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Submitted by yogui on June 9, 2008
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When adidas entered the marketplace some 50 years ago, its focus was to produce shoes crafted specifically for soccer and running. Establishing the brand as the choice for professional athletes eventually parlayed into preference in the mainstream.
In the 80's, Run DMC furthered adidas’s street cred with the rap “My adidas,” paying homage to their favorite shell-toe. But by the early 90's, Nike
and Reebok were out-marketing adidas – even in Germany, its own turf. Kids weren’t interested in the sneakers their parents wore, and adidas found itself forgotten in the back of the closet, heading for the Goodwill
The new millennium has since brought about an adidas renaissance; the brand has steadily regained market share over the past five years to become the world's number two athletic shoe company (behind Nike). How did it go about repositioning to once again be among the coolest of kicks?
Adidas claims that, "the brand values of the company – authenticity, inspiration, honesty and commitment – are derived from sport." Historically, this sensibility was demonstrated through early and continued involvement with Olympic athletes, as well as active sponsorship of major global sporting events – like the World Cup. Today these events provide an ample playing field for sportswear companies to duke it out for representation and thus market share. Adidas’s rapid growth in Asia, where revenue rose by 15 percent to US$ 878M last year, may be further propelled in Japan and Korea when those two nations host the World Cup this year – an event which is expected to garner 2.5M spectators and one billion TV viewers worldwide.
However, the key to revitalized success seems to lie in the considerable endorsement deals adidas has developed with world class athletes. Recent sports figures representing adidas don’t only score high marks in their game – they also score high in...
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