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a) Nike is an American company specialized in the shoes, clothing and the material of sport. The name is inspired by the Greek goddess of the victory Niké, winged goddess able to move at high speed, of which the most known representation, a statue exposed to the Louvre, is the Victory of Samothrace. She ensured her notoriety by a logo simple and quickly recognizable: Swoosh, a comma posed with the towards and with the horizontal; it was created by Carolyn Davidson in 1971 like a stylized representation of the wing of the goddess. The head office of Nike is in Beaverton, Oregon. Nike carries out 56% of its sales with the foreigner.
• The Victory of Samothrace is a Greek sculpture of the hellenistic time representing the Nike goddess, personification of the victory. It is currently preserved at the museum of Louvre. A reproduction of the work is located on the esplanade of Europe in the Antigone district in Montpellier.
• Swoosh is, according to a nickname running, the logo of the sporting equipment supplier Nike. The logo is simple, in a comma posed with the towards and with the horizontal, supposed to give an idea of movement, and to represent in a stylized way the wing of Nike, Greek goddess of the victory, which also gave its name to the mark. It is the one of the commercial logos most easily recognizable everywhere in the world.
• In Greek mythology, Nike is a goddess personifying the Victory, like her name to indicate. Girl of Titan Pallas and Styx, it is the sister of Cratos (Power), Bia (the Force) and Zélos (the Heat), with which it belongs to the close relations of Zeus. (The Homeric Anthem in Arès however gives birth to it from the god himself). The mark of the equipment of Nike sport comes from the name of the goddess, and its logo (Swoosh) is a stylized representation of the wings of the goddess.

b) Dates importantes dans l’histoire de Nike. | Evènements. | 1964 | | 1971 | For 35 dollars, a coed in