ADIDAS VERSUS NIKE
Two well-known sport apparel
suppliers are Adidas and Nike, which have competed in soccer world started from
shoes, team sponsored by them, and even the ball itself. Apparel cannot be
detached from the two big brands that have been long worldwide are Nike and
Adidas. Almost all the two brand product lines control domestic market. It can
be seen from outlets spread in various cities. Also counterfeit products that
spread almost in each street seller. Clearly Adidas and Nike do not only
compete head to head, even they also acquire other brands for the competition
of image rights. It cannot be disowned that effective and continuous promotion
becomes the key of both brands to attract costumers’ heart. In this essay, I
would like to compare and contrast between Adidas and Nike in historical, logo,
motto, and technological aspects.
In historical aspect, Adidas was
born before Nike. It was established in Herzogenaurach, Germany in 1920 by two
brothers Adolf (Adi) Dassler and Rudolph Dassler. At the beginning, this
company only produced slippers. One day in 1925, Adi was successful to design a
pair of sport shoes, and since that time, reparation and development effort in
shoes was done persistently. After they had done various innovations, in 1927s,
Adidas has been successful to design special shoes for sports and in 1928 they
gave shoes freely to athletes who participated in Amsterdam Olympiad. Supported
with by broadcasting and television, Adidas enjoyed profit from sport event
such as Olympiad or soccer, because their three-strip logo is easy to recognize
from far distance (Stoetzel, 2012: 242).
Meanwhile, initially Nike was known
as Blue Ribbon Sports, established by tract athlete Philip Knight and his
coach, Bill Bowerman from University of Oregon on January 1964. At the
beginning, the company operated as distributor for Japan shoes maker, Onitsuka
Tiger (Haisten, Payton: 2012).
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