Competition record
Adidas
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Adidas sells athletic footwear and apparel wholesale through Foot Locker and Dick's and through its own stores and site. Nike is the scale rival, with Puma, New Balance, On, and Hoka contesting specific shoes.
Overview
Adidas is based in Herzogenaurach. Samba, Gazelle, Ultraboost, and team kits are the products, and the three-stripe brand is sold in its own stores, on adidas.com, and through sporting-goods and fashion wholesale.
Nike is the company every Adidas wholesale negotiation is compared with. Foot Locker and Dick's Sporting Goods allocate wall space between them, and a retailer that gives a wall to Nike has less room for Adidas lifestyle shoes, which have carried more of Adidas's recent volume than performance running.
On and Hoka, owned by Deckers, have taken performance-running attention, and Puma and New Balance compete in lifestyle. Athlete and federation deals still matter for the performance brand, but the shelf at athletic specialty retail is the weekly contest.
Competition footprint
Wholesale walls at Foot Locker and Dick's are limited space shared with Nike.
Own-store and online sales let Adidas present the full line when wholesale doors narrow.
Exclusive colorways and federation kits are time-limited distribution that rivals cannot sell.
Consumer & business angle
Shoppers looking for a Samba often find it at a retailer that has chosen how many pairs to stock beside Nike.
Teams and federations under Adidas kit deals have a sponsor lock for the length of the contract.
What to watch
- Shelf allocation at Foot Locker and other athletic specialty chains versus Nike.
- Whether performance-running share keeps shifting toward Hoka and On.
Markets
athletic footwear · sportswear
Also known as: adidas
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