Nike renames headquarters to honour founder
Sports brand Nike is renaming its 400-acre World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, to honour its co-founder and chairman emeritus, Philip Knight.
The Philip H. Knight (PHK) Campus will serve as a tribute to his legacy, CEO Elliott Hill announced in an email marking his one-year anniversary in the role.
The first stage of the campus, opened in October 1990, united Nike employees into six buildings that took the names of elite athletes: Joan Benoit Samuelson, Michael Jordan, John McEnroe, Steve Prefontaine and Mike Schmidt.
Nike’s growth in the 1990s, and the hiring spike that ensued, prompted an expansion that roughly doubled the size of the campus, with new buildings named after Ken Griffey Jr, Mia Hamm, Jerry Rice and Pete Sampras.
The most recent additions to the campus are the LeBron James Innovation Centre, which opened in 2021 and is home to the Nike Sport Research Lab, and the Serena Williams Building, which opened in 2022 as Nike’s biggest investment in design and creativity.
Nike also operates a European headquarters in the Netherlands (opened in 1999); Greater China Headquarters in Shanghai (2013); and Converse World Headquarters in Boston (2015).
