FOUNDING
Back before the Swoosh logo and long before the days we were called Nike, there was Blue Ribbon Sports (BRS). It was the company Phil Knight, our founder, and legendary track coach Bill Bowerman created in 1964 to provide athletes with better shoes. Their first year sales totaled around $8,000. It wasn’t until 1971 that BRS introduced the concept of the Greek winged Goddess of victory—Nike. In December 1980 we went public. And the rest is history.

EMPLOYEES
Nike employs more than 33,000 people globally. Our Nike World Headquarters located in Beaverton, Oregon is home to more than 7,000 employees.

REVENUE

For the fiscal year ending May 31, 2009, we reported record revenues of $19.2 billion, a 3 percent increase over last year’s earnings.

NIKE WORLD CAMPUS
The original Nike World Headquarters officially opened its doors in June 1990. By 2001, the original campus had doubled in size with the addition of six more buildings.

The Nike campus today consists of 17 main buildings whose names pay tribute to some of our most legendary athletes: John McEnroe, Joan Benoit Samuelson Center, Michael Jordan, Bo Jackson (gym), Mike Schmidt, Nolan Ryan, Lance Armstrong (gym), Mia Hamm, Ken Griffey, Jr., Pete Sampras, Jerry Rice, Tiger Woods Center, The Joe Paterno and C. Vivian Stringer Child Development Centers, Dan Fouts, Alberto Salazar, and Steve Prefontaine Hall. The six-acre lake that rests at the heart of the Nike World Campus is seven feet deep at its deepest point. Home to migratory ducks and geese, this serene lake has been known to surprise a few employees not watching where they’re going.

At 450,000 square feet, the Mia Hamm building is the largest on campus. Coming in at a not-so-close second is the Nolan Ryan Building on the original campus (completed in December 1992) at 225,000 square feet. All together, the buildings on campus total slightly more than 2 million square feet or just about 35 football fields.

The main entry to Nike World Campus is at One Bowerman Drive, honoring legendary University of Oregon, Olympic Track and Field coach and Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman.

In addition to our 193-acre campus near Beaverton, we operate across the world in a variety of facilities. Our first Niketown store opened in 1990 in downtown Portland. This first store set the standard for interactive consumer environments. Averaging more than 30,000 square feet of selling space, Niketowns attract millions of consumers every year around the globe. Nike also has Nike Stores, NikeFactory Stores and NikeWomen stores in the US and around the world. Learn more about our
US retail locations.

Nike IHM, Inc., is based near the World Campus and produces Nike AIR-SOLE cushioning components used in Nike footwear products. It also sells small amounts of various plastic products to other manufacturers.