Bill Bowerman, 10th Mountain Division ... During a trip to Kobe, Japan, he discovered Onitsuka Tiger athletic shoes, now known as Asics. Knight was impressed with the shoe and secured the rights ...

Back in 1964, Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight teamed up to create Blue Ribbon Sports, a sneaker brand that has grown immensely from its humble roots into what we know today as Nike. Bowerman and Knight ...

The Japanese brand, known for its thin-soled sneakers, is continuing its global expansion with a new Covent Garden store.

One morning, co-founder Bill Bowerman had waffles ... the waffle iron come into play? PHIL KNIGHT: Almost 10 years later, we were a distributor for Tiger Shoes and then we sold it for online ...

Phil Knight sports the Nike brand ... and left with an agreement to distribute its Tiger brand running shoes in the western United States. At first, that meant loading the trunk of his green ...

Track coach Bill Bowerman changed all ... distributor of the Japanese Onitsuka Tiger track shoe. Bowerman took the goods and tweaked them for runners, and Knight sold them out of his car trunk.

Knight started the company with former Oregon track and field coach Bill Bowerman back in 1964 with ... endorsement deals with Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, the company has become synonymous ...

After graduation, Knight himself imported a few hundred pairs of Japanese-made Tiger running shoes. He formed a partnership with his Oregon track coach, William J. Bowerman, who for years had been ...

A former University of Oregon track star, Knight founded Blue Ribbon Sports, Inc., with Bill Bowerman in 1968. Knight's first shoes ... such as Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods as emblems of ...

It really begins in 1957, when Knight first met Bill Bowerman ... They distributed Onitsuka Tiger running shoes in North America until 1971. Between 1964 and 1971, Blue Ribbon Sports opened ...