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
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Nike Inc. and supply-chain-software supplier i2 Technologies are pointing fingers at each other for a flawed i2 implementation that upset Nike's inventory and ultimately forced the footwear maker to slash earnings estimates. Nike officials said an i2 supply-and-demand-planning application didn't perform as expected, resulting in shortages of some footwear models and excess stock of others. Executives at i2 (stock: ITWO), however, maintain that the problem was caused not by the software itself,
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Global Executive MBA – FGV (2015) Assignment # C3 Nike, INC.: Cost of Capital Jul 31st, 2014 Case Approach As required in the instructions, the group will answer each of the questions regarding the case, along with its justifications. In addition, a spreadsheet will be attached with all the calculations regarding this case. Q1. What is the WACC and why is it important to estimate a firm’s cost of capital? Do you agree with Joanna Cohen’s WACC calculation? Why or why not? WACC
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Strategic Marketing: Nike: A Case Study: . Published: 14th October 2013 Table of Contents 1. Assignment Topic 3 2. Word Count 3 3. Executive Summary 3 4. Introduction 4 5. Nike – Where it came from 4 6. Nike – Market orientation, challenges and missteps 5 7. Nike’s labour practices shame and the turn around 8 8. Nike’s “She runs the night campaign” 9 9. Conclusion 10 10. References 11 11. Appendix A - Case Study 13 Nike - The art of selling air 13
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Nike Case Analysis Nike is a world's leading supplier of athletic shoes and apparel. The company was founded in 1964, when it was selling shoes to athletes. It grow rapidly through the 1970’s, and expanded its product lines to produce footwear in the categories of running, training, basketball, casual shoes, and kids shoes. As the bloom faded from the domestic athletic footwear market, the company entered active apparel market in 1978. Nike made a series of strategic decisions in 1970’s and early
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NIKE, INC. COST OF CAPITAL Context: Estimating Cost of Equity with different methods. Compute WACC Nike’s current price per share= $ 42.09 Question: Is it undervalued or overvalued to make buy /sell decision? Forecasts for Cash flows, Dividend growth, EPS estimates for NIKE are given. Interest rate #’s, Betas, Book values on debt and equity are given. Also historical performance #s are given. At 12% WACC Nike is overvalued and hence sell decision; At 11.17% correct valuation; WACC
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Case Analysis of Nike, Inc.: Cost of Capital (CON) Cost of Equity The cost of equity is comprised the cost of preferred stock and common stock. In this case, I am willing to focus on the cost of common stock because Nike did not pay any dividend after June 30, 2001(see Exhibit 4). The cost of common stock is the return needed on the stock by shareholders in which investors discount the expected dividends of the firm to ascertain its share price. To perceive this definition, let me bring
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Topic: Social Responsibility Strategy Name: Course: Instructor’s Name: Date: This is a report on how I would develop a social responsibility strategy for Nike (my client): introduction The company that I am going to develop a social responsibility strategy is the Nike Company that was formed in 1962 by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight as a result of collaboration of the two to come up with the most sufficient athletic shoes after the dominance of German and cheap Japanese athletic
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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
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Brandy Taylor Kaplan University MT203-05: Human Resource Management Professor Eric Freeman September 6, 2010 Florida Company Fastens Its Sights on Global Growth The case study in Managing Human Resources textbook states, Robert Kilbey has been in business since been doing business since the 1960’s, and becoming Walton County’s largest and most stable employers. Now forty-two years later his son is expanding the business and taking it international. Robert’s is very clear that he
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