Adidas Group

4. Further Research—Gather information on Nike’s recent moves and accomplishments, and those of its rival Adidas. Are both firms following the same strategies and using the same structures to support them? Or, is one doing something quite different from the other? Based on what you learn, what do you predict for the future? Will Nike stay on top, or is Adidas the next industry leader?

Reebok prides itself on creating products to enhance athletic ability. Upon formation of the company, Reebok has been dedicated to making athletes faster. Since then, Reebok has evolved into the world’s second largest maker of athletic apparel and is a leader in the shoe industry. Now Reebok will pave the way with its answer to the latest craze in

In the last couple of years Nike’s sales have decreased which were targeted at 15-19 year olds. This problem has caused Nike to lose customers which means a loss in sales/ profits. Over the past few months competitors have been raising their strategies to bring in customers in which increases their profits. This is having a negative effect on Nike, if Nike carry on the way

Since being founded in 1962, Nike has grown from a small fledgling shoe retailer into a world-wide corporate giant. During its first year, sales for Nike were $8000, but as of November 30th, annual sales for Nike were over 12 billion dollars. (hoover) Although Nike already dominates the sporting world, there are many opportunities for growth. According to our research, key strategic challenges facing Nike are increased competition from Adidas with their technological shoe, the Adidas One, and a potentially fatal inability to enter a new growth market such as the extreme sports market. Our recommendations to help Nike confront these challenges consist of developing a product to remain competitive with Adidas, and also an aggressive move

Adidas is a sportswear manufacturing company started by Adolf Dassler. Adidas group has incorporated brands including Adidas, Reebok, TaylorMade-Adidas and Rockport. The wings of the company are widespread and have assimiliated other productions including handbags, shirts, spectacles, watches, balls, and sportswear. Adidas is being the largest company that sells footwear in the European market and have achieved a momentous market share at the global platform. Adidas has achieved phenomenal sale and have reached the pinnacle of success on the global scale with other international footwear companies (McDonald & Milne, 1999).

By far the leading competitors in the industry are the three-headed monster of Nike, Under Armor and Adidas. With Nike reporting 13% increase in revenue in North America and the fact that North America accounts for 40% of their revenue alone, Nike is truly the giant of the industry, (“Adidas Vs…”). Though Adidas holds a huge chunk of the market share in European countries, the mainly soccer-oriented company falls behind Nike and Under Armour in the US. Recently Under Armour surpassed Adidas when “Under Armour’s U.S. sales of footwear and apparel totaled $2.6 billion in the 11 months through Jan. 3, compared with $1.6 billion for Adidas, according to data released Thursday by Sterne Agee and SportScanInfo. Both companies trailed Nike Inc.’s

The concentration of Adidas on the world cup campaign may alienate other customers from the basketball field or other

After 2006, Nike caught up with the Adidas in global market share. It’s all thanks to Nike’s ability to find new alternative ways of brand management such as digital distribution with YouTube or individual partnerships with players that lead to Nike catching up when it did not have the rights to market extensively on the worlds biggest stage.

The biggest competitors of Nike,Inc. is the other sports company Adidas. Adidas holds larger number of shares in the market compared to Nike,Inc. The companies like Adidas, Reebok and UnderArmour are threat to Nike,Inc. But these companies are struggling with marketing their products. Nike, Inc still holds a strong place in the market owing to its extraordinary marketing strategies and innovation. The marketing strategy of Nike,Inc is cost efficient. Nike, Inc. has also used online marketing to its advantage. It advertises on every social media platform. It has around 13 lakh 71 thousand followers on Facebook. Nike, Inc also engages celebrity athletes to advertise their product. Owing to its strong marketing and high-quality products, Nike has become the most famous sports shoes brand in the world. Nike, Inc. is also known to embrace change and has been successful in designing new products for its target age group which is 15-35 years of age. It is difficult for any other sports company to build the kind of brand Nike, Inc. has built over the years. The loyal customers are ready to pay high price for the Nike shoes due to its reliability.

The company also maintained higher operating margin of 13.9% compared to close competitor, adidas AG, which recorded 6.2% during the same period. Strong financial performance enables the company to gain investor confidence and improve growth prospects.

In the beginning, Adidas was an important supplier of German soccer teams after World War II. Later, they changed their strategy to expand their products to “fringe sports,” such as high jumping and bobsledding. By 1990s, Adidas have secured their global sales on soccer footwear. In 1998, Adidas began to focus on the U.S market. By sponsoring some famous basketball players such as Kobe Bryant. By doing so Adidas was able to gain doubled market share.

1. What is adidas’ position in the athletic shoe market? How does the brand seem to be doing in this market? Position: the position of adidas has transferred from “leading supplier of soccer footwear worldwide” to “leading sport brand”. Adidas was founded in Germany in 1920. In 1995, it became a public company as well as the leading supplier of soccer footwear due to its great performance of footwear sales. In 1998, adidas began to move into the U.S. market. Adidas doubled its U.S. market share within only one year, so it hoped to continue to make big move in following years. In its way to U.S. market, adidas confront with the

Adidas Group, as one of the world’s retail leaders in sportswear, has as primary target the sports participants, including high performance athletes, as well as non-athletes who are inspired by those at the highest level of their sport, and those that really love sports as part of their lives.

Adidas is a major German sports apparel manufacturer, which was founded in 1948. It is the largest sportswear manufacturer in Europe and the second biggest sportswear manufacturer in the world, after Nike. The company's clothing and shoe designs typically feature three parallel bars. The company revenue for 2009 was listed at €10.38 billion. The market segmentation; targeting and position play an important role in this company. This essay will use the three factors to analyze this company.

for the company is nowadays towards teams, global sports events and sport associations (Dogiamis & Vijayashanker, 2009). Adidas can this way connect itself with emotional events in sport; they sponsor the European football championship, the soccer World Cup and the Olympics. They also sponsor national and local teams around the globe (Dogiamis & Vijayashanker, 2009). Adidas has changed their image from just targeting elite athletes and is now more about participation. (Aaker & Joachimsthaler, 2000)