

To persons with disabilities including users of screen reader technology. Of its Website, Titelmedia strives to ensure that its Website services and content are accessible Titelmedia (Highsnobiety), is committed to facilitating and improving the accessibility and usability As Bill's wife Barbara told The Oregonian years later: Now protected under United States patent #3,793,750, Bill's idea was essentially a track spike without the spikes.

The origins of the Oregon Waffle, afterwards named the Waffle Trainer, derive from Bowerman's experiments with a simple waffle iron, the grooves of which proved to be a near perfect mold for a running shoe. In the early 1970s, Oregon's Hayward Field, where Bill worked for years, was transitioning from a crushed cinder track to an artificial surface, and Bowerman was searching for a running shoe solution that would be suitable for multiple surfaces. Today it's a story that is thoroughly embedded in sneaker folklore, but Nike's first pair of running shoes may never have taken form if not for one particular breakfast food. These impressive stats belie Nike's humble origins as a quiet initiative undertaken at the University of Oregon by running coach Bill Bowerman and pupil Phil Knight. Last year, Nike reported a fiscal revenue of $32.4 billion, representing 6 percent growth from 2015, and as of May 2016 Forbes ranked the brand with the Swoosh as the 18th biggest on the planet.
