NIKE SHOES

Workers making shoes in indonesia have claimed that supervisors slapped them, threw shoes at them, and called them pigs and dogs

LABOR

• Employs over 1million skilled and unskilled workers
• Both male and female workers all over asia
• Cost of labor is typically less than $4 a day
• Labor intense company

How do site factors contribute to the location?

Factories near inputs distance markets and factory

Why is it located where it is?

Labor is cheeper and the materials can be found almost everywhere.

Technology improvements=Greener

Just in time delivery boosts business and is more effective

Ships from Asia on ship to U.S and other countries then by trucks to destination

Basic Information

• Shoes are made in Asia
• expanding to north america, indonesia, china, and vietnam
• Most of the materials are found around the factory
• polyester, rubber, foam, cotton, and leather