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The Curt History of Nike Shoes

By: paul kent

Nike shoes have different styles and colors. They can be worn by whether professionals or daily walkers who like to make a fashion statement. You can easily find Nike stores everywhere. Nike swoosh symbol has been considered as one of the most well-known company logos around the world now.

A student who studied graphic design at Portland State University designed originally the special logo in 1971. They paid the girl only $35 for the fabulous design, but some sources also say that Phil Knight - the co-founder of Nike - later gave her a diamond ring engraved with the logo she designed and an unknown amount of Nike stock. Interestingly, Knight was not very impressed with her work the first time, as what he said, "I don't love it, but it will grow on me."

Today, Nike have employed more than 30,000 people around the world. Nike also provides other sports gear excepts shoes. Under some scrutiny recently for the issues, the company is concerned with human rights and poor working environment. Official statistic shows that Nike has made a net income of approximate $1.9 billion dollars only in 2008. The name Nike comes from the Greek goddess of victory. In fact, Nike also had a humble condition at the beginning, like many other famous companies. All of the original founders are used to be athletes and have been running it for more than 50 years so far.

As a matter of fact, the duo first sold the shoes that a Japanese factory manufactured, but
in very short time they ended the relationship with the Japanese company in 1971. Later, they started to improve their own line of footwear made primarily for football and decided to named for Nike. Soon they developed much more lines of shoes. About 50% of shoes sold in the United States had carried the Nike brand, with the development of technique and management by 1980. But the headquarters of the Nike company still locates in Oregon now and owns several subsidiaries such as Umbro and Converse.

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