Adidas Shakes Off Its Old Achilles Heel

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Heard on the Street: Kanye West’s collaboration with Adidas is helping the German sportswear brand catch up with Nike on profitability

The German sportswear company, which owns Reebok as well as its namesake brand, said Friday that net profit in the first quarter of 2019 increased by 17% compared with the same period of

last year. Adidas’s business is increasingly shifting online, where sales are more lucrative than those made in its 2,400-strong network of stores world-wide. It also negotiated better...

 

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Are 70's platform heels back in fashion now?

Muddy

jruddz

If he can get his wife Kim to make a ton of sexy ads and commercials adidas will become just as strong as Nike in a few years.

Why is KimStrassel so damn ugly?

I didn't know Adidas was German. Thank you. I dispise Merkel and what she's done to Germany. I'll NEVER buy ANYTHING of Adidas EVER AGAIN!

We'll see if independence can hope to compete with 'Woke' 🤔

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