AND1

Infobox_Company
company_name = AND1
company_
company_type = Private corporation
foundation = 1993
location_city = Aliso Viejo, California
location_country = USA
key_people = CEO of AND1:Seth Berger
CEO of American Sporting Goods: Tom O'Riordan
industry = sporting goods, basketball
products = Athletic shoes, apparel, sports equipment, accessories
num_employees =
revenue = profit $150 million (FY 2005)
homepage = http://and1.com

AND1 is an athletic shoe company specializing in basketball shoes and apparel. Founded in 1993, its US headquarters was located in Paoli, Pennsylvania before being relocated to Aliso Viejo, California.

Company history

In 1993, AND1 began as a graduate school project partnership of Seth Berger, Jay Coen Gilbert and Abraham Osondu while they were graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania. The company name is derivedFact|date=March 2007 from a phrase used by basketball broadcasters: when a player is fouled while shooting, makes the shot and makes the awarded foul shot as well, they score the points for the made basket "and 1" for the made free throw. cite web | url = http://www.nbcbasketball.co.uk/and1_history.htm | title = AND1 History | work = NBC Basketball (UK) | accessdate = 2007-03-15 ] Early advertising strategies, used to distinguish their products from others, included other basketball slogans and trash talk, such as "Pass. Save Yourself The Embarrassment".

In mid of 1996, NBA star Stephon Marbury became the first spokesman for AND1 and once had his own name brand AND1 shoe called "Starbury".

In late 1998, a videotape containing streetball stunts was deliveredFact|date=March 2007 to AND1 by Ron Naclerio, coach of the Benjamin Cardozo High school team in Queens, New York. The tape contained low quality camera moves, poor resolution and nearly indecipherable audio featuring a streetballer by the name of Rafer Alston. At the time, Alston was a student at Fresno State who had entered the 1998 NBA Draft. The videotape would soon be known as the "Skip tape", referring to Alston's streetball nickname "Skip to my Lou".Fact|date=March 2007 Alston later signed AND1's first endorsement deal.

In 1999 at Haverford College in Philadelphia, AND1 shot their first series of commercials and print ads incorporating NBA players Darrell Armstrong, Rex Chapman, Ab Osondu, Raef LaFrentz, Toby Bailey, and Miles Simon. When the traditional marketing campaign proved unsuccessful, a strategy was formed to use the "Skip tape". It was edited and reprinted into 50,000 copies and over the next eight weeks, distributed across basketball camps, clinics, record labels. The tape would become the first "Mix Tape", and quickly made Alston into a celebrity. citeweb | title=AND1 history | url=http://www.wizards.2points.ru/and1/history.htm AND1 history |accessdate = 2006-12-06 ] When AND1 became a product partner with FootAction, this strategy evolved into a national program. They perform radical spin moves and dunks. They also perform and have their own company.Beginning in the Summer of 1999, a free AND1 Mix Tape was given with any purchase. Approximately 200,000 tapes were distributed in the span of 3 weeks, making this promotion one of the most successful in U.S. retail history. Filmmakers were then sent across the country to capture and find the next streetball legend. [ cite web | work = Chicago Sports Review | url=http://www.chicagosportsreview.com/redesign/inprint/contentview.asp?c=167978 | title = Chicago Sports Review -RIP Flash 1975-2004- | accessdate = 2006-12-06 ]

AND1 Mixtape Tour

" as Game On.

* Hugh Jones aka Baby Shack
* Grayson Boucher aka The Professor
* Andre Poole aka Silk
* Tony Jones aka Go Get It
* John Humphrey aka Helicopter
* Jerry Dupree aka The Assassin
* Troy Jackson aka Escalade
* Kenny Brunner aka Bad Santa aka The Bad One
* Antwan Scott aka 8th Wonder
* Jamal Nelson aka Springs
* Baby Joe

Video games

EA's NBA Street, published in 2001, featured dunks and passes in AND1 fashion, but was licensed from the NBA. In 2002, Activision announced the first AND1 video game called Street Hoops, featuring AND1 players. Gameloft has also released a mobile game based on the AND1 franchise.

{|class="wikitable"! Title ! Publisher! Developer! Platform! Release Date
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Street Hoops || Activision || Black Ops Entertainment || Playstation 2, Xbox, Gamecube || November 28, 2002
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AND1 Streetball || Ubisoft || Black Ops Entertainment || Playstation 2, Xbox || April 10, 2006
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References

External links

* [http://and1.com Company website]
* [http://www.pe1-ballers.com AND1 Style Streetball]
* [http://and1.com/forum/ Official AND1 forum]
* [http://www.chicagosportsreview.com/redesign12/6/2006/inprint/contentview.asp?c=167978 And1: Well-Fed Street Cred (The Chicago Sports Review - October 2005)]
* [http://streetballvideos.net/and-1/ StreetballVideos.net's And1 Page]