Originally posted on Housakicks These Nike Air Foamposite One Marroon Gum will have redskins fans going nuts; for the first time in years, i am a little bit excited with a foamposite release. There is no backstory about these shoes but they resonate so well with the redskins logo and uniform colors ( they should have…
Updated September 19th, 2020 ARCH is always shifting. I no longer operate ARCH as a footwear company and the last four years have been a whirlwind of discovery and experiences, both challenging and satisfying. The site has become a source of information and entertainment and my work in business consulting and analysis has grown considerably….
The Nike Air VaporMax pays off the full promise of Air — to provide lightweight, consistent cushioning that lasts. Source: Nike Air VaporMax Reveals the Pinnacle of Air Nike is and will always be a running shoe company. The company was built on the legend of Bowerman’s Men of Oregon and that has never changed….
Gateway to ASICS Company Information, Investor Relations, Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability, Press Releases, Career and Recruitment and more. Source: ASICS Corporate ASICS has been doing a lot lately to bolster its lagging stock. They invested in a digitial fitness platform and they are rebranding the Tiger aspect into ASICS. I never understood why they…
Source: adidas NEWS STREAM : adidas’ BOOST technology powers Aberu Kebede to victory in Berlin Above is a post from adidas about one of their sponsored runners winning a marathon. If you visit any sports company’s website you will find a celebration of the athlete and how their gear inspired them and helped them to…
The tone seems to be changing for Nike. Source: Nike Gets Lackluster Reviews From Experts Ahead of Q1 When I began writing Insider Ties, a lot of the reasons for doing so was because I couldn’t find anyone discussing the actual business aspects of the industry. The stock analysts where looking at it purely from…
Inspired by ’70s New York hip-hop culture and obviously also baseball culture, American luxury brand COACH has dropped its new Patchwork C210 leather high top sneakers for Fall 2016. With its men’s collection having made big steps over the last few seasons, the sneaker offering of COACH is moving at a fast pace as well….
Taking a tougher stance on brand protection, Amazon starts demanding that third-party sellers pay fees and secure approvals from brands Source: brandchannel: Amazon Gets Tough With Third-Party Sellers of ‘Restricted’ Brands For years I’ve looked forward to the holiday sale season. Typically I begin prepping for that time right now in September. I increase inventory…
Source: adidas NEWS STREAM : adidas Originals Announces the Expansion of Sound Labs in Three Major Cities I’ve discussed Nike’s complete dedication to sport as an opening for another brand. Although adidas has been around longer, they are using their relationship with Kendrick Lamar and Reebok to add to their longstanding tradition of combining sportswear…
Source: http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/why-is-under-armour’s-biggest-olympic-star-wearing-nike/ar-BBvKVMq There is a long history of Olympics marketing wars. Starting in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics which were sponsored by Converse, although at the time Reebok was dominating the game and Nike was in the midst of a series of problems that led to a number of layoffs over the next few years, the…
Next Tuesday I have to do an Insider Ties and I think what I will get into is the stream of Flagship Stores popping up from various brands and what this means to Nike. First, what is a flagship store? From Reference.com: The most successful flagship stores share common key elements. Each store is usually the…
I have to give a shout out to my guy Tayib at Housakicks.com who brought Nikes and Jordans on Wal-Mart to my attention a couple of months ago. I had been approached by Wal-Mart in 2015 as part of a beta-test for a Seller Central styled marketplace for Wal-Mart. A few months ago, actually it may…
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Source: NEW BALANCE ST. LOUIS EARTH CITY DISTRIBUTION CENTER OPENS TO SUPPORT GROWTH AND EFFICIENCY OF ECOMMERCE BUSINESS A few weeks back I discussed why mom and pop and other big box retailers were going out of business. (Click here to watch that video and subscribe to my youtube for more talks like this.) Basically…
Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate, love, love, love. Chocolate is love, love is chocolate. (dedicated to my brother Joey Pinkney a self-professed Chocolate addict and writer from Memphis, TN.) This weekend my wife asked me to take a tour. This tour takes place twice a year. Once in the Spring and once in the Fall. Usually I…
That screenshot is the worst!!!! The information though is really good. Take a moment ( a long moment) and listen to this talk show with my guy Tayib of http://www.housakicks.com. We talk about the fake sneaker scandal of Supplied, the TPP and we talk numbers on a new shoe company launch. It’s good stuff!
I took a long time to get to this book and I haven’t done a book review on CBP in a while. This isn’t a book review because I feel that everyone has to find their way to this book and read it. If you’ve read the book, leave a comment and let’s talk about…
I’m doing a lot of cross promoting right now. I originally wrote about this on CBP, but as I begin to connect both CBP and ARCH I thought it was important to bring this post to the sneaker family because the artwork is bananas and familiar. Source: KEHINDE WILEY | Kehinde Wiley Studio My play…
Alright, last year Sons Of Anarchy was ending and (spoiler alert for whatever person didn’t watch Sons) Clay had gotten killed. The show was coming to an end and I was like, “Damn! Ron Perlman aka Beast aka Hellboy aka Clay Morrow is my favorite actor…what the hell am I going to do now?” Low and…
What Nike has done has been written about in books like Just Do It by Donald Katz and Swoosh: Unauthorized Story of Nike and the Men Who Played There, The by J.B. Strasser, which is a book that has insider info on the start of the company. Strasser’s husband was a former insider who went…
Typically, my reviews are less reviewish and more analysis, but what does that matter? They are all pretty informative so what do you expect of this one? Okay, you see the cover? Kid with dark hair, the author’s name has two initials and the last name, the title has a mythical quality and the first…
video from Highsnobiety My thoughts on Kanye and his fashion show: The guy has been in a dark place since his mom died. As an artist everything he’s done has represented that pretty much. Consider that My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy released with a 30 minute movie that showed the destruction of a Phoenix and the…
