA 6202/6215 – Strategic Management Dr. David Epstein Nike, originally known as Blue Ribbon Sports (BRS), was founded by University of Oregon track athlete Philip Knight and his coach Bill Bowerman in January 1964. The company initially operated as a distributor for Japanese shoe maker Onitsuka Tiger (now ASICS), making most sales at track meets out of Knight's automobile. In 1966, BRS opened its first retail store, located at 3107 Pico Boulevard
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