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Threats Of Nike

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Understanding The Impacts, Risks and Opportunities The journey to integrate sustainability deep into NIKE has required them to show how it supports their company strategy, creates value for stakeholders, mitigates risk and makes their business more resilient. To do this Nike must understand their business and its impacts, so they can make informed decisions that will bring about the greatest change. Nike also must consider the connectivity across all areas, as a decision in one area may have unintended consequences or enhancements in another. They take a broad view, as they recognize the impacts from their directly controlled operations are a small part of the total system. An important factor is Nike 's outsourced manufacturing model, which …show more content…

Reducing materials-related impacts is among the strongest levers Nike have for improving their overall environmental performance. However, it’s challenging to reach far upstream into their value chain and influence the behavior of companies and individuals over which they have no direct impact. Therefore, Nike focus on product design, an area they do control. Decisions they make in the design phase determine the majority of a product’s environmental impacts, and can have exponential effects up and down our value chain. These impacts are embedded in the creation of materials, from how much they weigh to transport, to how much water and energy is used in washing them, to what is left when a product’s useful life is over. However, Nike 's materials decisions are limited by what materials are available and their expected performance attributes. So, They also seek to understand and engage others who play critical roles in the process of developing, creating and bringing materials to …show more content…

Nike Flyknit technology revolutionizes the age-old craft of shoemaking by knitting the shoe upper with individual strands of yarn, which drastically reduces manufacturing waste and materials compared to traditional cut-and-sew methods while providing strength and support where it’s needed most. The Flyknit Racer’s laces are 30% recycled polyester, the upper is colored with water-based inks, and the sock liner is made from recycled materials. They also use 100% water-based adhesives in the midsole and outsole to reduce the use of volatile organic compounds. They’re only just beginning to see the potential for Flyknit and they plan to increase use of this technology in the coming

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Christopher, You totally got me interested in the Nike Carpet padding and what do you know it exists! I found it very interesting that you pointed out this was another revenue stream for them, and a super duper inexpensive one at that, but in addition to this factoid … guess what Nike is spinning this carpet padding as a form green living and conscientious manufacturing! So…Nike has genius figured out that they can make more money and improve their reputation to boot. According to the Step Ahead website (http://www.stepaheadcushion.com/) purchasing Nike’s carpet pad saves millions of pounds of scrap materials from landfills each year…however it doesn’t go into the details of how much money this “green effort” is putting into the coffers of

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David Montero explains that in Sialkot, Pakistan there is a business, Saga Sports, that creates the Nike soccer balls by hand, the problem Nike has with the company is that they employ children to work in unjust conditions. “In November, Nike severed its contract with Saga Sports, its chief supplier, saying Saga's poor management exposes Nike to the threat of child labor and other labor violations,” (Montero). The chief executive of Nike is trying to reduce the amount of children that produce their goods in unfair conditions. The executive wants consumers to know that they are buying products that were manufactured the proper way of not having children make these items in appalling conditions that could threaten their health. The evidence suggest that working conditions is another reason that the United States consumers should not buy products that are made by

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With this Under Armour therefore is unable to use cost leadership as a means of attracting consumers but rather must turn to differentiation of product. Under Armour is able to differentiate itself from other apparel companies by the use of synthetic material in the production of its clothing and

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For Nike to be well known as a company, it comes to a conclusion that they are working in a right way

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Nike’s first globalization strategy was outsourcing. Nike Inc. realized that manufacturing its products (footwear) in the U.S was expensive and to further export these products to distributors outside the U.S would be a massive challenge. This is because price affordability was a major concern for customers outside the U.S who would not comprehend why sportswear should be that expensive to buy. However, Nike Inc. took advantage of globalization by using the Japanese high-quality, low-priced production strategy by outsourcing all its shoe production to Japanese producers (Locke,

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Company Description Nike believes diversity and inclusion drives innovation that lead to a competitive advantage. Nike has a broad base of suppliers that actively and significantly support their business requirements. Nike’s Global Procurement team manages the procurement process, including selecting and contracting with the right suppliers for the right goods and services. They have also begun to reduce Nike 's footprint and lessen their impact.

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Analyse Nike balance cost and safety in Bangladesh from the perspective of management control systems and risk management. Introduction Poor working conditions have been present for centuries, especially in third world countries. Often times little or nothing is done unless a tragedy occurs to persuade the public to rally for worker rights. It wasn't that long ago that Nike was being shamed in public for its labor practices to the point where it badly tarnished the company's image and hurt sales. The recent factory collapse in Bangladesh was a reminder that even though Nike managed to turn around its image, large parts of the industry still haven't changed much at all.

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Nike internal assessment(ust key external factors) Opportunities Weight Rate Score 1. Should strive to penetrate the new regions that have higher rate of growth such as “Brazil, eastern Europe , India, China 0.1 4 0.4 2. New production line for protective and safety footwear. 0.1

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It will be easily giving the consumer make the decision in short time when buy the Nike’s product without compare with other Nike retail. Weakness 1. High Prices Nike is a strong brand at the global market and it normally sells the product in the market with high price to get higher margins and profit value. However, many competitors cost of the footwear is lower than Nike in the market, particularly in emerging markets, this can give consumers get many choice about the footwear.

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Starting with the Waffle Trainer to the Shox columns developed in 2001, certain technologies can only be found in Nike shoes. Since it early stages, Nike research facilities had evolved to the present 13,000 square feet building designated to the constant improvements of technologies. 4-Procurement: Nike is seeking to product innovation and sustainable growth and that requires new ways in order to continue in business. Nike is working with all its partners all over the world and the establishment of

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Simply put, Nike’s target market is mainly customers who have more concern for the quality and utility of the product than they have for the price at which the product is being sold. This helps to ensure that pricing never has to be adjusted downwards in attempts to woo in a larger number of customers. For any company to achieve success from the marketing strategies that it has put in place, it has to ensure that its strategy is flexible enough to keep up with the changing times and to also accommodate a large variety of customers. So as to do this, it is imperative that the products being produced by the company be innovative enough to exceed what is being provided by competitors in every possible way. Nike chose to take this into deep consideration and this resulted in it making a few changes on its marketing strategy.

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Nike began to sell sports apparel, athletic sports bags and extra accessories since 1979. Also, their brand Cole Haan transmits a whole clothing-line of casual dress and footwear as well as the latest and accessories for men, women and children. Correspondingly, they market head gear under the brand name ‘Sports Specialties’, for motorbikes and bicycles through ‘NikeTeam manufactures’. Furthermore, they distribute ice skates, roller blades, safety gear, and jerseys.

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This is due to Nike gets its merchandise generally from foreign manufacturers. To operate profitably, Nike need to get good value on products and supplies and, in turn, offer good value to its customers with accessible solutions. Publics: Many colleges and universities, especially anti-globalization groups as well as several anti-sweatshop groups

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Internal Analysis When conducting an internal analysis you must know the firm’s resources and capabilities. Nike’s resources are assets from succeeding in their industry. These resources include financial resources, physical resources, human resources and organizational capabilities. Firms Resources & Capabilities: Human Resources-. The company displays a strong workforce of over 30,000+ employees.

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Nike has managed to shift their Manufacturing unit into Asian country’s were the labor is cheap to be exact wages of USD1 an hour were so little as one-tenth of those given in the US. No wonder that a pair of shoes which were sold for $150 in 1991 is made by indoasian women who were 58 cents a day but the situation has started to change and due to that reason the company has managed to minimize cost of production and not only double triple the the revenue as comparing to the year 1996. Finally we come up with promotion and advertising campaigns which became a grand success not only because they introduced sportspersons , they also introduced innovative ideas and wise strategies and the image of the Product, due to this process we can say that Nike targeted a huge no of audience and created a Prestigious brand which will be easily available for average people . they also came up with great tag lines such as ‘there is no finish life’ , and in the 1980 they changed it into “ JUST DO IT “ these quotes of tag lines are considerd very simple but very attracting and extremely encouraging for the customers .

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