Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University
Team NIKE Incorporation
GEB 1440
Professor L. White
Genesis Lopez
Rayvon Casamayor
Kardel Hamilton
Alfred Henderson
Demetrius Bradwell
Philip H. Knight, a Stanford University student, founded Nike in 1972. In ancient Greek mythology, “Nike” referred to the winged goddess of victory, symbolizing ‘honored conquest’ on the battlefield. Their main purpose of creating such mythical products was to help world’s greatest athletes find new levels of achievement, and to also create a new realm of athleticism for average individuals. Nike assures that each customer’s wish, needs, cravings, demands, and desires are taken care of. This guarantees that the customer’s wants are communicated by their willingness to buy their products. Nike’s marketing strategy is one of the main sources of their success. Their idea behind this incredible strategy is to get the best athletes in the world to endorse their product. People all around the world want Michael Jordan’s shoes, the want shoes worn by Tiger Woods, Lebron James, etc… Their store layout, segmentation, and mythical ideas promise customer purchases. The design of the Nike Store exploits usual in-store techniques to increase the chance of customer purchases. Each sport is given its own section, which is organized by product-type and color. It is made to show that there are tiny stores in one larger store. This is also accomplished by the wall and floor color schemes, which also changed depending on the sport shown. Segmentation serves 3 main purposes such as: belief of having different clothing for each sport, creating space that appeals to the imagination, and to create a maze-like atmosphere. These strategies are all intertwined with microeconomics, and the way Nike’s products affect each individual customer’s choices. Nike appears as a customer’s number one choice, which enables them to choose Nike over any other brand.
A microeconomic law states that, all other factors being equal, as the price of a good or service increases, consumer demand for the good or service will decrease and vice versa. This is the Law of Demand. Every company has to go through some sort of inverse relationship just as this. The equilibrium price and quantity at Nike Inc is very important to their sales. The equilibrium price is at 10 whereas the quantity is at 15. There are also chances where the prices are constant and the other variable of the prices vary. When their supply increases with the increase in price, the supply curve shifts to the right. Then prices will be enforced to decrease due to pressure that is on the quantity supplied without a fair increase in demand. Then again, if the demanded quantity increases without a decrease in price, then the prices will be forced to rise.
Another microeconomic law states that all other factors being equal, as the price of a good or service increases, the quantity of goods or services offered by supplier’s increases and vice versa. This is the Law of Supply, and it means that when the prices increase, the willingness of the supplier to supply increases also. For example, Nike definitely uses the law of supply and demand in marketing their Air Jordan’s. Resellers boost the sale, which in turn boosts the demand, which in turn boosts the supply. Michael Jordon only produces a certain amount of Air Jordan’s a year, and this amount is very scarce. Which means that the prices for them increase.
The change in demand and or supply becomes microeconomic relationship market demand, which is the level of individual demands in the market for a product: the level of desire for all people in the market for the product. Demands from the United States, which have improved over a course in time, were of products such as apparel and running gear. United States is the largest country that holds the largest percentage in purchasing Nike apparel. Some products that can be expected by demand are Nike apparel for both men and women, and Pro Combat football gear. Because Nike has had exposure at Olympics and such sports regionally it has opened opportunities for everyone in regional and global markets. Since Nike has been shown and advertised, it has made an increase in market demands for fashionable athletic footwear and apparel. To make it possible the market has to formulate a plan that will increase their profits by taking risks and going off the market demands.
Nike can be implied with microeconomics market equilibrium because this is the period where the market is at a balance when supply equals demands, at an agreeable price upon buyers and sellers. Because Nike is such a high priced brand, it is most likely to undergo a supply demand. Nike as encountered a problem whereas their supplies where demanded by such stores Footlocker, whom awaits deliveries of new released shoes, gear and apparel. Though Nike has been at a market equilibrium that counts for them providing supplies to the market and the demands needs have been met.
Having a celebrity or most important to Nike, a well-known athlete to wear their apparel and gear show the industry they mean business. Because they began on a track and field bases, Nike has shifted to basketball, football, golfing, and so many more sports but have done it well. Which brings us to microeconomics relationship Utility. This relationship shows how they protect the Nike brand. It is defined as the amount of satisfaction received from consuming a product or service. If the product has been around since 1972 and with technology advancement, it speaks for itself that they have the customer satisfaction that they need. Track runners who have been using Nike products and shoes are in for new shoes that are to be more lightweight in allowing the runners to feel bare feet, they are called lightweight Lunar Glides. The demands for new and improved products are speaking alone. When an athlete is endorsed or does a commercial advertising the Nike Inc brand, they are portraying the satisfaction they get is from wearing or using that Nike product.
Essential relationship Scarcity pinpoints the fact that it is limited resources. Which can be look in a way that there is limited resources in the face of unlimited wants. Not saying that Nike has limited resources but customers who want the best quality sometimes can’t afford the price. It is crucial at points in time when there are wants that can’t be met.
Some factors that might affect the GDP of Nike are the activities over a time period.Determining the relative value of an amount of money in one year compared to another is more complicated than it seems at first. There is no single “correct” measure, and economic historians use one or more different indicators depending on the context of the question.Most indices are measured as the price of a “bundle” of goods and services that a representative group buys or earns. Over time the bundle changes; for example, carriages are replaced with automobiles, and new goods and services are created such as apparel and sneakers.
The Gross domestic product is the gross domestic product of final goods and services produced with factors of production in a given period within a country’s border. GNPis the market value of final goods and services produced in a given time period by a country’s citizens. whether or not the are produced inside the country. Gross domestic product =consumption .
It is generally believed that micro level organizational performance in general and business level performance in particular is difficult to improve in business in view of the Nike’s macroeconomic performance. While external factors do influence organizational and business performance, it is the cumulative impact of micro-level organizational and business performance that also feeds into the macro level performance. Due to this intertwined relationship, all responsibility for dismal micro level performance cannot be assigned to the macro economy. For, the macro economy too will be as weak or as strong as its micro constituents are. So, while the macro economy does require sound management, the micro constituents too need to be managed according to the modern principles of management that include anticipation and a response to external factors in general and economic factors in particular as an essential component of organizational management.
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