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A 3 page paper assessing the cost and portions of the supply chain for a bucket hat carrying the NBA logo and that of the Los Angeles Clippers. Factory price plus surface shipping is $0.71 per hat; one site has it on "sale" at the end of 2005 for $15.95, marked down from its regular price of $24. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSnikeHats.rtf
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it is difficult to find a Los Angeles Clippers-logo hat made by Nike. All current stock appears to have been made by (or rather for) Reebok, but some clearance
items carry the Nike name. Finding a Nike hat to investigate was difficult, even when including "Nike" in the search terms used at the NBA site. Searching at
Google for Nike, hat and price returned a list of pages of merchants of sports items. The one selected was Football Fanatics, leaving the researcher to wonder why a
football site would be selling NBA-licensed items. At any rate, the specific item is number 62771, "on sale" for $15.95. Its original
price was $24 (Nike Los Angeles Clippers Black Rewind Bucket Hat, 2005). Sourcing Nike has evolved into a role model for international corporate
social responsibility in terms of human rights and refusing to use any contract manufacturer that cannot - or will not - meet Western standards regarding sweatshop working conditions. As
part of its commitment to transparency following a worldwide boycott of Nike products in the late 1990s, it is one of the few companies that reveals its current contract manufacturers
overseas. It uses 125 such manufacturers in China alone, another 19 in Taiwan, as well as several hundred manufacturers in 53 other countries (Disclosure List, 2005). Asian nations
hold the greatest number of manufacturers per country. Though Nike is forthcoming about what companies it uses, the companies themselves are quite secretive.
Kahn (2004) reports that Esquel Apparel in Hong Kong designed a new high-end polo shirt for Nike after Tiger Woods was seen on television and the cover of Sports
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