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Nike plans Olympic advert blitz in China

By Jonathan Birchall in New York

Published: June 30 2008 20:57 | Last updated: June 30 2008 20:57

Nike, the world’s largest sports shoe and clothing company, on Monday said an advertising blitz around this summer’s Beijing Olympics will not be affected by efforts to curtail “ambush marketing” by non-Olympic sponsors.

Charlie Denson, Nike’s brand president, said during the Olympics, Nike would launch “a pretty prominent campaign that will run in China. It will run in all the different media vehicles”.

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