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Adidas came out with clothing
Adidas wanted a change in fashion -
First person to wear the shoe
Jesse Owens in the Berlin Olympics was wearing Dasslers track shoes -
Coming up with their name
Build off of the founders name first and last name (Adolf Dassler) -
Adidas was founded
Herxogenaurach, German -
First shoe was made
set to work with 47 employees -
Becoming famous
Followed the victory of the German team in the World Cup, the "miracle of Berlin" -
Adidas logo
the company relieved the three-stripe logo in a form the resembled a leaf they called the "trefoil" -
Adidas was bought
After death of his son, the company was bought by French industrialist Bernand Tapie -
Movement of Adidas
Adidas moved almost all of its production to third world countries in order to increase its output -
Adidas became public
Adidas has become the No. 2 shoe company world wide, operating in 200 countries -
Adidas collabing with other producers
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