Vans is an American shoe company based in California that originally produced shoes for skateboarders. While Vans started as a skate shoe brand, they now produce a wide variety of casual and athletic shoes that appeal to a broad audience. Vans remains popular due to collaborations with other brands and artists, customization options, and maintaining their roots in skate and action sports culture through advertising and sponsorships. Major competitors include Converse, Nike SB, and DC Shoes, which also produce shoes for skateboarding and action sports.

2. Vans is an American company that manufactures shoes based in
California USA.
They produce gear originally made for skaters but are now very
common for usual people to wear and also make gear for other
sports like Bmx-ing, Surf and skiing
WHAT IS IT
One of vans unique selling points is that it does
many collaborations with other brands/
companies and artists they even do
collaborations with Charites to raise awareness
. They make limited shoes making a high
demand for them
Some collaborations include
Star wars , Supreme , Disney and Odd Future
Vans also has its own customizer where it allows people to
chose which shoes they want to customise and pick
patterns, colours, materials and stitching . This makes their
products more personal with the consumers and makes
them feel like they have some control

3. HISTORYVans began on the 16th of March 1966 in Anaheim California.
founder Paul van Doren had three partners and due to those four
people Vans opened its first store. Shoes were quickly made, people
ordered in the morning and was ready by the afternoon.
Vans became widely known by skateboards due to its functionality
to remain on top of boards resulting in sales going up in the 1970s,
1995 Vans were the shoe of choice for the skateboarding culture.
One of its main designs that pumped Vans popularity was the Vans
slip-Ons, these shoes were all the cool kids wore and it was a rage in
southern California and sales began international. Van made other
designs for different sports such as baseball, basketball and even
skydiving. Even though vans was selling really well they started to run
out of resources and right after they went bankrupt.
During the 1970s the company continued to grow, Skateboarders
who liked Vans’ rugged make-up and sticky sole were seen wearing
Vans all over Southern California in the early 1970s. In 1975 the Vans
“95” known today as the “Era” was designed by professional
skateboarder Tony Alva and skateboarding figure Stacy Peralta
which boosted their sales.
2000s, Steve Van Doren and the son of Paul Van Doren, remain with
the company, as does his sister Cheryl and his daughter Kristy. In
2000 and 2001, Forbes

4. Vans were originally created for skateboarders, however vans
are now extremely popular as they have a wide variety to suit
everyone's taste.
They come in different styles, colours and patterns, they are also
extremely comfortable. I have personally come across many
adults both men and women wearing vans while travelling to
and from work. I have also witnessed children and toddlers
playing and running around with them on their feet. They shoes
are common with teens as they are very trendy.
From what I have stated it is easy to see that the target audience
starts from 13, however children still wear the shoes but they are
not aimed at them. The target roughly ends when the buyer is in
their 30’s, any older 30 is rare I mean can you imagine your
grandparents in a pair?
Vans aren’t very expensive so they are affordable for people
,upper middle, lower and working class to purchase.
TARGET AUDIENCE

5. PAST ADSVans Parade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACNnzM040J8&feature=youtu.be
Parameter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esgsrK6ua0I
Star Wars
https://youtu.be/omjMG1JU21s?t=39s
Vans previous adverts usually all have one common
element which it its skating roots, they almost always
feature someone skating in them or a group of young
people wearing the footwear and having fun. They
always emphasise on were they started as in the star
wars advert the theme is the 1966 bowl skating craze
which vans was very popular with.
Vans also promotes their shoes in forms of short
documentary's or mini series on a certain person /
skater and their experience in the skating world and
what vans is to them inspiring people to wear the shoes

6. COMPETITORS Vans is a well known brand that majors in a lot of different areas when it comes to clothing.
This also means that there are a lot of other companies that are doing the same this as the
vans company. 3 companies that are currently the vans companies biggest competitors
are converse, Nike SB and DC ,all which are well know brands that are similar to vans.
Converse - Converse are an American shoe company that consist of sportswear and
lifestyle brand footwear. Converse has been around ever since 1908 and in 2003 the
company was purchased for $305 million as a subsidiary by Nike Inc. One of there most
known and legendary models of converse are the Chuck Taylor which was well known by
a lot of the youth. Knowing that there model of sneakers was very well known they remade
the model and made the Chuck Taylor II. One of the thing that make converse and vans
alike are that they are both brands that pro skaters use.
Nike SB - Nike skateboarding, also known as Nike SB, is the a line under the well known
brand Nike Inc. Nike SB are a skateboard concentrated brand that supplies shoes, clothing
and equipment for skateboarding. In 1997 Nike Inc decided to reach out to there
skateboarding community and made its own line for skate shoes but because of there
competitors at that time like DC, Globe, Vans etc. they was not able to fully lift the
company off of the ground. It was only until 2002 Nike SB released the Nike SB Dunk Low
model which had a padded tongue and collars and a similar sole to the major
skateboarding trainers and that one model was the model that launched off Nike SB’s
career and has now made them one of the best skateboarding trainer companies along
with vans, converse, DC etc.
DC shoes – DC Shoes is an American company that specializes in footwear for action
sports, including skateboarding and snowboarding. This company also does bags,
accessories, hats, shirts and posters. DC shoes is also one of the skateboarding brands that
are highly praised when it comes to skateboarding, so much that DC shoe is seen as one of
the forefathers when it come to people mentioning skateboarding shoes. In March 2014 DC
Shoes was brought by quicksilver for $87 million. This is one of vans biggest competitors
because it has gained such high respect from everyone. But on the other hand the shape of
the shoes for vans plays a big advantage as not that many people like DC Shoes trainer
designs

7. STORY BOARD