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Comparison of Adidas, Nike, and Under Armour Companies
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This paper aims to compare and contrast daily stock price, economic forecast, and revenue of Adidas, Nike, and Under Armour companies and their financial strategic related to athletic departments. This paper also critiques analyzes the marketing plans of these companies and identifies long-time contracts and what benefits these contracts are providing to the athletic department. Nike Inc., Adidas, and Under Armour are the three biggest dealers in the competitive athletic attire business. Despite the fact that the athletic industry is supported by numerous different competitors, Under Armour, Adidas, and Nike are the three of the most prominent. Their apparel is universally worn in a selection of sports clubs, including the NBA. All of these companies have carved out a remarkable market share in an increasing and growing inventive industry. These companies are both in the athletic gear firms. They comprise sportswear for both women and men, making different many items such as shoes, t-shirts, tanks, pants, shorts, and sweatshirts. As the three companies look to digitally change their businesses, Adidas is focusing on a design by opening up its brand to customers and other designers while Nike is more attentive to new materials for its products. On the other hand, Under Armour focuses to make all athletes greater through passion, design, and the relentless pursuit of innovation.
In terms of their history, Adidas was found in 1948. It started in a small town in Bavaria, Germany. Adidas originated from a bitter disagreement between two brothers, Adi Dassler and Rudolph. It has its roots in Germany although it is a truly global company. Adidas headquarter is in Herzogenaurach, Germany. Nike was established as an distributer of Japanese shoes. Its predecessor started in 1964, an invention of the imaginings of Philip H. Knight who was a Stanford University business alumni. It was established in 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports by Bill Bowerman, who was a track-and-field trainer at the University of Oregon, and his former scholar Phil Knight. It is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon. On the other hand, Under Armour is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, and founded by Kevin Plank in 1996. All these companies are players in the profitable market for athletic apparel. Adidas seems to have room for growth while Nike is the giant of the productiveness. Under Armour is a pure growth play.
Adidas boasted a market capitalization of nearly $63 billion as of early November 2020. Alternatively, ADR was valued at $163 per share with a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of over 36 and trailing yearly dividend produce of 1.93%. In comparison, Nike had a market capitalization of approximately $203 billion as of early November 2020. Its share price was more than $129, and its P/E ratio was 76.79. Bonuses were produced at 0.79%. In contrast, Under Armour’s market capitalization was nearly $6.36 billion as of early November 2020 (James & Whitney, 2018). Its stock was trading at around $14 per share. All of these companies have their individual different branding. One thing about Nike is that it has a renewed commitment to female athletes that distinguishes it from Adidas and Under Armour, particularly in the rise of the 2019 Women’s World Cup — it sponsored 14 of the 24 teams. Adidas, Nike, and Under Armour are the most popular athletics footwear brands but Nike dominates the market with a 46 percent share as of 2017. Even though Nike is very strong in footwear, Under Armour is stronger in apparel. Nike has a greater worldwide revenue compared to its leading competitors, Under Armour and Adidas. Just the same as Nike, athletic footwear is the main significant classification for Under Armour and Adidas. In 2019, more than 50 percent of Adidas net trades were made by the footwear category. In 2019, over 50 percent of the Adidas Group net sales were generated by the footwear category.
In 2020 Nike saw a slight revenue dip from $39.1 billion to $37.4 billion in a way that was more than seven times greater than Under Armour’s whole 2019 sales of $5.3 billion (Jaworek & Karaszewski, 2020). Under Armour footwear and apparel sales of $1.2 billion through the culmination of August were edging ahead of Adidas with $1.1 billion overall United States sales, according to a Sterne Agee report (James & Whitney, 2018). Under Armour’s second-quarter net loss extended to 40 cents per share or $182.9 million, from a loss of 4 cents a share or $17.3 million a year earlier. Whereas Adidas was at first recognized as a soccer make, its possession of the other make designations creates it as a varied competitor in athletic goods and apparel. Nike is the leading all over the world. In precise, it upholds the leading market share in the athletic apparel business in North America (Jaworek & Karaszewski, 2020). The firm has made noteworthy efforts in the present years to deal with damaging insights about its labor practices in developing markets. Under Armour winded up a tough 2020. It anticipates simply modest development in earnings per share in 2021 after an entire year revenue deterioration for 2020 that was predictable to be in the high teens.
Under Armour publicized the signing of a contract with Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen for its largest ever, $15 million ad promotion aimed at women. From the contract, Under Armour has become a high-class dealer to teams at the U.S. Naval Academy and Notre Dame, hence expanded into Brazil and made trademarked stores in New York City and China. Under Armour also had a long-term contract with NFL that allowed the brand to be displayed on accessories like gloves during games. Nike also had a contract signed with NFL whereby they decided to extend their partnership for another eight years. From the contract, Nike will continue to supply all 32 NFL teams with sideline apparel and uniform until 2028. On the other hand, Adidas penned a long-term contract with Manchester United in a £750m deal over 10 years. In conclusion, each company has its own financial strategies related to the athletic department.
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James, C. R., & Whitney, K. (2018). Under Armour: repositioning for the global stage. The CASE Journal.
https://doi.org/10.1108/TCJ-06-2017-0055
Jaworek, M., & Karaszewski, W. (2020). The largest athletic apparel, accessories and footwear multinational companies: economic characteristics, internationalization. Journal of Physical Education & Sport, 20.
https://doi.org/10.7752/jpes.2020.s5415
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This article will compare and contrast two articles whose main theme is technology and the effects it has on its users. The two articles in question are, ‘Attached to technology and paying a price’ by Matt Richtel, and ‘the shallows: what the internet is doing to your brain’ by Nicholas Carr. The essay will base its comparison of articles on a number of elements. The first element to be looked at in this comparison is the title of the articles, and whether the articles reflect the content of the rest of the article. The second element has to do with whether the titles have the ability to grab the attention of the readers. Next, the article will examine the topic sentence and deduce whether it is present and appropriately used. Then, the essay will shift its focus to the opening paragraph and find out whether it gives the reader a clear notion of what the contents of the essay are.
Other elements upon which the comparison will be based on include the introduction of the articles and the writing manner of the writers. The essay will find out whether the two authors of the articles use an interesting or an original way to grasp the interest of the readers from the beginning, and then find out whether the introduction of the articles indicate or show the way the paper is organized. Finally, the essay will deduce whether the introductions of the both articles mention both texts in question, including the authors’ names and the article’s titles.
The themes of the two essays are technology, especially media, and how these shape the lives of the users. The two essays have tittles that accurately reflect the contents of the articles. However, the essay by Matt Richtel is the best defined by its title, ‘attached to technology and paying a price.’ The reason behind this conclusion is that the author designed a title that summarizes the contents of the whole article in one title sentence. The title tells of how users of the Internet and other forms of communication technology are attached to these technologies and how these users are paying a huge price for their choices. He gives an example of a user who has become ‘connected to the hip’ with technology, and how he is paying for this choice.
The user says that he forgets and misses things like dinner plans and he even has trouble giving his family attention. His wife has even noticed and complains that her husband ‘seems like he can no longer be fully in the moment’ (Ritchtel 1). This short excerpt and examples from the article show how the author of the article chose a heading that mirrors the article’s contents. The article gives examples of people attached to technology and the implications of this connection on the lives of users, and the title reflects this content perfectly.
On the other hand, the second article title by Nicholas Carr does not quite reflect the contents of the paper. Actually, after perusing the contents of the paper and looking at the title, one can be mislead that title of the paper is misplaced with the wrong content. The content s of the article include such subtitles as ‘the watchdog and the thief’, ‘Hal and me’, ‘a digression’, ‘on what the brain thinks about when it thinks about itself’ and so on. By simply looking at these subtitles and looking at the main title of the article, one can think that title and the content do not fit with each other, or even think that the subtitles and the main title do not belong together.
However, upon deeper reading of the contents of the paper, the connection and fit is found. However, this connection is only realized after digging deeper into the contents of the essay. Further investigation brings the one’s attention to such content as, ‘our focus on a medium’s content can blind is to these deep effects. We are too busy being dazzled or disturbed by the programming to notice what is going on inside our heads’ (Carr 9). This is one of the first reflections of the title sentence in the article, nine pages down the line. The author of this article should have edited his article so that it reflects the contents of his article sooner, or edit it in such a way that the content of the paper rises above the novel techniques he uses to make his point. However, the title still reflects the article’s contents, but in a more complicated manner.
Another element of comparison is whether the titles of the article grab the attention of the readers. The title of the article by Carr is the one I find to be more attention- grabbing than the title of the article by Richtel. Carr’s title is, ‘The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to Our Brains’. This title in a way has a way of grabbing one’s attention. The use of the word ‘Shallows’ is exceedingly captivating especially when one is describing the effects of something. The word ‘shallows’ makes the title of this essay more interesting as it makes one yearn to examine more and discover what these shallows are the Internet is likely to shove someone into. The other title is also not as bad. It is simple and straightforward and anyone seeking information about technology and the effects its likely to impose on users is likely to find it interesting and captivating. However, between the two titles, an individual perusing a magazine or surfing the Internet with no particular interest in the theme, the title by Carr is likely to grab the reader’s attention more than the title by Richtel.
The article, ‘attached to technology and paying a price’ has more clear topic sentence at its beginning when compared to the article, ‘ The shallows: what the internet is doing to our brains’. The first article has a clear sentence topic because its first sentence gives the reader some idea of what the article’s contents. The sentence tells the reader why the subject of the article decided to become attached to technology. The other article, however, does not include a clear topic sentence because its first sentence is irrelevant to the theme of the article. Just as well, the opening paragraph of the article by Richtel tells the reader about what the essay is about. The article by Carr, however, uses an opening paragraph that confuses the reader as to what the contents of the paper are.
The both articles make use of interesting and novel ways to tell their stories. Carr, for instance, uses symbolism, imagery and other grammatical tools to make his story interesting. The subtitles used in the paper are excellent examples of these tools and techniques. The way he tells his story by using examples like The Beetles also is interesting. Richtel also makes use of examples of individuals who make technology their priority and the effects they experience, as a result, to make his story more relevant.
The introductions of the two papers do not give any insights to the organization of the paper. The both authors begin with topic sentences and paragraphs that give more insight to the paper’s contents than to its organization. They also do not mention the titles and the names of the authors and texts in question in the introductions.
Overall, the two articles are expressed in distinct manners to deliver meaning and support to the titles of the articles, and the subject matter of the authors.
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Carr, Nicholas. ‘The Shallows: what the Internet is doing to Our Brains.’ Web. 8 February 2012.
Richtel, Matt. ‘Attached to Technology and Paying a Price.’ The New York Times. Web. 8 February 2012.
Comparison between Texas and California
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The United States of America has a total of 50 states governed under one president. However, every country operates under the legally elected governors who becomes the boss of in charge of almost all activities in the three branches of government (executive, judiciary and legislature). The fact that every State has an elected governor does not mean that they also have similar political structures. For example, California, as a state, have the rights to design their governments in a way different from that of Texas, Nevada, or the Ohio States. Several differences exist, including the reigning political affiliations in each State, which thus determines the representation in the legislative council of every State. This paper is set to compare the political alignments between Texas and California based on reigning parties and the design of their respective federal governments.
Issues facing California
In this state comparative paper, I have chosen California to compare with Texas because of the long distance between them, meaning that there are low chances of borrowing political structures. The second reason is that California is almost equal in size with Texas, and the two States are among the most significant states in the United States of America, thus creating ease of comparison. California, as a country, faces various issues that emanate from different platforms of economy, politics, and society.
Some of the issues include immigration, health care, and homelessness. The State has recorded an approximated number of 10 million immigrants, with around 20% being undocumented ((Matsusaka, 258). The total population in California stands at approximately 39 million. However, research studies provide that up to 3 million residents lack health insurance. The high number leads to the percentage of the uninsured to be below the recommended average of 8.9%. Lack of health insurance also leads to the usage of a lot of individual funds to cater to health care. The current status of California’s homelessness is understood to hit catastrophic extents because up to 100,000 people live on the streets at any given time, a number that represents 25% of the total population.
The policymakers (governor, legislators, and court) in California are doing their level best to curb the issues and provide sufficient statuses to the residents. For example, they have advocated for the building of Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU) to house the homeless. Through the intervention of the policymakers, real estate owners and landlords have come to a consensus to reduce the costs of rents and make houses affordable. Governor Newsom of California has been at the forefront to help deal with immigrant cases (Rodriguez, and Marybeth, 47). He has allocated money, which is used to fund those providing services to the asylum seekers and those providing legal services to the undocumented immigrants. At other times, he proposed that people should provide help in the form of charity to the immigrants. In the medical sector, the governor introduced a Medi-Cal initiative whose role is to help members easily access medical insurance.
California’s vs. Texas’ Political Makeup
In California, the legislative administration is made up of the Big Five, which involves the governor, speaker of the assembly, the assembly minority leader, the minority leader of the Senate, and the senate president pro tempore. The State is considered a home to various political affiliations. However, most of them are supporters of the Democratic Party. The total number of democrats hits 43% percent while the Republicans trail behind with a total of 24%. Unfortunately, some people are not affiliated to any political party, and they make up to 27%, while those supporting other parties constitute 5% ((Hyinks and David, 71). In many years, only the republicans and the democrats have managed to have representative posts in the legislative council. Every registered voter in California is eligible to vote. However, the registration requires that a person must be 18 years of age, a citizen of the United States of America, and a current resident of California. The State also accepts pre-registration as a voter where a person has to be either 16 or 17 years and meet all the other voter requirements. When they celebrate their eighteenth birthdays, they automatically become eligible voters.
Unlike California, which has been dominated by a single party (Democratic Party) for a very long time, Texas has experienced a change of political taste. In some years, Texas was dominated by the Democratic Party. However, the movie has brought their political taste to the Republican Party, which currently dominates the State. Although the Republicans make the current dominance (52%), Texas still contains a good number of the Democrats (41%), which heats the political ground in the State (Eskenazi et al. 749). The remaining percentages include supporters of other parties and those who are not affiliated to any party. All registered voters are eligible to participate in the process. The people who are eligible to register as voters in Texas are American citizens and residents of the particular Texas counties in which they want to vote. They must be 17 years of age with at least ten months and 18 years on the day of voting. The pre-voter registration in Texas is different from that of California as Texas only gives two months to reach the 18th years, while California provides a range of 2 years.
The voter turnout in California is higher than that of Texas. California is ranked among the most tranquil states in which a person can vote. The policies regarding voting are easy to understand and comply with, thus allowing many people to exercise their voting rights. In the 2018 November midterm voting, the turnout in California was 64%, becoming the highest ever number recorded in many decades (Matsusaka, 262). Conversely, the voter turnout in Texas is low because of the problematic voting rules which the lawmakers deem necessary for all the voters. Some of the laws include the voting registration, which must be done 28 days before the exact voting day, and the restriction on the people who can assist in voter registration, among other policies. People always want to exercise their political rights in the form of voting. Therefore, the lawmakers in Texas need to reduce the intensity and complexity of their policies to allow more eligible people to vote.
The Structure and Powers of the Government Institutions
The Government of California is a structure made up of three branches; that is, the executive, the legislature, and the judiciary. Like in all American states, the head of California is a governor. Different people make up the three branches and perform various responsibilities to ensure smooth administration and political and economic stability of the whole State. The executive consists of the governor and all the officers who are either constitutionally elected or appointed to assume various offices (Hajnal, Nazita, and Lindsay, 375). The primary role of the executive branch is administering and enforcing the laws that guide the State. Each of the members of the executive can be elected for a maximum of two terms with each term containing four years. The lieutenant governor is recognized as the president of the Senate in California.
California has a bicameral type of legislative council, which means it contains both the upper and the lower houses. The lower house, which is the California state assembly, comprises 80 members while the upper house (California state senate) has 40 members. Members making up the legislative assembly in both lower and upper houses are elected by and come from different parties. For example, in California, the democratic party claims a supermajority in the legislative council with up to 61 members while the republicans taking 18 positions in the lower house because there exists one vacancy in the assembly (Hyinks, and David, 68). In the upper house, democrats occupy a total of 29 positions while the republicans are claiming only 11 spots. Elections of the members of the lower house are conducted every two years while those of the Senate undertaken per term (4 years) and a person eligible for election for only two terms. The legislative council is charged with the responsibility of making laws regarding public policies and deliberating them to fit the community. Moreover, the council also puts checks and balances to both the judiciary and the executive.
The judiciary/ court system in California is charged with the responsibility of interpreting the laws and policies that govern the State. Besides, this branch of the government provides methods to solve disputes between people, political parties, and organizations, together with electoral cases. The hierarchy of the judicial system runs from the Supreme Court at the apex, followed by the court of appeal (Mank, 211). The California superior courts lie at the primary levels and are situated in all the counties of California. In the election of judges, California applies a revised Missouri Plan, which provides that judges should be nominally elected at the superior levels after a first appointed by the governor. However, at the higher levels, judges are appointed by the governor, although it’s subject to the retention of the elections.
Comparing the Government Structure of California with Texas
Both Texas and California’s governments have similar branches of the executive, legislative council, and the judiciary charged with the same responsibilities. However, several differences identified at various platforms, include the composition and the election of the officeholders in each of the branches. The first difference is on the structure of the executive, which unlike the Californian version, includes the comptroller of public accounts, commissioners of agriculture and land, the attorney general, and representatives from the State Board of Education and the Texas Railroad Commission (Suro, 10). Finally, the executive also contains the secretary of the State. Like in California, the lieutenant governor is the head of the Senate while the governor heads the whole State.
All the members of the executive are elected independently except the secretary of State, hence they are not directly answerable to the governor of Texas. The legislature in Texas also has a bicameral form of ruling with both lower house (House of Representatives) and upper house (the Senate). The lower house has a total of 150 elected members, while the Senate has a total of 31 members. In the whole of the United States of America, Texas’ court system is known to be the most complex among other systems (Janiskee, Ken and Christina, 33). The State has only two courts; that is, the Texas Supreme Court (hearing civil cases) and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (hearing political-related cases). Unlike in California, where the election of judges depends on court levels, members of Texas courts are elected throughout the State except for vacant positions where the governor is eligible to appoint a temporary holder.
The Overall Impression of the Paper
This paper is critical as it identifies the similarities and differences of the political systems in Texas and California. Some of the effects of policies can be gauged and changed based on their performances and acceptability in the areas of application. For example, we have realized the massive difference in voter turnout between Texas and California arising from the tightness of the electoral policies. Therefore, Texas, which is the most affected State should borrow from California to use open and straightforward rules that allows every eligible person to practice their political and democratic rights. The paper also shows that a unitary president rules the United States of America. Still, each of the states has a vital role to perform in ensuring the political structure, economic stability, and the social awareness of the people. California is known for having a higher population of immigrants and the homeless, especially in its city of Los Angeles. The State administration thus needs to borrow some laws and policies from Texas to ensure that the issues two issues and many others are dealt with accordingly.
Conclusion
In essence, California and Texas shoe a more or less similar structure of the governments governing the respective states. Texas is found to be heavily dominated by the Republican Party while California remains a trustee and a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party. Many other differences are spotted on the organization of each of the branches of the government, with Texas having the most complex court system consisting of only two levels, unlike California, which has the apparent scheme. Both Texas and California face some issues (electoral policies in Texas and economic problems in California), which should make them borrow strategies from each other to create a foundation for a better place.
Works CitedEskenazi, Brenda, et al. “Association of perceived immigration policy vulnerability with mental and physical health among US-born Latino adolescents in California.” JAMA pediatrics (2019). 744–753
Hajnal, Zoltan, Nazita Lajevardi, and Lindsay Nielson. “Voter identification laws and the suppression of minority votes.” The Journal of Politics 79.2 (2017): 363-379.
Hyinks, Benard L., and David H. Provost. “Voters, Nominations and Elections.” Politics and Government in California, 17th ed., Pearson Education Inc., 2015, pp. 65-79.
Janiskee, Brian P., Ken Masugi, and Christina G. Villegas. Democracy in California: Politics and Government in the Golden State. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019.25- 45
Mank, Bradford C. “State Standing in United States v. Texas: Opening the Floodgates to States Challenging the Federal Government, or Proper Federalism.” U. Ill. L. Rev. (2018): 211.
Matsusaka, John G. “Ballot order effects in direct democracy elections.” Public choice 167.3-4 (2016): 257-276.
Rodriguez, Jason M., and Marybeth Shinn. “Intersections of family homelessness, CPS involvement, and race in Alameda County, California.” Child abuse & neglect 57 (2016): 41-52.
Suro, Roberto. “California dreaming: The new dynamism in immigration federalism and opportunities for inclusion on a variegated landscape.” Journal on Migration and Human Security 3.1 (2015): 1-25.