Re:I didn't know about the new Speedo suit (Score:2)
by mercedo (822671) * on 2008.06.03 4:13 (#23630059) Homepage Journal
In Athene Olympics Japanese swimmers performed relatively good results.It was three yesrs ago that Japanese swimming asocciation made a licence contract with domestic three companies -Asics, Descente, Mizuno for Japanese swimmers to use exclusively swimmsuits made by these three companies. As you pointed out it is not so strange, and there was no technical difference between the products of domestic companies and those of Speedo, so the contract must have made out of maily commercial purposes, not particularly intended to protect domestic industries. Their exclusive licence made them fail to innovate new products? Yes, there's possibility for it.What I matter is their attidude for innovation, research and development. Speedo Inc. must have spent millions of money to invent new swimsuits. On the other hands, what these domestic companies did was to analyse Speedo company made product thoroughly and made a new product they claim.
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