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Learning from competitors Analyse successful competitors Copy and improve on them Adopt and adapt best practice from elsewhere Avoid and overcome these pitfalls WHY ARE THEY SUCCESSFUL? WHY ARE THEY NOT SUCCESSFUL? WHAT CAN YOU ADAPT AND USE? Analyse unsuccessful competitors Look to other industries and markets 137 CASE STUDY importance of gathering information on the adversaries a company faces. As Sun Tzu states: ‘An army without spies is like a man without ears or eyes’, and because of this, ‘to remain in ignorance of the adversary’s condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a few hundred ounces of silver in honours and emoluments, is the height of inhumanity.’ A German sporting goods company is focus- ing on the global ‘epicentre’ of the sneaker market to catch up with its rival. They say a picture paints a thousand words but sometimes a number does it even better. Nike, the US sporting goods behemoth whose swoosh logo is as instantly recognis- able as its name, together with its Jordan brand have built up a share of nearly 60 per cent of the US trainers market. Adidas has just 4.4 per cent. The German group is far more competitive in sports apparel and markets outside the US. The duo are neck-and-neck in western Europe, Adidas is a long way ahead in Russia, and Nike has a narrow lead in China. But Nike’s dominance in the world’s most important sneaker market gives it a painfully sharp edge on Adidas, which is pushing a new strategy to claw back share across key sportswear segments, with a strong emphasis on the US. With such a big gap to close in trainers, Adidas has a mammoth task on its hands. Outside the US there is much greater parity between Nike and Adidas. ‘But the US is the epicen- tre of the global sneaker/“athleisure” market’, says Matt Powell, sports industry analyst at research firm NPD, which calculated the market share data. ‘Ulti- mately to win globally, sneaker brands must win in the US. Nike has a deep and rich understanding of the US sneaker consumer.’ Nike has been a runaway success over the past five years. It is the world’s biggest sportswear com- pany by sales and in the year to June 2015 revenues rose 10 per cent, to $30.6bn. Adidas, meanwhile, reported a 6 per cent rise in revenues on a currency- neutral basis to €14.5bn, for the full year 2014. Profit at Nike has risen at a double-digit rate – and that is despite its overseas business grappling with a strong dollar that has made prices less competitive. Case study Adidas will need to add sales at a brisk pace to even maintain the existing gap with Nike. The western European market shows how tough this race will be. Over the past three years, the sales growth of the Nike brand has outstripped that of the German group’s Adidas and Reebok brands by roughly 10 percentage points on average, once cur- rency fluctuations are excluded, according to UBS analysts. The result is that Adidas and Nike are now level in the region that has traditionally been the German company’s stronghold. Euromonitor, a market research provider, calculates that both groups had a 12.8 per cent share of the western European sports- wear market in 2014. ‘Alarmingly for Adidas, Nike has caught up in its core western Europe market, and may overtake it in the short term’, says Natasha Cazin, senior analyst at Euromonitor International. Even maintaining the dead heat in which Adi- das now finds itself with Nike could be hard, says Zuzanna Pusz, an analyst at Berenberg. ‘Adidas is doing fine in western Europe, but they should be as they are spending 14 per cent of their sales on Download 6.59 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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