An organisation's strategy is the action plan for beating its rivals and accomplishing better benefits through activities like additional sales and by means of more execution elements, more attractive design, better quality or more product range. The objective is to accomplish the upper hand of outcompeting rival on the premise of differentiation features, for example, higher quality, more wider item determination, added presentation, value added services, more tempting styling, and mechanical superiority (Thompson, 5). The Under Armour brand is situated as the most noteworthy quality and best accessible. Under Armour is publicised as higher quality and can appreciate the benefit of higher value focuses. Their new running shoe line will be …show more content…
Under Armour is diversifying by selling new products to existing customers. It just recently started selling football cleats, which was a huge opportunity for the company and it also turned out to be very successful so far. The company also is focusing on direct-to-consumer categories: online sales and outlet and specialty stores, which are expected to represent nearly a third of Under Armour's distribution channels by 2013, and in international markets, with new store openings planned this year in China. Under Armour is also trying to expand by introducing more products for women. There have been various new advertisements featuring women with the slogan, "No matter what, sweat every day." The campaign has received much appreciation and the women's sneaker division is taking off. Under Armour is just starting to expand abroad which is the biggest growth strategy which also includes handling competition. So far Under Armour has established a solid hold in USA and Europe is a big opportunity for expanding. By expanding in Europe the company tries to gain some market share from Nike which is its largest competitor. Under Armour began a five-year deal as the uniform sponsor of the English Premier League club. From a market point of view, Under Armour has been very focused on the United States and this is the largest media effort it has undertaken in Europe. Currently, Under Armour has full uniform sponsorship deals with 3 teams and 4 individual endorsements in Europe. This is positive for Under Armour and there is a lot to take on, which is why the company can't focus too much on the sustainability issue. Under Armour has just gotten into the global market and its international sales are only about 5% of total revenues so its main concern is to keep gaining more market share. Under Armour deals with the competition in the market
Under Armour faces a twofold challenge, in the product and market area. Their heritage product category was compression Heat-Gear, and Nike the major competitor, was planning to take control of the new customers generations by creating a whole new line called Nike’s Pro Combat. Besides that, the marketing side was also having struggles. Since Nike created a strategy in which a strong emotional connection with customers was developed. This would have as repercussion the displacement of the Under Armour brand and therefore the slow decline of the company.
1. Introduction Under Armour, Inc. (Under Armour) is a leading sports apparel and equipment manufacturing company founded in 1996 by Kevin Plank, a 23-year-old former University of Maryland football player.. He revolutionized the sports apparel industry by creating a superior, moisture-wicking, performance T-shirt, made of synthetic fabrics. Under his leadership, the company grew from a 17,000-dollar business in 1996 to a 4.83-billion-dollar empire. 2.
Nowadays, teenagers and young adults who participate in fitness activities are also targeted largely in sales strategies. Competitors Analysis The popularity of various sport activities and changing design trends affect the demand for products. Nike compete internationally with athletic and leisure footwear companies, sports equipment companies such as adidas, Puma, Li Ning, Under Armour for the direct competitors. There are also indirect competitors such as Bata, VNC, etc.
2.0 Competitor Analysis The industry that Under Armour is involved with is extremely competitive, with competing against big names such as Nike or Adidas. Although it’s hard at the beginning, but customers want to have the highest quality apparel therefore they turn to Under Armour. Under Armour stays in the competition by having high quality products, and also by signing endorsements deals with major athletes (Owusu, 2017). By having major athletes represent Under Armour, means the company will be bringing in "big money" because they will bring up the brand’s popularity. The major competitors in this industry are of course inclusive of big names such as Adidas, Nike, Dick’s Sporting Goods and Puma.
Nike has sustained positive revenue in a worldwide market focusing on a healthy and active lifestyle. For the past 3 years Nike has gained a gross profit ratio of 8.73% in fiscal of 2013, 10.28% in fiscal of 2012, and 8.28% in 2011 . Thus showing the financial power Nike has, well the firm holds a net income of 2.5 billion in the fiscal year of 2013. Nike’s largest product category is footwear, representing over 55% of the companies revenue. Nike uses their financial resources ability to obtain large advertising plots, whether it is a commercial on television, advertisements on the Internet, or product promotion in athletic facilities.
Company Description Nike believes diversity and inclusion drives innovation that lead to a competitive advantage. Nike has a broad base of suppliers that actively and significantly support their business requirements. Nike’s Global Procurement team manages the procurement process, including selecting and contracting with the right suppliers for the right goods and services. They have also begun to reduce Nike 's footprint and lessen their impact.
Nike has managed to shift their Manufacturing unit into Asian country’s were the labor is cheap to be exact wages of USD1 an hour were so little as one-tenth of those given in the US. No wonder that a pair of shoes which were sold for $150 in 1991 is made by indoasian women who were 58 cents a day but the situation has started to change and due to that reason the company has managed to minimize cost of production and not only double triple the the revenue as comparing to the year 1996. Finally we come up with promotion and advertising campaigns which became a grand success not only because they introduced sportspersons , they also introduced innovative ideas and wise strategies and the image of the Product, due to this process we can say that Nike targeted a huge no of audience and created a Prestigious brand which will be easily available for average people . they also came up with great tag lines such as ‘there is no finish life’ , and in the 1980 they changed it into “ JUST DO IT “ these quotes of tag lines are considerd very simple but very attracting and extremely encouraging for the customers .
The Mini Case manifests that Nike’s core competency is to create heroes. Nike spends over $1 billion per year sponsoring athletes, and transfer its brand image via celebrity effect. Nike sponsoring athletes who with huge potential, or even from disadvantaged backgrounds (Rothaemel, 2015). Those people’s success stand for “impossible to possible”, Nike impressing its customers that everyone can become a hero by these inspiring stories. From 1976 to 1983, Nike focused on product innovation, and launched the Air shoe which significantly contributed to a reversal in declining sales.
The strength of high price product strategy is that Nike can earn more on each single item. Also, it can ensure the quality of the products. The low-priced products policy could widen the customer group and attract more buyers to boost the sales. The weakness of selling premium is that only high-end buyers could afford to buy it.
Mission and vision The Adidas Group pursues to be the leader in the sporting goods industry across the world with brands built on a passion for sports and a sporting lifestyle. For this purpose they always try to increase their brands and products to improve their competitive position. Adidas is continuously committed to the customer focus service with new innovation and design, and
This is due to Nike gets its merchandise generally from foreign manufacturers. To operate profitably, Nike need to get good value on products and supplies and, in turn, offer good value to its customers with accessible solutions. Publics: Many colleges and universities, especially anti-globalization groups as well as several anti-sweatshop groups
Simply put, Nike’s target market is mainly customers who have more concern for the quality and utility of the product than they have for the price at which the product is being sold. This helps to ensure that pricing never has to be adjusted downwards in attempts to woo in a larger number of customers. For any company to achieve success from the marketing strategies that it has put in place, it has to ensure that its strategy is flexible enough to keep up with the changing times and to also accommodate a large variety of customers. So as to do this, it is imperative that the products being produced by the company be innovative enough to exceed what is being provided by competitors in every possible way. Nike chose to take this into deep consideration and this resulted in it making a few changes on its marketing strategy.
Consequently, Nike’s pricing is intended to be economical and competitive to the other sport gear retailers. The pricing is built upon many factors that have been taken into consideration before setting a selling price on the root of the high-class segment as target customers. Nike as a brand orders high premiums. Nike’s pricing strategy makes use of perpendicular amalgamation in pricing in which they target participants with different channel levels or take part in more than one type of channel level operations. This can govern costs and effect product
A new competitor whose sell the footwear of leisure and fashion . 0.05 2 0.1 Total Score 1 2.25 Justification of Nike key external factors. Opportunities 1st
Starting as just a mail-order business with some retailers, it quickly opened new manufacturing facilities, starting with New England in the early 1980s as well as it signed contracts with other international distributors. While producing at lower costs outside the US, New Balance sold its shoes at a higher price than the average market and started to have huge sales anyways. Moreover, what makes New Balance’s operation strategy unique is that they offer their shoes in multiple widths and always have inventory in case the retailers get out of stock. This supports directly two of New Balance’s main competitive objectives being first that they want their customers to feel uniquely served by offering several widths of their shoes for different kind of feet and letting the customer not wait for the delivery of the shoes but always having inventory to push into the retail stores in case of scarcity. A good customer experience is one of their key competitive