When were Jimmy Choo shoes first created?
Nike’s revenues reached $14 million in 1976, doubled the next year to $28 million, and grew to $270 million in 1980. Part of the company’s success came from obtaining endorsements from professional athletes, including tennis players Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe. The company name was changed from BRS to Nike, Inc., in 1978, and it established its Beaverton headquarters the following year. That year, the company began marketing a line of athletic clothing. It also introduced shoes made with insoles constructed with air-filled sacs for cushioning, a technology codeveloped by an engineer from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In 1980, after having secured more than half of the U.S. market for running shoes, Nike surpassed the German company Adidas AG as the top seller of all athletic shoes in the United States. In the early 1980s, Nike moved its main manufacturing facilities from Japan to South Korea, Taiwan, and mainland China. It then formed Nike-Japan Corp
