Everything about Asics totally explained
is an athletic equipment company that started in 1949 when Kihachiro Onitsuka began manufacturing sports shoes at his home in
Kobe,
Hyogo Prefecture,
Japan. Asics produces shoes designed for
football,
running,
tennis,
martial arts,
cricket,
golf,
wrestling,
track & field,
cross-training,
volleyball,
cheerleading,
Lacrosse, and for many other sports.
Initially the company was known as
Onitsuka Tiger, and was famous for their Mexico 66 line of shoes and their distinctive stripes. In 1977, Onitsuka Tiger merged with GTO and JELENK to form ASICS Corporation. Despite the name change, a vintage range of Asics shoes are still produced and sold internationally under the Onitsuka Tiger label.
The name of the company "ASICS" is an acronym of the Latin phrase "anima sana in corpore sano" which translates to "a sound mind in a sound body". Since 2007 there has been a larger emphasis placed on this acronym.
2006
In its 2006 fiscal year, ASICS generated 171 billion Yen in net sales and 13 billion yen in net income. Sixty-six percent of the company's income comes from the sale of sports shoes, 24 percent from sportswear, and 10 percent from sports equipment. 49 percent of the company's sales are in Japan, 18 percent in North America, and 29 percent in Europe. Currently, the company has 3800 employees.
Sponsorship
Asics sponsors many nationally ranked
NAIA and
NCAA men’s and women’s teams, as well as the national teams of:
Argentina,
Brazil,
Canada,
Italy,
Japan,
Puerto Rico,
Spain and
Sweden. The company also sponsors individuals and teams that compete in the sports of volleyball, football, netball, athletics, cricket, tennis, triathlon and wrestling. Recently ASICS was the official apparel sponsor of the
2006 Winter Olympics. Asics also supplied apparel to the Italian, Dutch, Irish, Korean and Australian teams that competed at the
2007 World Athletic Championships in Osaka, Japan.
During the early to late 1990s, ASICS supplied kit for a number of British football teams, including
Coventry City, Blackburn Rovers, Newcastle United, Leeds United, Aston Villa and Bradford City.
Among the football users of ASICS are:
Some of the football teams, sponsored by Asics (incomplete):
Europe
Empoli
Torino
Lecce
Brescia
Triestina
SK Elvi
Africa
Madagascar national football teamFurther Information
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