Adidas buys Reebok! Puma still remains at large!

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British Knights still excluded, of course.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

I thought Reebok were Britisher!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Boston, baby! boston!

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

I swear they have Union Jacks on 'em!

― jel -- (jel), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

"Adidas buys Reebok!"? But nobody buys Reebok.

Apart from 50:

http://musicgel.it/img/speciali/hiphop_foto1.jpg

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Analysts said Adidas would also benefit from Reebok's strong lifestyle fashion business.
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"I would watch the execution of the integration very carefully because it won't be easy to integrate the businesses -- Adidas's focus is on sport but Reebok's is on lifestyle," said Volker Riehm, fund manager at Activest.

Pardon my ignorance, but I always thought that wearing Adidas (particularly the three-stripe variety) was more "fashionable" than wearing Reebok.

― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

The only people I usually see wearing reeboks are middle-aged women around my mother's age.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Dunlop Green Flash still available.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

maybe adidas are tyrign to get a bigger share of UK market? Reebok are v big in UK

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Ah yes, I'd forgotten all about the 'Reebok Classic'.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Reebok Classic, the shoe of choice for running from the police.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

reebok's last great champion spokesperson/pump peddler:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/grand_chelem_tennis/chang-reebok96.jpg

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

Boston? I thought they were from Bolton?!

― strophic (strophic), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Reebok was founded in 1895 when a young cross-country runner from Bolton named Joseph William Foster had the bright idea of improving his grip by hammering nails through the soles of his running pumps.

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

yup, but looks like they jumped the pond and headed out to the suburbs:

Reebok, based in the Boston suburb of Canton, Massachusetts

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

pumps?

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

Dental plan!

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

dickhead

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

Dental plan!

― kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

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