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The company refused to comment on whether store supplies would see shortages as a result of the outbreak.
About half of Nike's shoes were manufactured in Vietnam in the last financial year, so this will mean challenges for its supply chain.
Vietnam has seen a record rise in cases since last April with many infection clusters in its industrial provinces.
Apple, Samsung and Puma could also be affected by the surge in cases recorded at suppliers' factories in the country.
"The health & safety of our teammates, as well as that of our suppliers, remains our top priority," a statement from Nike said.
Nike said the company would continue khổng lồ work with its suppliers to support them in response lớn the rise in Covid cases.
"We are confident in Nike's ability to navigate these near-term dynamics, and we remain prudent in our planning," the statement added.
One of Nike's worst affected suppliers in the region, Pou Chen Corp, also makes footwear for Adidas & is the world's largest manufacturer of branded trainers.
It suspended operations at its plant in Ho chi Minh city on Wednesday due to the outbreak in infections.
In a statement, the country's health ministry said Pou Chen's Pouyuen Vietnam factory would be suspended for 10 days.
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The factory is Ho bỏ ra Minh City's largest employer, with a total of 56,000 workers. But it was unable khổng lồ stay mở cửa and arrange for its workers to lớn sleep at the factory, as was required by authorities lớn limit the spread of infections, according lớn the health ministry.
Similar challenges could also be faced for Puma, whose footwear is also manufactured in the country. Apple and Samsung also have large suppliers in the worst affected factories in the northern region of Vietnam.
Apple did not give a bình luận on whether the outbreak will mean tác phẩm shortages in shops, while Adidas, Puma và Samsung did not immediately respond lớn the maimoikethon.com's request for comment.
Samsung makes around half of its phones in Vietnam and has had to stop work at three factories in Ho Chin Minh City. According to the health ministry's website, Samsung Electronics is planning for workers lớn sleep at the plants and has currently cut its staffing to lớn 3,000 from 7,000.
Many firms had begun to move their production from trung quốc to countries such as Vietnam as a result of challenges from tariffs over the course of the pandemic.
Dr Patsy Perry, senior lecturer in fashion business at Manchester Metropolitan University, told the maimoikethon.com these problems are compounded by the Covid-related surge in demand for athletic wear as people have been spending more time at home.
Bu, Dr Perry said that Nike's manufacturing bản đồ means it could potentially move production the other countries, depending how agile its supply chain relationships are.
"Costs might increase in the short term if it needs to move production into more expensive areas, but it's more important lớn service demand than risking a stock-out situation," Dr Perry added.
Dr Steve New, professor of operations management at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School, told the đài truyền hình maimoikethon.com that previously, because Vietnam has been effective at containing Covid, it has been able to respond rapidly with short local shutdowns. But he said that as the situation worsens, "it will be much harder lớn pursue this approach without much more significant disruption to the supply chain."
Vietnam has vaccinated around 4% of its 100 million population. Its capital Hanoi has stopped all non-essential services due khổng lồ new clusters of Covid infections và on Sunday urged its citizens to stay at home.
The government added factory workers khổng lồ its vaccine priority danh sách after the rise in cases in late April forced manufacturing areas in the north of the country to lớn close.
