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In college and gotta give an informative speech. I am going to inform people on a subculture they probably dont know about which is sneaker collecting. I needsome legit resources talking about nike and how much it costs for them to make the shoes and ship them. That kind of stuff

I would work it into my speech by talking about the background of nike and then into people collecting and how it can become a serious hobby. I will not usewikipedia or random google links to for anyone who knows what type of stuff is college ready references please help me out
 
CNBC had a piece on Nike last year that has some good information. I dunno where you can find the entire program but they have like chunks of it on Youtube...

 
they also have chunks of it on their own website
http://www.cnbc.com/id/22492149

If you want to give your speech on sneaker collecting you really wouldn't need this info but in any case here's one example of the cost structure of apair of Nike's: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~lormand/poli/nike/nike101-8.htm

I've written and done research on Nike and similar athletic shoe companies operating in Asia and Europe and really the only real reputable literature isfrom books written in the 90's when the industry was hot with fierce competition and labor problems. You won't find much in the way of peer-reviewedjournal articles on anything other than marketing efforts.

There are two big organizations that are involved with these companies however and they may have some legit info:

Sporting Goods Manufacturer's Association
www.sgma.com

and maybe the American Apparel and Footwear Association
http://www.apparelandfootwear.org/Statistics.asp
 
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