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It was a moment most business executives would pause to savor:
late last year, German sporting goods pioneer Adidas learned that after years of
declining market share, the company had sprinted past U.S. Reebok International
to take the second place behind Nike in the race for worldwide sales. But Robert
Louis-Dreyfus, the rumpled Frenchman who new runs Adidas, and didn’t even stop
for one of his trademark Havana cigars in celebration, worried that the company
would grow complacent. Instead, he and a group of friends bought French soccer
club Olympic de Marseille "Now that’s something I have dreamed about since I was
a kid." Louis-Dreyfus says with an adolescent grin.
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With sales in the first three quarters of 1996 at $2.5 billion, up a
blithering 30.7% over 1995, it’s hard to recall the dismal shape Adidas was in
when Loins-Dreyfus took over as chairman in April 1993. Founded in 1920 by Adi
Dassler, the inventor of the first shoe