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Boks with new clothes: SARU will replace Canterbury by Asics
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<blockquote data-quote="TRF_Ezequiel" data-source="post: 589411" data-attributes="member: 42683"><p>You really don't get it, do you? You say Asics is for people who can't afford Nike and Adidas. It has nothing to do with that, mainly because Asics is in the same category as the other 2 and even exists longer than Nike. Actually, Nike as a company was founded by the same man that started Asics 15 years earlier. But that's just a side-note.</p><p></p><p>The reason a team picks a company to design their kit etc. is usually because they pay the most. The All Blacks re-newed their deal with Adidas in 2007, because they offered more than Puma, who were also close to a deal with the NZRU. Just an example. It works that way. The reason SARU picked Asics, is most likely because Asics came to the table with the best deal. Re-newing a contract with a current sponsor is always the better option, but Canterbury probably wasn't able to compete with Asics, a much larger company.</p><p></p><p>Same happened to the Sharks franchise and province when the deal with Canterbury expired in 2009, and the Sharks signed a deal with Reebok.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TRF_Ezequiel, post: 589411, member: 42683"] You really don't get it, do you? You say Asics is for people who can't afford Nike and Adidas. It has nothing to do with that, mainly because Asics is in the same category as the other 2 and even exists longer than Nike. Actually, Nike as a company was founded by the same man that started Asics 15 years earlier. But that's just a side-note. The reason a team picks a company to design their kit etc. is usually because they pay the most. The All Blacks re-newed their deal with Adidas in 2007, because they offered more than Puma, who were also close to a deal with the NZRU. Just an example. It works that way. The reason SARU picked Asics, is most likely because Asics came to the table with the best deal. Re-newing a contract with a current sponsor is always the better option, but Canterbury probably wasn't able to compete with Asics, a much larger company. Same happened to the Sharks franchise and province when the deal with Canterbury expired in 2009, and the Sharks signed a deal with Reebok. [/QUOTE]
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