分页:
上一页 1 2 [3] 4 5 6 7 下一页
even the go-to shoe among fashion models in Paris this year.
Sales, though still a sliver of the overall market, have
surged the last few years (chart). "Converse is everywhere
right now," says Marshal Cohen, who tracks fashion for NPD
Group, a market-research firm: younger buyers like the hip
heritage of Cons. "It’s funky and it’s lasted this long-it
must be good," said Britney Ellis, a New Jersey teenager,
after buying a pair of navy Chuck Taylors.
Nike execs say they always intended to leave Converse alone.
"We let the team in place run the business the way they need
it to run," says Scott Olivet, vice president of Nike
Subsidiaries. (Converse executives declined to comment.) They
learned their lesson from the Bauer experience. After Nike
acquired Bauer in 1995, it started selling gear with its
distinctive logo, tinkered with the technology and offended
traditionalists when it outfitted superstar Sergei Fedorov in
snow-white skates. Nike "lost sight of the DNA" of Bauer, and
分页:
上一页 1 2 [3] 4 5 6 7 下一页