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0.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Nike Inc. was founded in 1962 by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight as a partnership under the
name, Blue Ribbon Sports. At that time; the goal then was to distribute low-cost, high-quality
Japanese athletic shoes to American consumers in an attempt to break Germany's domination of
the domestic industry. Today in 2012, Nike Inc does not only manufacture and distribute athletic
shoes at every marketable price point to a global market, but over 40% of its sales come from
athletic apparel, sports equipment, and subsidiary ventures.
Nike maintains traditional and non-traditional distribution channels in more than 100 countries
targeting its primary market regions: United States, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Americas. It
utilizes over 20,000 retailers, Nike factory stores, Nike stores, NikeTowns, Cole Haan stores, and
internet-based Web sites to sell the sports and leisure products.
It dominates sales in the athletic footwear industry with a 33% global market share. Nike Inc. has
been able to attain this premier position through "quality production, innovative products, and
aggressive marketing." If well implemented; this marketing plan will see the organization
achieving its objectives thereby fulfilling its mission.
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1.0 MISSION STATEMENT
Being the center of innovation and bring inspiration to customers across the board.
1.1 VISION
Our vision is to increase market share by 10% by the end of 2012; increase sales by 15% as well
as increase profits by 10% within the same period of 2012.
1.3 CORE VALUES
Innovation
Team work
Customer oriented
2.0 MARKET AUDIT
2.1 INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT
The audit in this regard will focus on the company’s marketing strategies as well as the company
structure.
2.2 ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
An organizational structure specifies the various job tasks and shows how the same are formally
divided, grouped, and coordinated. It provides an appropriate framework for authority
relationship and indicates the hierarchy of authority as well as the reporting relationships. It is a
means to help the management to achieve the organizational objectives. NIKE’s organizational
structure is a matrix structure which is shown in the diagram overleaf. This structure is likely to
affect the time at which decision is going to be made as there are many hierarchies (diagram for
structure is overleaf).
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ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE
2.3 EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT
This focuses mainly on external factors which affect NIKE’s operations such that they hinder the
achievement of its objectives. Such factors are Political, Economical, Technological,
Environmental and Legal factors abbreviated as PESTEL factors.
2.3.1 POLITICAL
Nike trades mainly in America where it originated; the United Kingdom and other European
countries such as France and Germany. All of these countries where Nike sell its products; there
is a stable political environment since the countries are ruled democratically since the
governments in this countries have been elected by the general public in that particular country.
The majority of these countries home and export markets have been boosted with the inclusion
of the euro which makes it easier to trade between these countries. This is an advantage to Nike,
as they do not need to be influenced by exchange rates when exporting goods from one country
to the other.
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In both the United Kingdom and The USA general elections are on the horizon they are still a
long way away but the respective governments are now starting to enforce policies with election
in minds. This could influence interest rates meaning that more people will have disposable
income and then Nike may decide to use big advertising campaigns so that this disposable
income can be spent on Nike. Nike has to be aware of pressure groups trying to get bans on
methods that Nike uses. This could be things such as trying to stop Nike from being able to set
up factories in undeveloped countries and also using certain leathers coming from animals to
make football boots.
Nike needs to be aware of any help they could get off the governments such as getting subsidies
for setting up Nike factories in areas of high unemployment like Nissan setting up a major
factory in Sunderland. This could be a big help to Nike as it would mean getting planning
permission for a factory and it would also mean they can import more goods into this particular
countries markets.
2.3.2 ECONOMICAL
The USA has been facing economic recession challenges in recent years, however it is
recovering from that situation and the earnings of potential customers are on the increase. It is
against this background that it is assumed that our products are expected to enjoy better market
attention than before.
2.3.3 SOCIAL
Nike are a multinational company so these affects the decisions that they make when designing a
new product or making a new advertising campaign. A big decision for Nike to consider is how
to make the products available to the customer. To do this Nike must research the buying habits
of a customer. This can mean how much and how often they buy a product and therefore would
is easier for customers to have their goods delivered for convenience.
Nike have to assess the way in goods are purchased. They will have to look at the increase of
Internet shopping and mail order compared to buying products from a shop and then makes the
decision to invest more in these types of shopping.
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Another factor Nike need to consider is the lifestyle of the customer and must answer questions
such as the time that people have got to go shopping and whether they work unsocial hours
meaning that internet shopping may be more affective to larger amounts of people.
Nike have to take into accounts religious and political features of the countries they are trading in
such as restrictions on advertising such as advertising unhealthy products to children or religious
restrictions to advertising such as bearing large amounts of skin in advertisements. Nike could
also look at religious beliefs and may be able to make products around these religious beliefs.
They may also need to know that certain religions and social groups may be against wearing a
particular type of material such as fur.
Nike has to consider how many people live in these areas. For example you should not make too
many products for the market they are trading in because the supply will go up and the demand
will go down if the market is price sensitive meaning that Nike has to reduce the price to sell the
product.
When a new product is being made Nike have to evaluate the climates and terrain they are
selling in for example they will not be able to sell a product designed to keep the body cool in an
area that is freezing cold such as Scandinavian countries.
2.3.4 TECHNOLOGICAL
Nike use Technology in a number of different areas to conduct its business. The first area they
use technology for is making the products and they have to be aware of any new advances in
machinery that would make it quicker, easier and cheaper to make the products.
Nike are always trying to make new products with new and unique features designed to do a
specific job, such as keeping the body cool. When these products are created these ideas will be
patented giving Nike an advantage over competitors. Another area to exploit is the internet
which is for internet sales and is a lucrative area for Nike to tap into. Nike will realize that if they
can get into this market they will make a huge profit.
Nike also has to use technology to make their advertisements. Nike will always want to use more
technology in their advertisements along with their stars as they can get a lot more sales from a
good advertising campaign such as the recent ‘Freestyle” campaign.
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2.3.5 ENVIRONMENTAL
Nike has to consider a number of factors to do with the environment when making their
products. For example; they have to consider raw materials. Nike has to consider whether the
raw materials that they use to make their products are going to run out or not. The Raw materials
that Nike use are animal skins for leather. Fortunately for Nike these materials will not run out as
long as animals keep on re-producing.
Nike needs to consider whether they could use synthetic materials instead of skins so that they
stop killing animals and reduce the cost of obtaining these materials.
The trends will be changing for the type of materials used for the products and Nike needs to
consider how to obtain these materials while causing as little damage to the environment as
possible.
Nike need to understand that pressure groups will not like them harming the environment and
that if Nike do not conduct good public relations with these groups and do harm the environment
then Nike’s goods could be boycotted resulting in the company making losses.
2.3.6 LEGAL
Legal issues are of key importance to the company as these laws can determine how it conducts
its business. It is essential that Nike comply with these rules or else they will have to pay a high
price or even fold.
The acts that have to be obeyed are the consumer protection legislation, The trade descriptions
act. The sales and supply act, The weights and measures act, the equal opportunities act which is
making sure that nobody gets an unfair chance at the expense of the other.
3.0 SWOT ANALYISIS
This serves to analyze NIKE’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats which are likely
to affect the attainment of the company’s objectives in either way.
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3.1 STRENGTHS
Nike has no factories; rather it uses contract factories to get the work done which makes
it quite a lean organization. It has contracts with above 705 shops globally in about 46
different countries.
Nike’s research and development is quite strong as evidenced by its evolving and
innovative product range.
It has employs about more than 30 thousand people all over the world.
Nike is a worldwide recognized to be the number one sportswear brand in the World.
Nike being a competitive organization has a healthy aversion towards its competitors;
that is during the Atlanta Olympics, Reebok expensed on sponsoring the games; Nike
however sponsored the top athletes and due to this step, it gained valuable exposure.
3.2 WEAKNESSES
Nike was for pretty some time loath to reveal any type of information relating to its
colleague companies.
This company was also accounted to have practical child employment in Pakistan and
Cambodia to produce footballs.
Anti-globalization groups due to its unruly and exploited manner that was quite adisaster for its reputation positioned.
Although it has a wide range for sportswear, however it is still heavily reliant upon its
share of the footwear market which leaves it at a quite defenseless place if for any
reason its market share corrodes.
Every business retail sector is price sensitive that means trader usually have a propensity
to offer a very similar know-how to the customers with a new cheaper product.
The key weakness of Nike, resides in its financial status. While it is not in financial trouble, it
recognize that strengthening the financial well being of the company can only assist the company
in the short- and long-run. It has many areas challenging the continued success such as
increasing profitability and bettering the management of cash, accounts receivable, and debt.
Nike suffered a blow to sales and revenue sparked by bad publicity in 1997 about its
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international labor policies. Since then, it has attempted to overcome the bad press by raising and
enforcing minimum age requirements for employees in overseas factories. Nike attempted to
regain its mid-90's momentum as shown in 1998’s recovery, but the loss of Michael Jordan as
the spokesman and the Asian financial crisis put a damper on gains that year. During 1999, the
company made some changes in its products and deeply cut costs. These initiatives, in addition
to the stabilization in the Asian financial picture, will combine to fuel the recovery that Nike
expects in the near future. Nike's recent alliance with Fogdog Sports, an Internet sporting goods
retailer, and our presence in the Olympic games will also aid in sales growth.
3.3 OPPORTUNITIES
A large number of customers put on Nike product just because they develop a fashionstyle rather than to take part in any type of sport. It is mostly seems in young generation.
Nike is a trendy brand, which also provides chances for Nike since its products would
become old-fashioned before even the product wears out that is consumers, will sense the
need to replace the item with a newer fashion.
Nike through the advertisement of corporate brand and sponsorship agreements give a
bunch of effort on its business marketing.
Nike's once loyal market is currently aging. This means that customers are not as athletic asthey may have been in the past. However, this poses as an opportunity for Nike because they
have the ability to influence the next generation of Nike customers. The older generation of
Nike brand purchasers have the power to influence their children - part of the next generation
of Nike loyalists. In addition, by marketing different types of shoes to this market, these
existing customers will continue to be loyal to Nike.
3.4 THREATS
A slump in international economy may lead to job scarcity in most of Nike’s worldwide
shops.
There are heavy competitors of Nike in the market that are always seeking the way to
overtake it by applying new techniques.
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Clients which are always shopping around for a better deal that express a good quality &
if one store takes higher price for the products, the buyer would try to seek a better deal
of the same product in any other place that convey the same value but cheaper.
Due to atmospheric pollution, Nike is careworn to maintain its ecological reputation in
the whole world.
The phenomenon of the aging of Nike’s most loyal market segment questions whether there is a
threat that the new generation will not be exclusively loyal to Nike. In the current market there
are a number of other competitors that are not mainly athletically oriented. Examples include
such manufacturer-retailers as Reebok and L.A Gear. Their clothing and shoes are competing
with Nike's. In addition, Nike is not keeping up with the latest trends and styles like some of its
competitors have been. For that reason, the newer generation is attracted by Adidas and Tommy
Hilfiger.
3.5 TOP COMPETITOR ANALYSIS
Distinctive Competency - Marketing (Consumer Loyalty)
Despite the tough times Reebok has recently come upon, reasons for optimism remain. Reebok
has managed to hold the loyalty of a large portion of the industry’s female consumers market.
While Reebok’s spending on advertising has fluctuated, individual product designs have come
and gone, female consumers have, as a group, remained loyal to Reebok and their products.
If Reebok can expand their appeal to incorporate female consumers who are not currently
Reebok customers, Reebok could expand their market share and take customers away from Nike
products. Nike’s sponsorship of the 1999 Women’s World Cup Soccer Tournament was a great
example of how Nike is appealing to female athletes.
Competitor’s Key Weakness – Marketing – (Advertising/Promotion)
The leading cause of Reebok and L. A. Gear’s recent tumbles stemmed from problems relating
to poor marketing. L. A. Gear and Reebok’s shortcoming in the area of marketing is their key
weakness. While other athletic shoe companies bombard the airwaves with commercials pushing
their product lines, Reebok and L. A. Gear remains out of sight and out of mind. While
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Reebok’s competitors are known by familiar slogans like Nike's "Just Do It," Reebok’s, "Are
You Feeling It," does not equate to their brand name in the eyes of most consumers.
3.5 SUMMARY OF MARKET AUDIT
STRENGTHS
Reputable brand
Strong research and development
Have a larger workforce
Have a worldwide recognized
sportswear brand over its competitors
Have a valuable exposure over its
competitors.
WEAKNESSES
Poor distribution strategies
Was once blamed for employing
children to produce footballs in
Cambodia
Its reputation was once affected by anti-
globalization groups.
Relies mainly on its market share for
footwear which may affect its existence
if the market corrode
The propensity to offer a very similar
know-how to the customers with a new
cheaper product.
OPPORTUNITIES
Growing market
Have a bunch of effort through
advertisement of corporate brand and
sponsorship agreements.
THREATS
A slump in international economy maylead to job scarcity in most of Nike’s
worldwide shops.
Heavy competitors which are always
seeking for new techniques to overtake
Nike
Customer sensitivity due to availability
of alternative suppliers
Atmospheric pollution which poses a
challenge to maintain its ecological
reputation world wide
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4.0 ASSUMPTIONS
In-order to facilitate a proper framework within which the marketing plan can be made, certain
assumptions have been made so as to hold certain dynamic factors constant, their change of
which will neutralize the marketing plan’s effectiveness thus will not be applicable in one way or
the other. The following assumptions have been made:
The economy remains stable for the next twelve months so that the budget will not be
affected by unexpected economic recessions.
Consumers’ spending habits do not change as result of a fall in their income, thus the
market is assumed not to be price sensitive.
No other additional competitor will join the market within the forecasted twelve months.
5.0 MARKETING STRATEGIES
This section explains the broad marketing strategies that Nike will implement in-order to
accomplish the plan’s objectives. The Marketing Strategies will focus on price; product;
promotion and place/distribution.
5.1 PRICE
Since it is the only ‘P’ responsible for the generation of revenue, Nike’s pricing structure must be
designed in a way to make it competitive to other shoe sellers. The major goal is to maximize
profits, to recover costs, and some competitive reasons. The pricing is based on the basis of
premium segment as target customers. Having a competitive pricing structure, Nike as a leading
company in the manufacturing of sneakers needs to take the role of a price leadership. This
means all other competitors like L.A. Gear and Reebok are forced to strategies their prices
basing on what Nike is offering. The prices of products vary depending on the size and type.
Taking for example a comfortable and good pair of shoes would cost from 70 to 150 dollars.
5.2 PRODUCT
Nike’s major focus is athletic footwear, but it offers a wide range of apparel and equipment
products, all of which are currently its top-selling product categories. Nike started selling sports
apparel, athletic bags and accessory items. To increase brand awareness; Nike will also market
head gear under the brand name Sports Specialties, through Nike Team Sports, Inc. In addition to
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this; the company will sell small amounts of plastic products to other manufacturers through
Nike IHM, Inc. Bauer Nike Hockey Inc. manufactures and distribute ice skates, skate blades, in-
roller skates, protective gear, hockey sticks and hockey jerseys and accessories. Due to increased
emphasis by consumers on fashion in relation to sportswear, Nike will have to make to make
strides to appeal to a fashion savvy market. The company’s apparel line is not only being
challenged by its typical industry competitors such as Adidas and Reebok, but also by clothing
and accessories retailers such as Old Navy and Abercrombie & Fitch. Continuous marketing
research could prove to be key in assessing the market. Nike will have to plan on initiating five
structures within the apparel division to focus on the following areas:
Women
Men
Kids
sports graphics and caps
strategic response independently
There is also need to spend more time on continuing to support and develop programs to gain a
better understanding of what its customers would like to see in the market through market
research.
Nike will have to collaborate with other companies within the sports and fitness industry as well
as expand into markets for which it is not strategically suited. An example is the decrease in
brands made available due to declining sales of in-line skating and roller hockey products at
Bauer Nike Hockey.
5.3 PROMOTION
Promotional and Communication Strategies Apart from Nike selling quality products which have
lead to a high degree of customer loyalty, the promotional strategies should be improved so as to
achieve the goals. The organization is to contract a number of professional and celebrity
sportsman so as to draw a considerable attention to its products. Some of the sportsmen to be
signed by Nike include soccer stars such as Ronaldinho, Ronaldo and Roberto Carlos,
Basketballers such as Jermaine O'Neal and Lebron James2, triathlete Lance Armstrong and golf
superstar Tiger Woods. This will create a relatively high degree of Nike products’ awareness.
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Besides the signing of celebrity sportsmen to promote their products, Nike will also employ a
great deal of advertisements through the mass media and employ a selective- demand
advertisement focused on the high priced shoes used for traditional sports. Nike will also take
advantage of league games to advertise on the media during the course of the games to increase
product awareness. To capture the attention of those who attend these games; Nike will advertise
on billboards mounted in the sports fields. Some potential customers are not interested in
attending games neither are they interested in watching in television but they definitely will
travel or walk along streets; the idea here is ton advertise on electronic billboards mounted along
streets so as to capture their attention.
The internet is also another channel which the company have to exploit so as to reach a larger
number of potential customers. When using this facility; Nike will have to use mass mailing
commonly referred to as spamming by sending advertisements to e-mails of potential customers.
Product promotion will also have to be done through conducting of promotional road shows
which will see offering of prizes to winners after some competition. This will go a long way in
promoting the company’s social responsibility as well as its repute.
5.4 SALES TECHNIQUE
The company sells its products to retail accounts, through its owned retail stores, and through a
mix of independent distributors and licensees, as well as through Internet Web site
‘nikestore.com’. NIKE inc. has major four subsidiaries which are:
Converse Cole
Haan Holdings
Nike Bauer Hockey
Hurley International
5.5 PLACE/DISTRIBUTION
Distribution strategies embraced by an organization can either give them an edge in market or
make them lag behind the winners in the market. The more efficient the product distribution is
the more sales and thus more profits. The delivery of the right product and at the right time to the
consumer not only effects utility but also leads to high degree of consumer satisfaction and
loyalty. Nike distributes its products on level basis. The high priced premium products are given
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to certain distributors while leaving the low priced to be sold at highly discounted prices at mega
retail stores such as Wal-Mart. Whereas Reebok embraced a limited distribution strategy Nike
ventured more into a global market capitalization (Jeannet J, 2000, pp 44).
Summary of marketing strategy
Nike has remained and continues to remain at the top of production and distribution of sports
gear and equipment. However, it should be noted that competitive pressure cannot allow Nike to
‘sleep at the top’. The recent Reebok - Adidas merger poses a great challenge to devise new
marketing strategies to continue leading or recede to oblivion. The following recommendations
are suggested in a situation where marketing management is competent. These include:
Increased market share through a new product development, competent pricing strategies,
advertisement and other sound promotional activities. Restructure market dominance by driving
away competitors mainly through fierce promotional strategy coupled by pricing function that
will make the market quite unattractive for the competitors. Increased social responsibility to
strengthen the image of the company Diversification of market through factoring the Asians and
Black Americans in their product promotion besides doing a research to establish the tastes of
these groups. Venture into new distribution channels especially in international markets.
Different pricing strategy so as to open up a new market segments.
All the above show a competent marketing management can hoist organizations top become
market leaders and making the market leaders maintain their competitive edge in the market
through adherence to marketing ethics, marketing plans and well thought out and formulated
marketing strategies.
6.0 ACTION PROGRAMS
Market research
Pricing
Advertising and promotion
Layout of facilities
Sales
Inventory
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7.0 BUDGET
Projected Marketing activitiesBudget
Market Research
1. Study the buying habits of consumers and determine what factors
motivate their athletic footwear and apparel purchases.
2. Conduct focus groups in targeted markets to get feedback on
existing products, as well as prototypes.
Pricing
1. Determine price points for product offerings that are properly
adjusted for regional buying power, competition, and currency
valuation.
Advertising and Promotion
1. Sponsor regional sporting events for professional, amateur, and
collegiate teams. Include sponsorship of the World Cups
2. Run advertisements in the most popular forms of regional media:
television, newspaper, magazines, billboards, and/or radio.
3. Offer rebates and discounts for certain late-model shoes to
encourage sales and inventory turnover.
4. Conduct fashion shows at top retail venues to display our latest
merchandise offerings to consumers and the media.
$40,000
$80 000
$500 000
$1 000 000
$100 000
$100 000
Location, Newness, and Layout of Facilities
1. Hire independent industrial engineers and analysts to work with
manufacturing facilities in order to maximize efficiency of
operations: shop layout, processes, etc.
$1 000 000
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Inventory
1. Reduce inventory at all levels of production: raw materials, work-in-
process, and finished goods.
2.
Work with 3
rd
party shipping agents to manage the flow of ordersfrom factories to distribution centers.
3. Work with suppliers to implement the next generation of electronic
data interchange (EDI) technology in an attempt to achieve just-in-
time inventory.
$400 000
$1 000 000
$500 000
Focus
1. Shift funding to applied research in "up-and-coming" sports.
Experiment with cutting-edge fashion.
Budget
1. Infuse new funding, in addition to shifting current budgetary
allocations, for researching sports that could be popular in the
future.
$1 000 000
Recruitment and Selection
1. Hire factory workers who express an interest in educational
programs. These employees would achieve the maximum benefit
from educational assistance programs by being more loyal and
productive.
Training and Development
1. Offer general education classes for factory workers who want to
learn how to read, write, or fill any gaps in their childhood
education.
2. Conduct seminars and workshops for supervisors in factories so thatthey may improve their production and management skills.
Compensation
1. Increase salaries of factory workers who are promoted as a result of
completing our educational assistance programs.
$500 000
$300 000
$500 000
$300 000
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In the event that the proposed budget does not suffice to sponsor the required activities; we have
made it flexible enough by setting aside an additional $2 000 000 as reserve.
Management of Accounts Receivable
1. Implement stricter credit terms with retailers to minimize bad debt
expense.
2.
Hire 10 additional employees in the corporate Accounts ReceivableDepartment to maintain and collect aging accounts.
Management of Total Assets
1. Sell non-productive equipment or buildings to reduce depreciation
and maintenance expenses.
Reserve
$400 000
$300 000
$80 000
$2 000 000
Total $10 100 000
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