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The Nike Worldwide Headquarters is the global headquarters for Nike, Inc., located in an unincorporated area of Washington County near Beaverton, Oregon, in the United States. The campus has more than 75 buildings on 286 acres, as of 2018. [1]
Nike, Inc. [note 1] (stylized as NIKE) is an American athletic footwear and apparel corporation headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, United States. [6] 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.
The first Nike lab opened in 1980 in Exeter, New Hampshire. [1] The 16,000-square-foot (1,500 m 2) Sport Research Lab is located in the Mia Hamm building at the company's headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. [2] The Nike campus spans a total of 213 acres (9,300,000 sq ft) on the west side of the Portland metropolitan area.
1962 Phil Knight visits Onitsuka Tiger in Kobe, Japan, and pitches the idea of selling their shoes in the U.S. When asked the name of his company, Knight comes up with one on the spot: Blue Ribbon ...
In June 2015, Knight and Nike announced that he would step down as the company's chairman, with president and CEO Mark Parker to succeed him. [31] [32] Knight's retirement from the Nike board took effect at the end of June 2016. In September 2017, Knight decided to come out of retirement to put black back in the UNC jerseys for the Phil Knight ...
Nike has a new return-to-office strategy: telling employees to “just do it.” The sportswear brand recently announced that it is moving the needle on its in-office mandate from three to four ...
Hill has followed Nike’s directive to “just do it” and become the sports retailer’s newly-minted CEO. In 1988, Hill joined the company as a 19-year-old intern in apparel sales. He spent ...
Nike wins Advertiser of the Year at the Cannes Advertising Festival. Nike enters the ice hockey market after acquiring Canstar, the parent company of hockey equipment manufacturer Bauer Hockey. Nike had only made hockey jerseys, specifically those of the Edmonton Oilers at the height of Wayne Gretzky-mania, but now began to make all equipment.