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Nike has responded to growing pushback from female athletes who have condemned the company for using transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney in an advertisement featuring sports bras and leggings.
Nike, Inc. [note 1] (stylized as NIKE) is an American athletic footwear and apparel corporation headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon. [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.
Nike, Inc. has been accused of using sweatshops and worker abuse to produce footwear and apparel in East Asia. After rising prices and the increasing cost of labor in Korean and Taiwanese factories, Nike began contracting in countries elsewhere in Asia, which includes parts of India, Pakistan, and Indonesia.
The shoe first emerged as the Vaporfly Elite and was worn by Kenyan athlete Eliud Kipchoge on May 6, 2017 during Breaking 2 - an attempt to break 2 hours in a marathon - on the Monza racing track in Italy. The shoe was then released to the general public as the Vaporfly 4%. In 2018, Nike released a second iteration called the Vaporfly 4% Flyknit.
Teenagers are unlooping the zipper pulls on peers’ Nike Elite backpacks, which retail for $87, stealing them for their own collections or reselling them back to theft victims at lofty prices.
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Although Nike started aggressively advertising towards women in the 1990s, they were not the first athletic company to promote their products towards women. According to Shelly Lucas's article, "Nike's Commercial Solution: Girls, Sneakers, and Salvation", "In 1981, Reebok, one of Nike's competitors in the athletic shoe industry, chose to make ...
Nike stock sank more than 6% on Wednesday after the company reported fiscal first quarter revenue that missed estimates and withdrew its outlook for the year amid a CEO transition.The shoe giant ...