Find PUMA Clyde Court Men’s Basketball Shoes and other Mens Basketball at us.puma.com. Source: Clyde Court Men’s Basketball Shoes | Puma Black-ELECTRIC PURPLE | PUMA Basketball | PUMA United States I was in a store today and a guy walked in with Puma on from head to toe. The guy had his young son with…
(My thoughts are placed in the parenthesis) Nike’s unrivaled scale allows for over indexing, while delivering expanded profitability. CDO is redefining shareholder value. Nike Inc increased 10% due to acceleration in North America Nike Direct grew 12% and Nike Digital grew 34% Digital outpaced all channels. Tax rate 14% As of August inventory is flat….
Source: NEXT WAVE: INTRODUCING PRO BOUNCE & MAD BOUNCE FOR THE NEXT GENERATION While the obvious fact that basketball shoes no longer dominate footwear sales would lead many analysts and observers to overlook adidas basketball’s latest shift to the sport it seemed they had basically given up on when they gave up sponsorship of the…
Source: Basketball Shoes Q4 has done the easy part, they made kicks. While most people think that the hardest aspect of creating a sneaker company is designing and getting the product from the assembly to the warehouse, the reality is that’s the fun part. The brand has also made inroads with professional athletes which gives…
Source: @WeGotGame2 :: i c o n . Collection So yesterday I was in the midst of another rant about failed marketing opportunities from established sneaker brands because Reebok launched a Victoria Beckham x Reebok x Shaq pre-order collab. The pack consisted of tee shirts and sweatshirts. The cost of a tee? $140.00 dollars. At…
Nike movement specialists worked with kids to understand their unique biomechanics. Those insights led to the Nike Future Speed running shoe and Nike Future Flight basketball shoe, available July 1 on nike.com. Source: Nike’s Future Series Rethinks Sneaker Innovation for Young Athletes Nike has such an endless amount of capital they can attempt a number…
photo via Soccer365 In 2014 Nike grew soccer sales to 2.4 Billion which rivaled the brand sales in basketball and equaled adidas’ sales in soccer. 2014 just so happens to be the year the World Cup took off like a rocket in North America. I remember sitting in my office across the street from…
The Top Selling Shoes List for Q1 2018 was released. This list is only compiled by one company and as such it lends itself to a lack of explanation as the company seeks to gain consulting opportunities based on the data. What happens is there is never a why listed and rightfully so, people have…
At least once a month I write something in regard to K-Swiss giving all of their power to Gary Vee in order to establish themselves as the shoe of the entrepreneurial movement. I bring that up because the first sponsor of American Ninja Warrior during the early seasons was K-Swiss. The big shield can…
The NFL wants to punish kneeling as a form of protest so you can celebrate Tom Brady, but overlook Josh Brown beating his wife and overlook regular Black people being brutalized by crappy cops, on the same day that video of NBA player Sterling Brown getting tased is shown… okay I write on this site…
Project + Exec is a new series where I’ve decided to seek out footwear executives who are minorities (Black, Latino, Indian, Native American, Asian men and women) who are doing some dope work, but are being overlooked by the larger media outlets. It’s my small part. I really hope you look more into the brands and…
Shop Under Armour for Men’s UA Curry 5 Basketball Shoes in our Men’s Basketball Shoes department. Free shipping is available in US. Source: Men’s UA Curry 5 Basketball Shoes | Under Armour US What Apple has long understood is that the launch of a product requires showmanship and a connection not only to the product,…
The sneaker market is also failing to understand the shift in demographics of “sneakerheads” and they are excluding the market that invented the term and still participates in it. I wrote this quote in response to an analyst who constantly states that sneakerheads are a niche group who exist in an echo chamber. That analyst…
adidas has a right to be excited about their double digit growth in the US. Their growth is also impressive in the international markets specifically Asia Pacific. While any growth is a positive, the reality is that if you take a team in basketball who goes 4-20 in one year and the following year they…
Source: StephIQ Alright, before you begin browsing and looking everywhere for C2UA, I made it up. I tend to do this with brands when I’m discussing something that the brand has failed to give a name to. Before Nike developed CDO (Consumer Direct Offense) I described it using the generic DTC title which began showing…
See the inspiring stories of athletes who refused to be denied. Our top training shoes and workout clothes help fuel their unstoppable will. Source: Will Finds A Way | Under Armour I wrote a post a month ago that was more of the same when it came to analyzing the issues with people being drawn…
picture via the Commercial Appeal and Mark Weber (Penny Hardaway with his former high school teammate Elliot Perry who also played 9 years in the NBA) Penny has been away from the NBA for ten years. In that time he’s won championships from middle school to high school and AAU as a head coach. His…
NIKE, Inc. (NYSE:NKE) today reported financial results for its fiscal 2018 third quarter ended February 28, 2018. Source: NIKE, Inc. Reports Fiscal 2018 Third Quarter Results The most interesting aspects of today’s report beyond what happened earlier in the day with the sell off of shares by Pershing Square: Pershing Square Cashes Out with 100…
Matt Pauk, Senior Footwear Designer Nike Nike has leveled a full on assault against every brand in footwear. This is both good and bad. The amount of product Nike is releasing requires an abundance of coverage just to keep up with the drops being delivered. This takes away from smaller brands attempting to gain…
Originally posted on Housakicks I was trying to analyze the current market value of the Nike PG2 Playstation and I had nothing to work with. What I mean is I couldn’t find a sizable amount of sales data on the shoes to build a case. The only thing I could find was a total of three…
It’s the first running shoe to feature Nike’s latest foam technology that’s designed to cushion the impact of each stride and offer the energy return needed to stay fresh late in a run. It will be available February 22. Source: Meet the Nike Epic React Flyknit In October of 2017 Nike laid down a…
Originally posted on Housakicks Chris from ARCH and I have been talking a lot about how Nike Basketball is “Dead”; what we are basically saying is that signature shoes are just not selling well anymore. Chris made a very good observation about the young teenagers of this day and age; talking about them, Chris said, these…
