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      • In 2005, the year the Adidas acquisition was announced, Reebok made $3.77 billion.
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  1. Aug 13, 2021 · In 2005, the year the Adidas acquisition was announced, Reebok made $3.77 billion. In 2020, Reebok made $1.61 billion. The story of Reebok's stunning rise and slow decline is a long one, and...

    • ‘Charging In’
    • The Rise of Reebok
    • Staying at The Top
    • ‘Brother Versus Brother’
    • What Is Reebok? The Loss of An Identity
    • Lasting Power

    Long before Reebok grabbed number one market share, before Foster even began thinking about Reebok, his grandfather founded a shoe company, J.W. Foster & Sons. Founded in 1895 by the Joe Foster he gets his own name from, it became known for spiked running shoes, which were worn by British runners Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell when they won gold ...

    Reebok’s explosion hadn’t happened yet, but it was coming, thanks to very soft leather and the aerobics trend. The Freestyle came about thanks to Angel Martinez, initially a salesman at Reebok, who discovered one of those very large white spaces executives look for when he attended one of his wife’s exercise classes. Broadly, the opportunity was in...

    The path after reaching number one was more fraught. Reebok tried to break into basketball and other sports. Fireman signed up Reebok to make uniforms for the Russian Olympic team in the ’90s, knowing they were projected to win several gold medals. And there was the Dream Team debacle of 1992. Reebok had won the contract to make the awards uniforms...

    Incidentally, struggling to find a leader to replace himself is what led Fireman into negotiations with Adidas. Had he found someone suited to the task, the conversation around Reebok may be different today. Reebok first heard from Adidas about five years into operations, when Foster received a letter saying Reebok’s use of two stripes and a T-bar ...

    Adidas can’t be absolved from responsibility in Reebok’s decline. The brand had other problems, though. In the late ’90s and early 2000s, Reebok started to plateau. Sales fell in 1998, 1999 and 2000 before rallying back to 1997 levels by 2004. There are a host of reasons that Reebok’s success faltered. Questions around its core identity — what Reeb...

    What defines which brands last and which ones don’t? Is it the marketing? Is it the leadership? Is it chance? Reebok ended up where it is now based on a series of decisions over the years, some successful and others not. But that’s the nature of running a business. “For the most part, I’d do it all over. Because the corrections you could make would...

    • Cara Salpini
  2. Jun 7, 2024 · This timeline shows the net sales of the Reebok brand worldwide from 2006 to 2022. In 2022, the Reebok business under Adidas saw a net sales amounting to about 353 million euros.

  3. Aug 3, 2005 · FRANKFURT, Germany — Adidas-Salomon AG said Wednesday it will buy shoemaker Reebok International Ltd. for E3.1 billion (US$3.8 billion), giving the company about 20 percent of the U.S....

  4. Aug 4, 2005 · Adidas-Salomon’s proposed $3.8-billion purchase of Reebok International Ltd. could dramatically reshape the global athletic shoe and apparel industry, creating a more formidable competitor to...

  5. In 2005, adidas, in a strategic masterstroke, welcomed Reebok into its fold for an impressive $3.8 billion. Through this new leadership, the British brand changed in more ways that one, from its marketing persona to its design philosophy. Yet, in the world of business, change is continuously afoot.

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  7. Aug 12, 2021 · Adidas paid $3.8bn for Reebok in 2005 as it sought to take on rival Nike in its home market but the brand was dogged by lacklustre sales and losses.

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