Comparison of Decathlon and NIKE in the marketing model and profitability
Abstract:Many sports goods retail stuck in trouble after The China sports goods retail industry had developed 10 years rapidly. At the same time, a French company that its name is Decathlon, the company had developed fast and continued to open new branches in some big cities of China. It was a very strange sight. The thesis focus on Decathlon and NIKE, utilize different methods that include checking the past literatures, making questionnaire survey on site and communicating with some workers of in the sports goods retail industry to collect useful information for write the thesis better. NIKE represents the main mode of operation in China sporting goods retail industry, the brands as the leading and dealers in a subordinate position. Decathlon is a comprehensive brand shopping malls that operation pattern is that the own brand oriented are main, and other brands as a supplement. The author use the 4P that a classical marketing theory. Meantime, study the fin At the same time added to the analysis in the profitability of the two companies, eventually combined with their own marketing mode, trying to find the reason that the two different performance at the same industry environment.
Key Words:Sports Retail Industry; 4P; Business Model; Marketing Model; Profitability