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International marketing strategy of Adidas. A critical evaluation

Author: Difrine Madara

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2019-11-22

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 3346069354

Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: A, Kenyatta University, language: English, abstract: This paper aimed at exploring the competitive strategy of Adidas and growth opportunities that the company can take advantage of. Strategy is very important to the success and sustainability of any company. It involves understanding of the company’s core capabilities, weaknesses, risks it faces and strengths and using them to design a sustainable competitive strategy. The paper begins by exploring how the main competitors in the sporting goods industry; Adidas and Nike used various strategies to survive and sustain their positions in the market. Both companies focused on broad differentiation. However, Adidas focused on design innovation, cost advantages, speed of production and enhancing attractiveness of its products. Nevertheless, Nike remains to be the market leader in sport footwear and apparel industry. To challenge Nike’s position, Adidas must strive to penetrate Nike main market of North America, develop new markets in the emerging economies and while putting more investments in product and process innovations. The author also found that the company can consider strategic partnerships and greater use of technological applications such as CRM systems to enhance its competitiveness.

Adidas Marketing Strategy - An Overview

Author: Arkadi Borowski

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2011-10-26

Total Pages: 17

ISBN-13: 365603754X

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Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: 2.0, International Business School Lippstadt, language: English, abstract: The Adidas group, headquartered in Herzogenaurach (Germany) was built on 18th August 1920 by Adolf Dassler. The brand and its products celebrated their first worldwide success in 1954 after the German have won the soccer world championship. After some commercial disappointments in the middle 80 ́s, the family enterprise had to open up for investors. In 1995 followed the initial public offering on Frankfurt ́s exchange market. To stay competitive to Nike on the US-market, the company had taken over Reebok in 2006. Furthermore, the company has worldwide 169 subsidiaries and had total revenue of 11.990 Mio. Euros in 2010. The company uses the image of its brand and the available amount of capital to sponsor many sports events such as soccer championships, Olympic Games or Paralympics and many more. In 2012 Adidas will be the official sportswear-partner of the Olympic Games and the Paralympics in London. Additionally Adidas ́ high-qualified experts and its international network of suppliers make the company a competitive manufacturer of sporting goods.

Strategic Sports Marketing - the Impact of Sport Advertising Upon Consumers

Author: Christian Berger

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 3640226941

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Doctoral Thesis / Dissertation from the year 2008 in the subject Sport - Sport Economics, Sport Management, grade: 2,0, Cardiff University, course: International Business Management, language: English, abstract: The study was based on the subject that is of great interest of the author and therefore attempted to illustrate an evaluation of the impact of Adidas advertising upon purchase decisions of consumers nowadays. To enable the author to provide an evaluation of Adidas' marketing strategies, the present importance of marketing and modern challenges of advertising decisions were determined as fundamentals of a global brand based on review of relevant literature. Furthermore, an investigation of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) related to companies in the sports industry was conducted. Moreover the benefits of a global brand were illustrated. This examination was mainly based on marketing specialised literature linked with selected examples of Adidas as no representative of the Adidas company was found to be interviewed. On the one hand it was found that Adidas' historically grown passion for sports in order to provide athletes with the best possible equipment positively contributes to improve brand awarness and brand image. On the other, it was found that the identified weaknesses reduce the effectiveness of global operations in order to improve consumer satisfaction throughout the world. The research concluded that although the strategic marketing operations of the Adidas company can be reduced by weaknesses and threats, the advertising decisions represent a promising source of enhancing the brand image.

Strategic management analysis of adidas. Conditions in the sports equipment industry and available resources

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Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2014-12-15

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 3656860335

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Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Operations Research, grade: 2,0, Ashcroft International Business School Cambridge (Anglia Ruskin University), course: Strategic Management, language: English, abstract: This paper aims to evaluate conditions in the market environment in which adidas operates. Not only the sports equipment industry itself - the micro environment - is looked at, but also the wider macro environment. Additionally, adidas' critical success factors are outlined, its resource capabilities are evaluated, highlighting threshold and unique resources, and the company's core competences are specified. Using a SWOT analysis, conclusions are drawn by assessing how well the strategic capabilities of adidas fit the environmental factors relevant to the company.

Nike Inc- Complete Analysis

Author: BANKIM CHANDRA PANDEY

Publisher: BookRix

Published: 2017-11-27

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 374384236X

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Nike competitor analysis Adidas-Adidas worldwide revenue is around 16 billion US dollar and has the brand valuation of around 7 billion US dollar. Adidas is one of the biggest Nike competitors. The main advantage of this company is its brand value and having a strong subsidiary in Reebok. Reebok- The company has world revenue three billion US dollar and brand valuation of around one billion US dollar. It is a subsidiary company of Adidas which operates independently. The company is mainly famous for its designer footwear for sports. Puma- The company has revenue around 3.4 billion and third Nike competitor which is known for its running shoes and sports apparel.The founder of Puma and Adidas were brothers but they got separated in 1948. Adidas is far ahead of Puma but Puma is global Nike competitor. Although Puma lacks in sports sponsorship revenue generated by Puma is enormous. Fila- The company is one of the largest manufacturing companies in footwear brand. Fila is not the premium category in comparison to Nike. The fila adopt penetration pricing technique by giving the cheaper branded product in comparison to NIKE. The company main policy revolves around cost advantage then its design or differentiation.

Validating the social media strategies of adidas and Nike on Facebook and Instagram

Author: Anna Lena Bischoff

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2017-03-03

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 3668409293

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Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: 1,7, Linneaus University (School of Business and Economics), course: E-Business Management, language: English, abstract: Social media (SM) strategies have gained major importance for the retailers in the last decade. The effective use of SM channels for marketing purposes leads to valuable information and insights about markets. However, many managers still fail to understand the importance of the possibilities of SM usage for strengthening brand perception. This might be due to the lack of commonly agreed SM success factors in academic research. The purpose of this paper is to discuss SM success factors and to evaluate how the two world leading sports brands NIKE and adidas follow the application of the discussed success factors. Based on a literature review, the authors summarized the most commonly discussed SM success factors. Data collection was conducted in a consecutive, two step approach, first extracting relevant data from the annual reports, and then withdrawing data from the companies SM channels through text mining. The data was then analysed according to the success factors summarized from academic literature. Also NIKE’s and adidas’ accomplishments in achieving their goals set in the annual reports on SM were examined. adidas achieves a higher success rate than NIKE in laying out their SM strategy. Both adidas and NIKE cannot entirely live up to their ambitions, underperforming on SM in practice.

Digital Marketing. A Case Study of Adidas and Snapchat

Author: Ricardo Escoda

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2018-08-28

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 3668785589

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Case Study from the year 2018 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: 1,3, International School of Management, Campus Munich, language: English, abstract: Since market power has moved from enterprises to consumers, and global competition has increased substantially, managers in almost all industries need to face enormous performance challenges. To avoid being replaced by rivals, they are forced to be more innovative in establishing and performing their competitive strategies. Long-term success will not be achieved solely through competitiveness but instead will depend on the ability to evolve new demand and create and gather new markets. Therefore, marketing is one of the most fundamental topics when concentrating on the customers’ desires. Mainly it is about picking up the clients by delivering a unique feeling in form of a must-have product. Adidas is counted among one of the global players of sports and lifestyle brands, together with its biggest competitors Nike and Puma. With an annual revenue of EUR 21.218bn (in 2017), over 56,888 employees worldwide, and more than 900 million products produced per year, the German business is an omnipresent sports and lifestyle brand, which became more and more important over the last decades. According to Statista, it was voted one of the ten most reputable companies worldwide in 2018, being the only sports and lifestyle brand in this ranking. In addition, Forbes published an article, stating that Adidas reached the third place of the World’s most valuable sports brands, following Nike and ESPN. Yet by comparing the global revenues of Adidas, Nike and Puma from 2006 to 2017 it can be seen, that the company founded in 1924 by Adi Dassler in a small village in Southern Germany called Herzogenaurach is lagging behind Nike’s global revenues for many years. This is one of the core reasons driving the brand with the three stripes to establish new marketing strategies for diversifying and simultaneously increasing its customer portfolio. The sections below concern aspects referring to the research fields E-Marketing and E- Commerce, Online Marketing, Online Advertising and Social Media, and Mobile Marketing. A summary with the most fundamental information is provided at the end of each part.

Brand Extension. How Sub-Branding can be used to stretch a Brand effectively

Author: Lina Seil

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2016-10-20

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 3668323968

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Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Business economics - Offline Marketing and Online Marketing, grade: 2,0, University of Applied Sciences Hannover, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this academic paper is to identify how Sub-Branding can be used to stretch a brand effectively. Thereby, the essence of the Brand Extension should be clarified and especially Sub-Branding should be classified and represented. In addition, an overview of the Adidas Group is given. Furthermore, it is closely examined, how Sub-Branding works in practice on the basis of the brand Adidas. First of all the focus of this academic paper lies on the conceptual fundamentals. This chapter will define and discuss the terms Brand, Brand Management and Brand Policy. Secondly, Brand Extension will be analysed in detail. Here, the types of Brand Extension – which are Category Extension and Line Extension – and its opportunities and risks will be displayed. Then the Brand Extension strategy Sub-Branding – and in particular, its objectives, requirements, as well as opportunities and risks – will be explained in detail. Following this, a case study of the German sportswear retailer Adidas is presented to illustrate how Brand Extension and especially Sub-Branding work in practice. Thereby, this chapter is aimed at recognizing how Sub-Branding can be used to extend a brand effectively. At the beginning, the company Adidas and its Brand Portfolio will be intro-duced. Afterwards, a closer look is taken at how Sub-Branding works in practice based on the example of Adidas using several sub-brands. Following that, a critical evaluation of the company’s brand extension strategy finalizes the chapter. Finally, the knowledge gained from this academic paper will be summarized in a con-clusion.

The Internationalization Strategy of PUMA SE

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Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2021-12-23

Total Pages: 23

ISBN-13: 3346561445

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Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,4, University of Ulm, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this essay is to present the internationalization strategy based on the German sports textile manufacturer PUMA SE. The paper first begins with an introduction in which the terminology which is necessary for understanding the essay is explained. In addition, the relevant internationalization strategies for entering foreign countries and markets are highlighted. The subsequent chapter deals with the history and development of PUMA as a company. The main part of this essay consists of a 5 forces analysis of PUMA and a description of their internationalization strategy. The conclusion of this essay shows a critical appraisal of the previously gained knowledge.

International Marketing Strategy

Author: Chris Phillips

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 9780415089852

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