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Adolf "Adi" Dassler (3 November 1900 – 6 September 1978) was a German cobbler, inventor and businessman who founded the German sportswear company Adidas.He was also the younger brother of Rudolf Dassler, founder of Puma.
The West German team defeated the favorites, Hungary, and won its first World Cup. As a result, Adidas received positive international coverage. Adidas was able to get a hold in the international shoe market and grow faster and become bigger than Puma. [7] [8] In the 1970 World Cup, Puma won the business battle. [3]
After his return from World War I, Adolf Dassler, Rudolf's younger brother, started to produce sports shoes in his mother's kitchen. His father, Christoph, who worked in a shoe factory, and the brothers Zehlein, who produced the handmade spikes for track shoes in their blacksmith's shop, supported Adolf in starting his own business.
It is the largest sportswear manufacturer in Europe, and the second largest in the world, after Nike. [5] [6] It is the holding company for the Adidas Group, which also owns an 8.33% stake of the football club Bayern Munich, [7] and Runtastic, an Austrian fitness technology company. Adidas's revenue for 2018 was listed at €21.915 billion. [3]
The sneaker was released the same year as the Adidas Ultraboost on December 9, 2015, and was created to capitalize on the company's new Boost technology. [1] The inpisration for the shoe came from wanting to take old designs from Adidas' past and blend them with new most recent designs and technology it had which is why it used its Primeknit uppers.
In recent quarters, non-Chinese brands have lost share as a result of boycotts against Adidas, Nike and other Western brands that have refused to source cotton from China’s Xinjiang region, due ...
Crosswordese is the group of words frequently found in US crossword puzzles but seldom found in everyday conversation. The words are usually short, three to five letters, with letter combinations which crossword constructors find useful in the creation of crossword puzzles, such as words that start and/or end with vowels, abbreviations consisting entirely of consonants, unusual combinations of ...
Cryptic crossword clues consist typically of a definition and some type of word play. Cryptic crossword clues need to be viewed two ways. One is a surface reading and one a hidden meaning. [28] The surface reading is the basic reading of the clue to look for key words and how those words are constructed in the clue. The second way is the hidden ...