Where Does Nike Make Its Shoes and Clothes? 2026 Factory and Supplier Guide

If you are wondering where Nike makes its shoes and clothes, the short answer is that Nike makes almost everything through a global network of independent contract manufacturers, with production concentrated in Vietnam, Indonesia, and China. In Nike's fiscal year 2026, which ended May 31, 2026, Vietnamese factories produced about 52% of Nike footwear, Indonesia about 27%, and China about 16%. Nike owns none of those factories, though it does own a small number of component plants of its own. That strategy is not just about cost. It is about specialization, scale, resilience, and avoiding overreliance on any single country.

Knowing that a Nike shoe was made in Vietnam does not tell you much about who actually made it. So this guide goes further than the country percentages. We pulled Nike's FY2026 annual filing and Nike's own public Manufacturing Map, which lists every contract factory Nike discloses, and used them to name the manufacturers behind Nike footwear and apparel, show where their plants sit, count the workers in them, and point to each company's official business contact channel.

Supplier data last verified: September 2026, against Nike's FY2026 Form 10-K and Nike's Manufacturing Map. Nike refreshes that map regularly, so treat facility counts as a snapshot rather than a permanent figure.

The Short Answer: Nike Uses Hundreds of Manufacturers Around the World

Nike does not own the factories that make its finished shoes and clothing. Instead, it contracts with independent manufacturers across dozens of countries. According to Nike's FY2026 Form 10-K:

• Footwear: 15 contract manufacturers operating 95 finished goods factories in 11 countries.
• Apparel: 64 contract manufacturers operating 321 finished goods factories in 34 countries.
• Materials: 205 strategic Tier 2 suppliers providing the principal materials used in those finished goods.

Nike's own Manufacturing Map goes a level deeper than the filing. Read in September 2026, it disclosed 710 facilities across 37 countries employing about 1.3 million workers, split into 504 Tier 1 finished goods factories and 206 Tier 2 materials and component facilities. Of those, 673 facilities produce for the Nike brand and 37 produce for Converse. The map's apparel count matches the 10-K exactly, which is a useful sign that the two disclosures are the same vintage.

The exact distribution shifts each year based on demand, supplier relationships, cost, and tariff conditions.

Where Does Nike Make Its Shoes? (FY2026 Country Breakdown)

Nike makes its shoes in 11 countries, but three of them account for almost all footwear output. Based on Nike's FY2026 reporting, the footwear country split is:

• Vietnam, about 52% of total Nike footwear. Vietnam is Nike's single largest shoe-producing country and has held the top spot since it overtook China in 2010.
• Indonesia, about 27%, concentrated on Java, with deep experience in high-volume athletic and lifestyle footwear.
• China, about 16%, focused on technically complex, high-specification models and faster prototyping.
• The remaining few percent is spread across countries such as India, Brazil, Italy, and Argentina, several of which serve regional markets rather than global supply.

Footwear is also far more concentrated at the supplier level than the country split suggests. Nike discloses that four footwear contract manufacturers each accounted for more than 10% of production in FY2026, and together made roughly 60% of all Nike footwear. Nike does not name them in the filing.

So when someone asks where Nike shoes are manufactured, the accurate answer in 2026 is: mostly Vietnam, then Indonesia, then China, made by 15 contract manufacturers across 95 factories, with four of those manufacturers doing most of the work. Because Vietnam dominates footwear, brands studying Nike's playbook often look there first, and our complete guide to sourcing from Vietnam covers the suppliers, costs, and logistics involved.

Where Does Nike Make Its Clothes and Apparel?

Nike makes its clothes through a separate and much broader manufacturing network than its footwear. Apparel is produced by 64 contract manufacturers running 321 factories across 34 countries. The FY2026 apparel country split is led by:

• Vietnam, about 34% of Nike apparel, again the largest single source, and up from about 31% the year before.
• Cambodia, about 15%, a major hub for cut-and-sew clothing.
• China, about 12%, important for technical and higher-specification garments.
• Other meaningful apparel countries include Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and India for cotton and knit-based products.

Apparel supplier concentration is lower than footwear but still real: two apparel contract manufacturers each accounted for more than 10% of production in FY2026, and the top six together accounted for roughly 54%.

Apparel is more geographically spread than footwear because garment production has lower capital barriers and more countries can do it competitively. Nike shirts, hoodies, shorts, and jackets typically come from cut-and-sew factories in Southeast Asia rather than the footwear-specialized plants that build its shoes. Brands launching their own clothing lines work with category specialists the same way, so see how a private label clothing manufacturer fits apparel programs at smaller scale.

Who Manufactures Nike, and Does Nike Own Any Factories?

The usual answer, that Nike owns no factories at all, is not quite right. The accurate version is more interesting.

Nike relies on independent contract manufacturers for effectively all of its finished footwear and apparel. Nike designs and develops products in-house, then contracts out production. That is the textbook contract manufacturing model, the same OEM and ODM manufacturing arrangement that powers most global consumer brands.

But Nike does own manufacturing capacity for one thing. Air Manufacturing Innovation, a wholly owned Nike subsidiary, produces Nike Air-Sole and other cushioning components at facilities near Beaverton, Oregon, in St. Charles, Missouri, and in Dong Nai City, Vietnam, alongside contract manufacturers in China and Vietnam that make the same components. Those Air MI plants do not appear on Nike's Manufacturing Map, because that map discloses contract factories rather than Nike-owned ones.

So the precise answer is this: Nike outsources finished shoe and apparel manufacturing entirely, while keeping in-house manufacturing capability for its proprietary cushioning components. The one piece of the shoe that is hardest to copy is the one piece Nike still makes itself. That is a deliberate choice about where to own capacity, and it is a useful question for any brand to ask about its own product.

Working with a broad network of manufacturers also supports diversification. When production is spread across multiple countries, a disruption in one region does not shut down the whole operation. That kind of resilience is relevant for brands building resilient supplier networks at every size.

Who Are Nike's Biggest Manufacturers?

Nike does not name its largest contract manufacturers in its filings, but it does disclose every contract factory, its operator, and its headcount. Grouping those disclosed facilities by parent supplier gives you the answer the filing withholds.

By total workforce across all disclosed Nike footwear facilities, the four largest footwear supplier groups are Feng Tay, Taekwang, Pou Chen, and Changshin. Between them they run 40 disclosed footwear facilities employing about 336,000 workers. That is the best available public read on the four manufacturers that Nike says each produce more than 10% of its footwear.

Nike footwear supplier groups, by disclosed workforce

Two corrections worth making, because they appear in a lot of published writing on this topic. Changshin is South Korean, not Taiwanese; the group is headquartered in Busan and has run footwear plants in Vietnam since 1995. And Fulgent Sun, often listed as a major Nike footwear supplier, does not appear anywhere in Nike's current disclosed factory list. It is a real and substantial footwear manufacturer, but its Nike relationship is not evidenced in Nike's current disclosure, so we do not list it here.

On the apparel side the picture is flatter, with more suppliers doing smaller volumes. The largest disclosed apparel groups include Shenzhou International (China, also a Tier 2 fabric supplier), Style Textile (Pakistan), MAS Holdings (Sri Lanka), Ramatex (Malaysia), Nice Apparel, Eclat Textile (Taiwan), Sabrina, Eagle Nice (Hong Kong), South Island, Far Eastern New Century (Taiwan), Delta Galil (Israel), and Crystal International (Hong Kong). Vietnamese-owned manufacturers such as TNG and Maxport also appear in Nike's apparel network.

Nike Supplier Contacts and Official Business Channels

Below are the official corporate contact channels for manufacturers in Nike's disclosed network. We have deliberately published only contact details that each company publishes itself, plus the official website you can reach it through. Where we could not verify a current public business contact, we say so rather than republishing an old employee email address from a supplier directory.

Inside Nike's Vietnam Supply Chain

Vietnam is not simply Nike's largest country. It is a dense, specialized cluster, and the shape of it is visible in Nike's own disclosure. As of our September 2026 reading of Nike's Manufacturing Map, Vietnam held 182 disclosed Nike supplier facilities employing about 494,000 workers. That is roughly 40% of everyone working in Nike's entire disclosed supply chain, in one country.

Those 182 facilities break down as 127 Tier 1 finished goods factories and 55 Tier 2 materials and component facilities. By product category, 97 make apparel, 67 make footwear, and 18 make equipment. Note what that says about scale: Vietnam has more apparel plants than footwear plants, but the footwear plants are far larger, which is why Vietnam makes 52% of Nike's shoes and 34% of its clothing.

Where Nike's Vietnamese factories are clustered

The practical read for a sourcing team is that Nike's Vietnam network is not evenly spread. Dong Nai alone holds more Nike supply chain workers than most entire countries in Nike's network. If you are looking for footwear capability with an established export and compliance track record, that is where the density is. If you are looking for apparel, the cluster around Ho Chi Minh City and the northern provinces is broader and includes far more mid-sized factories.

The Tier 2 layer almost nobody covers

Underneath the assembly factories sits the materials layer. Nike reported 205 strategic Tier 2 suppliers in FY2026, and its Manufacturing Map discloses 206 Tier 2 facilities employing roughly 154,000 workers. These are the companies making the parts of the shoe you never see on a label: zippers and trims, insoles, webbing and hook-and-loop, synthetic leather, tanned leather, foams, and plastic components.

Named Tier 2 suppliers in Nike's disclosed network include YKK (zippers and trims), Paiho Group (webbing and fasteners), Avery Dennison (labels and trims), Ortholite (insoles), Prime Asia and Tong Hong Tannery (leather), Framas (plastic footwear components), Formosa Taffeta and San Fang (fabrics and synthetic leather).

This layer matters more than most brands expect. A factory can only build what its material supply chain can deliver, at the lead time that supply chain can hold. When a brand tells us a factory quote came back slower or pricier than expected, the cause is usually upstream, in materials, not on the assembly line.

Does Nike Make Anything in the United States?

Yes, but not the way most people assume. Nike's disclosed network includes 28 facilities in the United States, and almost all of them are apparel decoration, screen printing, embroidery, and licensed team product operations rather than cut-and-sew manufacturing. They are small: most employ under 300 people, and several employ fewer than 50.

The two genuinely interesting American exceptions are Nike's own Air Manufacturing Innovation plants near Beaverton, Oregon and in St. Charles, Missouri, which are Nike-owned rather than contracted, and a single disclosed footwear facility in Austin, Texas operated by Zellerfeld, the 3D-printed footwear company, with a headcount in the dozens.

The honest takeaway for a brand that wants to make in America is that Nike is not the model to copy. Nike's US footprint is decoration and component innovation, not volume production. If domestic manufacturing is a real goal for your brand, the path runs through different supplier categories entirely, which is what our work on reshoring is built around.

What Countries Does Nike Manufacture In?

Nike's disclosed production network spans 37 countries, and the exact mix changes based on season, product line, and trade conditions. Based on Nike's fiscal year reporting, the company's most significant manufacturing hubs are Vietnam, Indonesia, and China, with other countries playing meaningful roles in apparel, materials, and regional production.

Vietnam

Vietnam is Nike's single largest manufacturing country, at about 52% of footwear and 34% of apparel, built on competitive labor costs, incentives for foreign manufacturers, and strong port infrastructure. For brands exploring their own options, the draw is the depth of the supplier ecosystem, not just the scale, which makes it a common first step for anyone looking to diversify away from overreliance on any single market. Learn more about manufacturing in Vietnam →

China

China has fallen to about 16% of footwear and 12% of apparel, but it remains critical. Its factories, clustered in Guangdong, Fujian, and Jiangsu, handle technically complex work, and China is still heavily represented in Nike's Tier 2 materials network. Its real value is deep supplier ecosystems, advanced materials, and speed of prototyping, which is why many brands keep China in their sourcing mix even while diversifying elsewhere. Manufacturing in China → · How tariffs affect sourcing from China →

Indonesia, Cambodia, India, and Mexico

Indonesia is the second-largest footwear source at about 27%, concentrated on Java, and home to Pratama Abadi, one of the largest single-country footwear groups in Nike's network. Cambodia is now Nike's second-largest apparel source at about 15%, ahead of China, and is a cut-and-sew hub. India contributes textiles and cotton-based garments, plus footwear through Feng Tay plants, and its textile industry is worth considering for knits and wovens as part of a diversified strategy.

Mexico barely features in Nike's network, with only a handful of disclosed apparel facilities, but it is one of the most relevant countries for brands selling into the U.S. Nearshoring to Mexico buys shorter transit, time zone alignment, simpler freight, and potential tariff benefits under agreements like the USMCA, which matters when speed to market, logistics efficiency, and tariff strategy are priorities. Manufacturing in Mexico →

From China to Vietnam: How Nike's Manufacturing Map Shifted

Nike's footwear map looked very different a generation ago. In the early 2000s, China was Nike's number-one shoe producer, making roughly 40% of footwear. Rising Chinese labor costs, Vietnam's investment in footwear capacity, and a deliberate push to diversify gradually flipped that ranking. Vietnam overtook China around 2010 and has widened the gap ever since, reaching about 52% in FY2026 while China fell to roughly 16%. The shift accelerated as trade tensions and tariffs made overconcentration in China riskier. It is a real-world case study in why brands should not anchor their entire supply chain to one country, and the same trade-offs are laid out in our guide on sourcing from Vietnam, China, and Mexico.

Can You Contact a Nike Factory and Ask It to Make Your Product?

Yes, you can contact them. Whether they will work with you is a different question, and for most brands the honest answer is no, at least not yet.

Factories running Nike-scale programs are built around very large production volumes, long development cycles, approved material supply chains, dedicated quality systems, testing protocols, and capacity planned out quarters in advance. A supplier appearing on this page is not an open invitation for new business. Whether a manufacturer takes your project depends on your product, your target cost, your order quantity, your development requirements, and whatever capacity is genuinely uncommitted.

Here is what typically decides it:

• Volume. A plant with 30,000 workers is not set up to quote a 500-unit first order. The cost of onboarding you exceeds the margin on the run.
• Category fit. A cemented-construction athletic footwear line cannot easily produce a welted boot. Machinery and lasts are specific.
• Material access. Big programs run on approved, pre-qualified materials. If your spec sits outside that library, lead times and costs change sharply.
• Compliance load. Audit, testing, and documentation requirements that a large brand absorbs easily can be heavy for a small one.
• Capacity timing. Even a willing factory may have nothing uncommitted for two or three seasons.

For that reason the best factory for a growing brand is usually not the largest Nike supplier. It is a manufacturer with comparable construction capability, similar machinery, access to the same material ecosystem, and a quality system built to the same logic, but with commercial requirements that match your order size. Those factories exist in the same industrial parks, often a few kilometers from the plants in the table above, and frequently employ people trained in them.

That is the practical difference between knowing which factory makes Nike shoes and knowing which factory will make yours. If you want to work through it methodically, our step-by-step guide to finding overseas manufacturers and our factory audit checklist cover the identification and qualification stages, and securing workable MOQs covers the negotiation.

How Nike Makes Its Products, Step by Step

Nike makes its products through a five-stage process that separates design from manufacturing. Nike controls the front end, concept, design, and materials specification, while contract factories handle physical production. Here is how a Nike shoe or garment goes from idea to finished good:

1. Design and development. Products are designed at Nike's World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, where designers and engineers create the patterns, specifications, and tech packs that define every component.
2. Material selection and sourcing. Nike specifies materials, and its Tier 2 suppliers produce the textiles, foam, rubber, and trims. Nike's contract manufacturers buy those principal materials themselves, mostly in the same country where the product is assembled, which cuts lead time and freight.
3. Contract factory production. Tier 1 contract factories cut, sew, and assemble the product. For footwear that means building the upper, lasting it over a mold, and bonding it to the outsole; for apparel it means cutting fabric and stitching garments.
4. Quality control. Products pass through multi-stage inspection, inline checks during production and final inspection before packing. Disciplined QC is the difference between a consistent product and an expensive recall, which is why a factory audit checklist matters before you place an order.
5. Packing and distribution. Finished goods are packed and shipped, mostly by ocean freight, to regional distribution centers, then on to retail and e-commerce customers.

The takeaway for smaller brands: you do not need to own a factory to make a great product. You need a clear design spec, the right contract manufacturer, and a real QC process at every stage.

Where Does Nike Source Its Raw Materials?

Nike sources its raw materials through its Tier 2 suppliers, and it is the contract manufacturers, not Nike, that actually buy them. Most are bought and processed in the same host country where the finished product is assembled, which shortens lead times and lowers freight. Nike names the principal materials in its FY2026 filing:

• For footwear: natural and synthetic rubber, plastic compounds, foam cushioning materials, natural and synthetic leather, nylon, polyester and natural fiber textiles, and the polyurethane films used to make Nike Air-Sole cushioning components.
• For apparel: natural and synthetic fabrics, yarns, trims and threads, both virgin and recycled, specialized performance fabrics engineered to wick moisture, retain heat, or repel rain and snow, plus plastic and metal hardware.

Nike reported that in FY2026 its contract manufacturers were able to source sufficient quantities of raw materials, which is not something a brand can take for granted. Materials shortages and price spikes are a recurring risk that Nike calls out explicitly in its filings.

One more detail worth knowing, because it says something about how long these relationships run: since 1972, Sojitz Corporation of America has performed import-export financing services for Nike. Trade finance is part of the machinery of a supply chain this size, and it is a piece most growing brands underestimate.

Because materials are sourced across this many categories and countries, dozens of countries are involved in creating the inputs for a single Nike product, even though final assembly happens in a smaller set. For brands building their own products, where your fabrics, foams, and trims come from affects cost, quality, and lead time just as much as where the final product is assembled.

How Many Countries Does Nike Manufacture In, and Why Overseas?

Nike's disclosed supply chain spans 37 countries, with finished goods made in 11 countries for footwear and 34 for apparel, and a wider set of countries supplying raw materials. Nike manufactures overseas, and owns no domestic finished-goods plants, for the same reasons most global consumer brands do: cost, specialized labor, scale, and proximity to material ecosystems that the United States no longer concentrates. The footwear and garment expertise, machinery, and supplier clusters that Nike depends on are densest in Southeast Asia, not North America.

Spreading that production across dozens of countries rather than concentrating it is deliberate, and the reasoning transfers to brands of any size:

• Capacity. No single country can absorb hundreds of millions of units a year without bottlenecks.
• Category specialization. A deep footwear tradition is a different asset than expertise in technical textiles or garment construction.
• Material ecosystems. Proximity to mills, trim suppliers, and component makers drives both turnaround and quality control.
• Freight and distribution. Producing closer to the consumer market cuts cost and transit, which makes shipping terms a real lever.
• Redundancy. If a factory closes or a port shuts, a diversified network keeps running, which is the logic behind switching suppliers without disruption.
• Tariff and geopolitical risk. Single-country concentration means sudden cost increases when policy moves, so tariff mitigation matters to every importer.
• Compliance. Operating across regulatory environments forces real auditing and vetting systems rather than one trusted relationship.

If you are weighing how to apply the same logic to your own brand, our step-by-step guide to finding overseas manufacturers walks through how to identify, vet, and qualify factories abroad.

What Brands Can Learn From Nike's Supplier Strategy

Most smaller brands cannot source like Nike. They do not have the volume, the leverage, or the internal sourcing teams. But three of Nike's actual advantages are available at any scale.

Depth beats novelty. Nike's edge is not that it found cheap Asian manufacturing. It is that the same factory groups appear in its disclosure year after year. Feng Tay has been building Nike shoes since the 1970s and Changshin opened its Vietnam plants in 1995. Nike says more than 90% of its footwear and branded apparel comes from groups it has worked with for over 15 years. That continuity, not the country, is the asset, which is why building long-term supplier relationships pays off well below Nike's volumes.

Capability has to match the product. A factory that makes great t-shirts is not the right partner for performance outerwear or structured footwear, and the same is true across private label clothing, injection molding, and CNC manufacturing. Where your fabrics, trims, and components come from shapes cost and lead time as much as where assembly happens.

And yes, you can manufacture in the same countries Nike uses. Vietnam, China, Indonesia, Cambodia, and Mexico are all open to smaller brands, just not through Nike's exact factories, materials, or designs. The job is finding a manufacturer whose category expertise, minimum order quantity structure, and quality systems fit your stage. Spreading that across more than one supplier and more than one country is worth doing early, and our country comparisons lay out the trade-offs.

Importivity helps brands do exactly that: match category fit, target pricing, quality expectations, minimum order quantities, shipping strategy, and supplier vetting against real factories in markets like Vietnam, Mexico, and China.

Supplier Oversight, Sustainability, and Compliance

Publishing a facility-level map with names, addresses, and worker counts is itself a compliance posture, and it is the reason an article like this one can be written from primary sources at all. The lesson for everyone else is that country selection is only part of the equation. The real question is whether a specific factory meets your standards for quality, documentation, labor practices, and traceability. Audits, environmental reporting, and forced labor compliance are not optional extras once customers, regulators, and retail partners start asking, so sourcing ethically and sustainably belongs in the decision from the start, along with sustainable packaging choices.

If you want to see what this looks like on a live project rather than in a guide, Source With Jordan is where we publish the sourcing itself.

Final Takeaway

Nike's supply chain is not built around one best country. It is built around specialization and supplier relationships measured in decades. The goal is not to copy that setup or get a quote from Nike's exact factory, but to apply the same logic at your own scale: match the product to the right factory type, understand the materials layer beneath it, and build a supply chain that can adapt. Manufacturing footprints change constantly, so check the current facility list on Nike's Manufacturing Map and the percentages against Nike's most recent annual filing.

How Does Nike Transport Its Products?

Nike moves the vast majority of its finished footwear and apparel by ocean freight, shipping containers from factory ports in Vietnam, China, and Indonesia to regional distribution centers in North America and Europe. Air freight is reserved for time-sensitive product launches and restocks because it costs several times more per kilogram. From distribution centers, products move to retail and e-commerce customers via ground carriers. For a breakdown of how brands choose between these modes, see our sea vs air freight comparison.

Thinking about building your own production line in Vietnam or China the way Nike has? Start with our China vs Vietnam manufacturing comparison, or talk to our manufacturer sourcing team about vetted factories in both countries.