Interesting Facts about Nike’s shoe production in Third World

Third world of countries have Nike factories for workers to produce new shoes. In some countries, Nike’s wages have various to pay for workers to earn low wages that you imagined. Today, workers in Nike USA earn more money than other countries to keep working in Nike factories.

Indonesia: $2.46 a day

About 10,000 Indonesians were mad of wages and need to gain more wages in protest what they have work harder.

“If I don’t work overtime, I can’t survive,” says Baltazar at PT Hasi Nike factory in Jakarta. He works an average of 40 overtime hours a week.

Vietnam: $l.60 a day

1,300 Vietnamese workers at the Sam Yang factory were furious that they demanded a one cent per hour raise in wages.

Chinese: $1.75 a day

In China, there is no minimum wage for workers to earn and maybe they worked harder and suffer to earn at flat rate of wages.

“The supervisors will get nervous and move the work to another province. It’s impossible to monitor factory conditions,” says Asia Monitor Resource Center in Hong Kong.

When you go to the shoe stores. Shoes priced between $20 to $200 roughly. You imagined that you already pay over $100 for shoes that cost less than workers earned five dollars a day to make new shoes in factory!

Cited: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Boycotts/NikeThird_facts.html

3 Ethical Business Comparison

Nike, Gap Inc., and Patagonia have some similarities and differences how they are working as ethical business practices. As display text below, 3 different companies’ comparison to elaborate in more details what they are ethical business practices.

Nike

• More focused on the local market
• More effective advertising and marketing
• Less the environment impacts of their work
• Less the use of natural resources like oil and water
• Sustainable innovations
• All production is outsourced

Gap Inc.

• Pollution influenced production in factories
• Working standards strictly
• Factory-monitoring program required
• Energy consumption
• Sustainable innovations
• Natural materials- Environmental consultancy

Patagonia

• Some factories are good producing various clothes.
• Well managed and produce clothing under safe
• Healthy and humane working conditions.
• Some people are often poor, young, uneducated and incompetent in the global garment industry.
• Last minute changes to orders in production
• Unreasonable price demands and hurry-up delivery times

Every companies are very dramatic competition to show high quality products in related to clothing, shoes, and others. But there have pros and cons how they work environment impact, energy managements, and sustainable fabrics to make clothing products. What do you see 3 different companies have some similarities and differences?

Cited: http://www.nikebiz.com/responsibility/

http://www.patagonia.com/us/environmentalism

http://www.gapinc.com/content/gapinc/html/csr.html

Gap company graphic ethical business report

I just found out Gap Inc. has good resourceful information to display how workers practice their ethical business. Gap Inc. is great social and environment impacts according to the graphic picture. Gap Inc. have well-organized ethical business practices to keep running in their clean water program, good monitoring factories, great market shares and show high good quality to offer new products in related to clothing. What do you think how do they good running their ethical business practices or need other improvements?

Cited: http://www.gapinc.com/content/gapinc/html/csr/facts.html

Introduction

Hello, I am taking economic class and learn about the study of production and distribution in various companies to run their ethical business practices. I am going to describe 3 different companies; Nike, Gap Inc., and Patagonia how they are good or bad managements for saving the environment, energy, water, and affecting the health for people in related to clothing, shoes, and pants, etc. Three companies are good ethical business and need to improve some areas for economic and work society impact.  I will update next new post about more deeply 3 companies’ ethical business practice comparison and what similarities and differences to make progress in production.