ÿþRecently, it was reported that adidas nmd the world's second largest sports company Adidas would shut down the only one of its own factory in Suzhou in October this year. Adidas officials confirmed this message to reporters yesterday, but it stressed that Adidas still have over 300 cooperation industries in China, the shutting down will not influence the production, closing factories is based on the consideration of the strategy of re-integrate global resources.
Nevertheless, business market is still inevitable to associate this action with the phenomenon that domestic manufacturing labor costs rises sharply, recruitment is difficult. But it is not accidental, it's more like a trend. When the global economic crisis adidas shoes broke out three years ago, Nike shut down its last factory in China so as to deduce resources unavailable in China. Comparing Nike and Adidas to "migratory birds", now that there have been no longer lush adidas ultra boost trees, no fertile land, nothing can impede them.
At that time, Nike in China responded to South reporters that "The purpose is to further promote the long-term procurement integration strategies and streamline the supply chain.".In fact, Adidas did not deny the correspondence between shutting down the factory and the rising costs, and it seems that there doesn't exist any conflict between "global resource integration" and "rising costs".
As is replied in the adidas yeezy e-mail by Adidas headquarters, "Shutting down the factory in China is out of the strategic consideration to re-integrate global resources". Except for this reason, no other else. What's more, according to Xinhua, Suzhou Industrial Park Administrative Committee said that it understood Adidas's need for adjustment of its global resources re-integration; it's also consistent with the trend of restructuring and development of Suzhou Industrial Park, said in the material to the media.
In 1975, Nike's producing lines in Japan were transferred to the relatively low-labor -costs places in Korea and Taiwan. In the 1980 s, and for the same reason, Nike's main producing lines were transferred to Fujian and Guangdong. In recent years, with the rising of adidas superstar Chinese labor costs, it targets at the lower labor costs in Southeast Asia.The apparel industry independent analysts Liao Jierong thought that from the transaction structure of stakeholders, this "fickle" of Nike and Adidas was normal.
Adidas officials confirmed this message to reporters yesterday, but it stressed that Adidas still have over 300 cooperation industries in China, the shutting down will not influence the production, closing factories is based on the consideration of the strategy of re-integrate global resources.Nevertheless, business market is still inevitable to associate this action with the phenomenon that domestic manufacturing labor costs rises sharply, recruitment is difficult.