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adidas Men’s Samba Classic Soccer Shoe

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Adolf Dassler founded the sports goods manufacturer Adidas 60 years ago. It all started with a quarrel between brothers.

The Second World War is now over, Germany is hungry, and raw materials are scarce. In a small town in the Franconian province decides Adolf Dassler, sports shoes manufacture – the predecessor of the later famous Adidas shoes. Leather he has none, but that he can not stop himself. Shoemaker takes the sports-mad guy ropes, and bumper American army tanks and it is her first post-war sports shoes. With its 47 employees, he will develop special models for each sport in Herzogenaurach. He had originally learned tinkered with 20 bakers and his first pair of shoes made from linen in the laundry room of his mother. 1948 report of the now 48-year-old to his company. He takes his nickname “Adi”, adds the beginning of his surname added, calling the company Adidas.
Today, 60 years later, the group is a global sporting goods manufacturer. Adidas track record is marked by the will to stand at the top. Even from a deeper phase of orientation, the group has fought back up. He takes into account takeovers difficult to achieve world leadership.

Adidas is one fight at the grocery store: Even the establishment of the three-stripe brand goes back to a conflict. Originally Adolf Dassler had with his brother Rudolf founded in the early 20′s, a shoe factory. But after the war, there is a rift. What caused the fight between the brothers, is still unclear. Some say that the brothers would have denounced each other to the Allies. The two NSDAP members had celebrated great success under Hitler. Others claim the Beau Rudolf had an affair with Adi’s wife Katherine. In any case, destroy the siblings shared the company and form their own companies. Adolf can be down south of the river Aurach, Rudolf with the eventual World Group Cougar on the northern side. From the brothers are bitter rivals who try everything to outdo each other.

Breakthrough with the Miracle of Bern

The competition between the two wings the success of Adidas. Beginning of the 50-year football coach appeared Josef “Sepp” Herberger on with Rudolf Dassler and demanded money, that his team plays in Puma shoes. That, at least the head of the big cats-mark later reported his staff. Rudolf can not afford to respond to the request of the coach and refused. Shortly after Germany plays with Adidas models on the feet. we believe the stories, Adolf Dassler sensed his chance to land a major advertising coup and his hateful brother to outdo. The Adidas boss is a forerunner of a new marketing concept that Adidas uses today. Only three years, the players may take the German national team also shoes that are not of Adidas. The shirts with the typical three stripes with the team today for a lot of money.

Adolf Dassler, is not only a brilliant recruiter. In the game of national team against Hungary in 1954, inventiveness Dassler come into play and helps him to break through. The Miracle of Bern is not least due to the fact that the cake studded with plastic boots are the Germans made of thin leather. They offer an important advantage in the constant rain of the finale, in which the opponents of the massive leather boots soaked with water and become blocks to the legs of the Hungarians. After the victory Adis shoe gets the name “World Champion”. But the indefatigable Dassler are not satisfied and thus further tinkering. “Strive for perfection. There is always something to improve, “is one of his guiding principles. Overall, he brings it to 700 inventions and patents, of which Adidas is still profiting.

Expansion and Crisis

As the national team will head to the Adidas-best in the world: his company is expanding to France back in the 60s, the rest of Europe follows. At the same time Adidas written on the general agent in the United States on foot. Dassler also began to produce sports equipment and balls. From 1970, Adidas produced for all football World Cups and European Championships, the round black and white leather. Soon after, Adidas increases in the Latin American market. At times, Adidas is the world leader. Adolf Dassler died in 1978 at the age of 78, and his son Horst soon takes over the lead. In the 80s, in which the brand with the three stripes on China opens up more distributors, the company falters and loses the connection to the world market.

When Adolf Dassler’s son Horst 1987 suddenly dies, his advisor Albert Henkel moving to the top and installed a complex management structure with long decision paths. This aggravated the already precarious situation. New trends such as jogging and aerobics movement Adidas oversleeps whole, the range is unclear. The revenge: two years after Horst Dassler’s death triggers the U.S. sports goods manufacturer Nike Herzogenaurach from the global market leader. In 1990 the French politician Bernard Tapie and artists bought for 470 million marks, 80 percent of the shares, the majority of Adidas, the company is completely off course. Tapie will transform the company into a fashion brand. Corduroy trousers and ties with the company slips deeper into the red. When the negative has reached 150 million marks, get off Tapie.