Adidas is a
German sports apparel
corporation. The company is named after it's founder, Adolf 'Adi' Dassler, who started producing
shoes in the
1920s in a village near
Nuremberg.
Rudolf Dassler, Adi's brother, founded a rival company, Puma, in 1948.
The chief competitor of Adidas is Nike Inc..
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