"In summary, from a strategic point of view, one of key goals, long-term is to improve the operating margins of the Company. They believe that operating margins will improve in 2005, while at the same time they are continuing to invest in advertising, marketing and product initiatives," Fireman concluded.
Apparel, shoes and sports related products manufacturer & marketer Reebok International Ltd's United Kingdom-based ancestor company was founded for one of the best reasons possible: athletes wanted to run faster. So, in the 1890s, Joseph William Foster made some of the first known running shoes with spikes in them. By 1895, he was in business making shoes by hand for top runners; and before long his fledgling company, J.W. Foster and Sons, developed an international clientele of distinguished athletes. The family-owned business proudly made the running shoes worn in the 1924 Summer Games by the athletes celebrated in the film "Chariots of Fire".