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Nike Air Max 98 Womens recently moved into a brand-new headquarters in Boston, where it is plotting a return to glory.The brand is a subsidiary of Adidas, but it hasn't seen the strong growth its parent company has.Reebok has a plan to aggressively go after female consumers, a demographic that its competitors have struggled
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Nike Air Max 95 Femme the storied brand."In a lot of ways, it's the symbolic shift for us," Reebok president Matt O'Toole told Business Insider during a recent visit. "Obviously, physically it's a change, but culturally as well."The company, a subsidary of Adidas since 2005, recently finished its move from lush green surroundings in Canton, a suburb of Boston, where its campus was surrounded by sports fields and landscaping. The environment was beautiful, but it had its downsides."We had this amazing campus, but we were cloistered in our own little
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The new Boston location has views of Logan International Airport, across Boston Harbor and the dry dock.
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Nike Air Presto Womens repurposed shipping containers."The biggest change is the gates are gone and we're in the city," O'Toole said. "The inspiration is different."The company's 750 workers are encouraged to take mass transit to work, as the Silver Line bus stops right outside the entrance. There's also a shuttle for commuters coming from Boston's South Station."We're city mice instead of country mice," John Lynch, head of US marketing, said.Reebok's attention to detail is immediately apparenOn the ground floor, next to the elevator, is a large store
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In 2012, the company pivoted to create strictly fitness apparel, moving away completely from team sports. In 2012, it debuted a new logo: a red delta, meant to symbolize the trinity of physical, mental, and social development that Reebok says occurs with a fitness-oriented
www.thomaspolly.fr/ lifestyle."Everything is coming together at one time to create a big opportunity in the US market for us," O'Toole said.In some ways, this was Reebok getting back to its roots. The company that would become Reebok, J.W. Foster, was started in 1895, but the brand name has only been around since 1958. It hit its stride in the 1980s, when it came to America during the Jazzercise craze. At the time, Reebok was focused on fitness.It later signed a deal to be the exclusive seller of authorized apparel with the NFL — a first in the sports world —
Nike Air Max 1 Femmeand then agreed to a number of licensing deals across sports."Reebok in the '80s was the brand that said, 'Hey, it's OK to work out, to sweat, have muscles,' when that was a new thing," O'Toole said. "Now our job is to make sure that affirmation and that encouragement is still there."