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Team Sweat is "an international coalition of consumers, investors, and workers committed to ending the injustices in Nike’s sweatshops around the world" founded in 2000 by Jim Keady. While Keady was researching Nike at St. John’s University, the school signed a $3.5 million deal with Nike, forcing all athletes and coaches to endorse Nike.
It is the world's largest supplier of athletic shoes and apparel and a major manufacturer of sports equipment, with revenue in excess of US$46 billion in its fiscal year 2022. [ 6 ][ 7 ] The company was founded on January 25, 1964, as "Blue Ribbon Sports", by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight, and officially became Nike, Inc. on May 30, 1971.
TFG Limited. TFG Limited, also known as The Foschini Group (pronounced as "Voesjienie" in Afrikaans), is a South African JSE listed retail clothing group, which trades under various brands and has more than 3,000 stores within its portfolio. [ 3] It is headquartered in Parow East near Cape Town . In 2015, the company acquired the British ...
Air Jordan is a line of basketball shoes produced by Nike, Inc. Related apparel and accessories are marketed under Jordan Brand.. The first Air Jordan shoe was produced for basketball player Michael Jordan during his time with the Chicago Bulls on November 17, 1984 and released to the public on April 1, 1985.
Sweatshop. A sweatshop or sweat factory is a crowded [ 1] workplace with very poor or illegal working conditions, including little to no breaks, inadequate work space, insufficient lighting and ventilation, or uncomfortably or dangerously high or low temperatures. The work may be difficult, tiresome, dangerous, climatically challenging, or ...
The first Nike store opens in downtown Portland. Nike opens its world headquarters in unincorporated Washington County, just west of Portland, on 74 acres (0.3 km 2) of land. 1993 Nike introduces Reuse-A-Shoe, which collects athletic shoes, Nike wins Advertiser of the Year at the Cannes Advertising Festival.
Project Nike (Greek: Νίκη, "Victory") was a U.S. Army project, proposed in May 1945 by Bell Laboratories, to develop a line-of-sight anti-aircraft missile system. The project delivered the United States' first operational anti-aircraft missile system, the Nike Ajax, in 1953. A great number of the technologies and rocket systems used for ...
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 [ A 1] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and a major conflict of the Cold War. While the war was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam, the north was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other ...