Reebok International Ltd
Case study - 5 pages - Business strategy
Reebok International Ltd. has been unquestionably one of the juggernauts in the athletic footwear department behind Nike and Adidas for quite some time now. This prestigious shoe company was founded back in 1895, in Bolton, Lancashire by Joseph William Foster. Reebok was formally known as...
The French luxury industry in China
Thesis - 45 pages - Services marketing
China with a huge population of 1.3 billion opened its market to economic reform following the death of China with a huge population of 1.3 billion opened its market to economic reform following the death of Mao Zedong in 1978 and the subsequent accession to power by Deng Xiaoping. Based on the...
Case study: Nike
Case study - 9 pages - Services marketing
Nike is the largest manufacturer of sports equipment in the world, and sponsors the greatest athletes globally. This American company, founded in 1972 by Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman established this image, especially in the 1970s, in the context of the development of sports entertainment. In...
Market potential of Levi's
Thesis - 40 pages - Services marketing
A dress is a reflection of the culture of a period and in an inclusive term. For garments, fashions define the notations of taste in a given cultural environment. The term has particular reference to prevailing in matters of dresses and department, but it is broad enough to include also...
Lacoste case study: Vintage products
Case study - 17 pages - Services marketing
Vintage sports brands are double whammy. By digging into their history, one can find that they are expanding their scope to fashion, an area where they previously were not present and thus ensure new growth opportunities. The sports brands are actively looking into the fashion market: 70% to 80%...
SpnKiX: Case study
Case study - 11 pages - Business strategy
SpnKiX was founded by Peter Treadway, who received his undergraduate degree in Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and his Masters from Art Center College of Design in Industrial Design with a focus in Transportation. After having raised their funding through kickstarter.com,...
Brand and communication - Nike: The goddess of marketing
Presentation - 5 pages - Services marketing
History Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman imported Japanese shoes and created BRS “Blue Ribbon Sports”. First polemic with the advertisement “you don't win silver - you lose gold” First partnership with football team Strategy of Nike Knight & Bowerman sold the...
Tom Ford vs Marc Jacobs
Case study - 52 pages - Business strategy
Jacobs launched his name sake line in 1986 and then in 2001 debuted another critically acclaimed collection, Marc by Marc Jacobs, a collection of comparatively affordable edgy and retro mass-market pieces. His accompanying accessory lines—bags loaded with pockets or buckles, round-toed...
Strategy and SWOT analysis for Lacoste
Thesis - 13 pages - Business strategy
Since its origin, the brand has been very famous and its model is impossible to circumvent, known under the name of code ‘1212', and remains everlasting. Although it has an international reputation, everyone associates it with a sports shirt whereas it is actually about a shirt, with the...
Adidas-Reebok merger, analysis of the international strategy
Case study - 9 pages - Business strategy
In early May 2005, the three stripes to Solomon resold just fewer than 500 million Euros to the former Finnish group Amer Sports cigarette. A few months earlier, in March, the specialist in slip Quicksilver seized 241 million Euros of Nightingale, the world's number one ski. Meanwhile,...
Adidas Ltd: AG's acquisition of Reebok International Ltd
Essay - 5 pages - Business strategy
On August 3, 2005, European sports shoe maker (based in Germany) Adidas-Saloman AG's acquisition of Reebok International Ltd. was announced. The market's reaction was cautiously positive to the news, with Adidas' share price appreciating by 7.5%. The CEOs of the two companies...
TMode: Trade show of fashion creators
Essay - 3 pages - Journalism
The fashion industry includes, in term of activity, the manufacture of clothes, footwear and of sweaters, shoes, perfumes and jewels. An industrial company on 10 works in the field of the fashion. Sector was little concentrated, it groups together almost 2000 companies of more than 20...
Globalization and jobs
Thesis - 5 pages - Human resources
Over the past two decades, labor has become increasingly globalized. The integration of China, India, and the former Eastern bloc into the world economy, together with population growth, has led to an estimated fourfold increase in the effective global labor force, which could more than double...
Infrastructure: India's pre requisite to development
Thesis - 6 pages - Economy general
For a country that believes in a fully clothed culture, and prides herself on being rich with plenty, to have torn dresses to wear and worn out shoes to put on is a very ironic and sad thing. Nations embody the character and dignity of their people and India is not quite putting out the...
Feasibility study of the Primark company in the French market
Case study - 10 pages - Business strategy
Primark, subsidiary of Associated British Foods, is a well known retailing Brand in clothing founded by Arthur Ryan, actual chairman.First headquarters were located in Ireland, where the brand was born as Penneys. The first store opened in 1969 in Dublin. 1973 opened the first store in UK....
Gucci
Case study - 6 pages - Services marketing
In 1921, Guccio Gucci opened a leather goods company and a small boutique for travel bags in his native town, Florence. After working in England for several years, he introduced the English style in Italy through leather goods. In a few years, the brand became very successful and attracted a...
Strategy of Christian Dior - published: 03/01/2011
Thesis - 17 pages - Business strategy
Christian Dior was the creator of one of the largest luxury homes, who would have celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2005, and has marked his time with his creative genius. ? Christian Dior; an atypical profile: 1905 - 1934 Christian Dior was born into a wealthy family on January 21, 1905 in...
How can we claim that the sport at the world level became a real business in our time?
Dissertation - 28 pages - Sports
Today, it is difficult to deny that sport takes a considerable importance in our society. An importance which can be characterized at several levels: economic, social, or even cultural. Thus, we can assist different sports events all the year round, but also do our Sunday jogging, or go to the...
When Advertising Rules Change... the Reebok Case
Case study - 8 pages - Services marketing
Since the mid eighties, companies have understood the importance of including marketing and communication in their strategies. Over the years and thanks to a globalization context, competition started to increase and firms had to justify their position on their respective markets. With the...
The international strategy of H&M
Case study - 22 pages - Business strategy
H&M is an abbreviation for Hennes and Mauritz. Hennes was the name of the first store. Indeed, Erling Persson, a Swedish vendor of pens, made a trip to the United States and discovered a new type of store that conducted big sales by selling clothes at reduced prices. Back in Sweden, he decided to...
Strategic Marketing of Caroll fashion house in China
Market study - 9 pages - Services marketing
Caroll is a French fashion chain of stores created in 1963 by Raphael Levy and Joseph Bigio with the will to create good and nice clothes for women. Indeed, in a first time they decided to produce comfortable and customized pullovers and as it was a great success, Caroll Company launched a line...
Pounding the concrete or entering the pool: Efforts to reduce driving
Thesis - 5 pages - Sociology
The cool, clean air blows right on my face. The radio is as loud as I want it. There is minimal lurching, and no smelly strangers sitting right next to me. My shoes are not wet, I did not have to leave a half hour early to get where I need to go, and there is no need to leave before it...
'We don't live here anymore': The historicity of what was once the deserted house
Thesis - 6 pages - Literature
Historically, women in industrialized societies are placed at a double disadvantage; in addition to occupational workloads and/or the rigor of citizenship, they are also responsible for the daily maintenance of the domestic sphere. In regarding women's experiences in Stalinist-era Soviet Russia,...
Marketing using sports in India
Dissertation - 38 pages - Services marketing
If there is one change that has taken place in the sporting arena during the past 15 years in the country, it is the influx of marketing muscle and the infusion of large sums of money. Players, events, broadcast and media coverage, clothing and merchandising, grassroots development programs, fan...
The push and pull: Dichotomies in the lover
Thesis - 5 pages - Modern history
Reading The Lover, you have the experience of sitting down with Marguerite Duras, perhaps in a dim room on a day in late summer, sipping cold tea in tall glasses, intent on hearing the story of her Chinese lover, the man she lost her innocence to many years ago as a young French girl in...
What does historical research tell us about the social character and ideas of the Parisian sans-culotte?
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
With his 'Phrygians cap' also called ?bonnet rouge' or the ?cap of liberty'; his blue-white-red striped long-trousers, his carmagnole (short-skirted coat) and his sabots (wooden shoes) characterized the Parisian sans-culotte who was one of the most famous, symbolic active...
Benetton Group's advertising campaigns, an expression of our time
Essay - 17 pages - Services marketing
Benetton was founded in an Italian town in 1955 by Luciano Benetton and his brothers and sister. The first store was opened in 1969. Today, the Benetton Group is present in 120 countries around the world, and is engaged in the manufacturing and distribution of clothing, undergarments,...
A viral advertising campaign: "Terry Tate" launched by Reebok in 2003
Case study - 5 pages - Services marketing
Today the sporting shoes and apparel market is highly competitive and has reached the maturity stage. At this level companies have to differentiate their offer in order to win new market shares or at least keep their position. This differentiation must be done on two levels: product...
SWOT Analysis - H&M
Case study - 5 pages - Fashion and ready to wear marketing
The Hennes and Mauritz group is known globally as H&M, an extremely popular fast fashion brand. Currently H&M operates five thousand stores, including E-commerce platforms, across more than seventy countries. High stock turnover rate ensures that the company sets and keeps up with the latest...
Strategic internal diagnosis of the Brand Chanel
Case study - 5 pages - Services marketing
Chanel's products represent a very heterogeneous mix. Indeed, Chanel has developed multiple skills, allowing us to define five homogeneous strategic business areas or SBAs. Haute Couture -Clothing Chanel is present in all categories of designer clothing brands including swimsuits....
