Nike CEO Elliott Hill Talks Turnaround, Converse Brands
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Welcome to our Bloomberg audiences worldwide. Romain Bostic here in Milan, Italy with Elliot Hill, the CEO of Nike Inc. Great to have you here, Elliot.
It's great to be here. Thanks so much for having me in this great city.
Well, thanks for inviting me. You didn't just invite me here to Italy. You invited me to actually oversee what has become a big relaunch here of your ACG brand here at the Milano Cortina Winter Games. Yes.
Yeah, it's been, it's part of, clearly we led with some innovation in the apparel and our Air Milano jacket, but we also use this as an opportunity to reintroduce, if you will, the ACG brand to the trail running consumer. And we thought there was no better place to do it than here in Milan when the eyes of the world were watching, but also with the backdrop of the Alps and the Dolomites. And I don't know if you saw the train that we brought in, the ACG Express, where we brought consumers and we took them to the wild, we call it. and took them out on a trail run. And it's been a really, really fun launch for us. And I think it's done a great job of positioning the brand moving forward.
Well, you guys, Nike, I should say, has been masters at branding. You've been in the CEO chair now for 16 months or so. You've been at Nike for... much longer than that. I want to talk a little bit, though, about how these types of launches, the innovation that you see, the buzz that it creates, how that actually translates into sales.
Yeah. So I think a couple of things. Number one, these moments, these sport moments are critically important to our brand and, frankly, to the industry. They're tentpole moments. Again, whether it's an Olympics, a Winter Olympics, a World Cup, a Super Bowl, an NBA All-Star Game. And frankly, they're really, I think, galvanizing moments for our teams internally to make certain we show up at our best. And we use those moments to take the relationships that we have with the world's greatest athletes and translate that into coveted, beautiful, innovative product as only Nike can do. And so these are critical moments for our company and for our brands. And no question, they're the moments that can help create a halo over the business side of the sport as well.
When we talk about the evolution of Nike, at your core, you are a road running company. In fact, the most recent quarter with the relaunch of the Vamero and the Pegasus line, 20% growth in your running business. There's another aspect of this, though, that's been picking up, a report that went viral a couple of years ago about the explosion of off-road running, trail running, if you will. And ACG, I would assume, fits into that in some capacity. Have you actually sat down and kind of gone over what the market is for trail running?
No question. So when we and by the way, it's not just trail running, it's the overall outdoor industry, if you will. And there's no there's no question that consumers are there is a movement to getting outdoors and whether it's in China or Europe or the United States and
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