Under Armour: Competitor Analysis: Nike And Adidas

Nike and their Just Do it slogan is one that is very known throughout the world. Nike is a fortune 500 company. Nike is a major company in sporting products and has put a lot of time in developing the company reputation in reliable and good quality. Nike is very smart in marketing their products to the general public. They use all types of methods to get the company to attract consumers. Nike spend a lot of money on marketing and creating products. Nike has created products with high quality in almost every sport around the global. Nike boosted their credibility and reliability, by manipulated uses of Ethos, Logos and lastly Pathos.

The Under Armour brand has positioned itself in the high quality, high price, and best available in the market, category. It advertises itself as delivering higher customer value and is therefore capable of charging higher prices for their goods. With this Under Armour therefore is unable to use cost leadership as a means of attracting consumers but rather must turn to differentiation of product. Under Armour is able to differentiate itself from other apparel companies by the use of synthetic material in the production of its clothing and

In the section of R&D, Nike has a major capability and it includes the core competencies in the R&D section. The company heavily focuses and invests in staffing specialist to enhance and improve their products performance. In addition, the marketing section of Nike has an important core competency and a competitive advantage in being able to market its products. Other competitors might have the resources to contest but they don’t have the ability to use them appropriately.

Nike is the market leader of sports footwear and apparel industry. Nike ‘s high-performance athletic gear is mostly targeted at professional athletes in categories such as soccer, basketball, running and etc. Nowadays, teenagers and young adults who participate in fitness activities are also targeted largely in sales strategies.

Consistence of player success: Sales volume of Under Armour’s basketball shoe is highly consistent with Stephen Curry’s success. Therefore, if he couldn’t keep that rating, the revenue of UA Curry 2 is probably going to decrease, even though he is young rising player. In fact, whole sale of the product is extremely relevant to only one player’s performance.

Nike’s have maxims to help Nike employees to create better products and provide better services for the customers. Henceforth creating better customer value compared to companies.

The first Converse All Star shoes was made in the middle 1900 as a shoes for basket ball players. In the 1920 Chuck Taylor turned into the representative for Converse and for the following couple of decades the Converse tennis shoes was the main shoes in basket ball. During the 1960 to 1970 the tennis shoes started to move from games footwear to easygoing footwear and turned into an image for the cheap and grime cultures. after sometime converse launch the denim ,t-shirts cap and everything related to sports. and they got success as well but they continue with their same design so after some time all people avoid the brand product because there is a huge competition in the market because lots of company 's available to compete for example Nike, Adidas, puma ,Reebok ,etc these are the company 's they always change their product with the fashion. so there is a big opportunities for converse from these companies. because now a days all people not buy alder fashion product. so converse have to change their policy to stable in the current market. And change their design with the change of fashion.

Marketing is collaborating the value of a product, service or brand to customers, as a driving force to promote or sell that product, service or brand.Marketing procedures and skills embrace selecting target markets by carrying out a market analysis and market segmentation, as well as taking into account the consumer behavior and advertising a products value to customers. Marketing is the utmost vital aspect of developing and enlarging your business, and is a speculation that will recompense for itself over and over again.

This is analysis looks at the sales, profits, assets and market value of each company and based on their individual success each company is ranked. As each of these companies begin to diversify from their initial product and target market competition intensifies between. For example Nike and Adidas are in direct competition with each other as both provide branded sports gear but each are beginning to move into producing less sport orientated clothing

Nike is the leading and renowned world supplier of athletic apparel and shoes. The brand is in control of over 47% of the market for athletic shoes. The company begun way back in 1962 and it was founded by Phil Knight and Bill Bower. It was originally known as Blue Ribbon Support and only in 1978 did it change its name to the worldwide recognized brand, Nike. Nike provides its products to more than 100 countries throughout the world.

Nike has a company who use the low cost manufacturing for production footwear. All of the Nike’s footwear virtually is manufactured outside of the United States by independent contract manufacturers such as Vietnam, China and Indonesia. Nike was operate multiple factories around the worlds. In 2014, Vietnam, China, and Indonesia manufactured roughly about 43%, 28%, and 25% of total Nike branded footwear and it has also operations in other country such as Argentina, Brazil, India, and Mexico. The low cost of producing products in these countries continues to boost the bottom line.

An advantage of how Nike uses this strategy is that it allows them to boost their profit by selling differentiated products and Nike have other products that will compensate for products that fails in the market. The difference between Nike and its competitors is that Nike produces their products for men, women, and children in different ways based on the basis needs, physiology, preference of design, and the trends in the market. However, the biggest threats to Nike’s market is the stiff competition with the other sports brands that sell similar products, which causes Nike to continuously come out with new products with new technologies and better

PUMA, K-Swiss Inc., LaCrosse Footwear, Inc., Dick 's Sporting Goods, Inc., New Balance Athletic Shoe and Adidas – (Adidas have currently branched out into customization of footwear products. To sustain its competitive advantage over competitors, Nike has to take this to consideration). However, a large number of competitors in an industry usually indicates lots of demand for the products or services provided and this will help Nike to succeed in the long run.

The technique used by the company, moisture-wicking fabrics is designed to accommodate different climates. After beginning to use high innovative textile for the sports apparel, the company observed an increase in sells which made it well known to sell globally from the North American market. Presently, Under Armour targets a wide range of customers with a business strategy to take over the sportswear apparel market. The distribution channel of Under Armour products is via wholesales and retails. Despite the fact that Under Armour is quite a small firm in relation to its major competitors, Nike, Adidas, Columbia Sportswear, and SportHill; the company has the aura of products being loved by athletes at all sporting levels. The main reason for this preference from various customers is because the style and designs are very technological, modern and active. Therefore, the main argument of this case is to analyze how the company’s business strategy can help to maintain the competitive grounds with other high end sporting

The trademark of Nike which mean naɪki in US and also known as naɪk for the non-US. The Nike is established on 25 January 1964 by Bill Bower man and Phil Knight. The Nike, Inc company became officially in 30 May 1971. It is a multinational corporation that involved design, development, manufacturing and worldwide marketing and selling of footwear, apparel, equipment, accessories and services. Many high level or elite athletes and sport teams in the worldwide sponsored by Nike with some famous or global trademark such as ‘just do it’. The Nike Company more focus on Brand Jordan and Nike Brand product offerings in few key categories such as running, basketball, football, men and women training, NIKE sportswear, and action sports. When 1980s, Nike encompass many sports and regions throughout the world by expanded its product line. In 1990, Nike moved into its