Nike’s effort was the boldest. The company aimed for large-scale automated production in under a decade, which it said would save on labor costs and allow it to deliver new models of shoes to ...

Nike doesn’t own or operate the overseas factories that make its products. Instead, it works with 532 contract manufacturers that employ nearly 1.2 million workers, according to an online Nike map .

Nike’s revenue is down due to a combination of factors including reduced consumer spending, particularly in key markets like ...

While Nike says contract factory workers for which it has data earn 1.9 times their local minimum wage, a Y&W Garment factory payroll ledger shows many workers earning a base pay of $204 a month ...

You could make shoes in Mexico, in the United States. It would almost certainly be more expensive. But the key thing is you just have to make a lot of design compromises.

The domestic footwear supply chain is almost non-existent - only about 1% of shoes sold are made in America. Pepper Harward, CEO of Oka Brands, one of the rare companies still producing shoes in the ...

Nike says contract factory workers for whom it has data now earn an average of 1.9 times their local minimum wage, without counting overtime. Scrutinizing that claim is extraordinarily difficult.

Labor How Trump’s Tariffs Could Affect Nike and Its Factory Workers The sportswear company offers a case study in the ripple effects of the global trade war, including how workers can get squeezed.