Interesting Facts about Nike Shoes

As we know, the Nike shoe is the most popular shoes in the world. Almost everyone in the world knows the Nike shoes. With development of the society, there are a lot of classic style of the Nike shoes, like the Kobe Bryant shoes, Lebron James shoes, Nike basketball shoes and so forth. After primarily serving as a distributor for a Japanese running shoe manufacturer since 1968, BRS, the company that would become Nike, launched its first original shoe with trademark Swoosh in 1971. It was a soccer shoe.

In 1985, Nike introduced the Nike Air Jordan shoes, which was originally banned from the NBA because it didn't contain enough color white. The controversy, Jordan's rising popularity and the air-cushion soles helped propel Air Jordan and Nike into never before seen status for a sneaker or shoe company.

The company started manufacturing golf shoes that focused on athletic performance. In 1988, Nike purchased the shoe company Cole Haan.

Nike FACTs
Nike subjects workers (90% young women and girls) to criminally dangerous, brutal sweatshops.Nervous, Nike insults everyone’s intelligence with its intensive campus PR using Nike-paid "reports".

The UM/Nike contract was attained through the Freedom of Information Act. Recent “Just Don’t Do It Campaign” actions have involved: Coalition of Asian Social Work Students, College Democrats, East Timor Action Coalition, Environmental Action, Environmental Clearinghouse, Environmental Issues Committee of MSA, Environmental Justice Group, Free Mumia Coalition/Anti-Racist Action, Global Exchange, Guild House Campus Ministry SIGN, Huron Valley/Student Greens, Overseas Development Network, Solidarity, Student Peace Action at UM, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 951, Vietnamese Student Association, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.