Can you give me the history of the Dassler brothers?
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Ah yes, the Dassler brothers were the founders of the famous Adidas and Puma companies. The Dassler brothers, Adolf and Rudolf, were born in Herzogenaurach, Germany in 1920 and 1922 respectively. Adolf began making shoes as a young boy, and the brothers started producing athletic shoes together in their mother’s laundry room in the 1930s. They initially named their company "Ruda" after their mother Rosa, but later changed it to Adidas after borrowing the name from a rival German athlete.  The Adidas brand became very popular with German athletes and was an important symbol of national identity during the rise of the Third Reich in the 1930s. After World War II the Adidas brand became a globally renowned symbol of athletic excellence, popularized by the Olympic Gold medal winning runner Jesse Owens, as well as Charlie Parker andMuhammad Ali among others. Meanwhile Puma was founded in 1920 by Adolf's younger brother Rudolf, and initially competed directly with Adidas as a lower-cost alternative.  The Puma brand ultimately surpassed Adidas in global sales, thanks largely to winning endorsement deals with athletes and pop cultural icons such as David Beckham, Michael Jordan, and Britney Spears. Today the two companies are rivals in the athletic shoe industry, battling for global market share and celebrity endorsement deals.
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Can you give me the history of the Dassler brothers?
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The Dassler brothers, Adolf “Adi” Dassler and Rudolf Dassler, were the founders of the famous sports shoe company “Adidas”.  The brothers started their shoe company in the 1920s as a small retail store selling only their own hand-made athletic shoes.  The company prospered, and by the 1940s they were manufacturing shoes by the tens of thousands.  The brothers had a bitter business rivalry, however, and in 1949 Adi founded the competing company “Puma” together with his former business partner and brother in law, Jakob “Huppert” Weiss.  They later had a falling out, and Adi again struck out on his own, founding the third major shoe company “Bata”.  Adi’s company “Adidas” eventually surpassed both Puma and Bata to become the largest and most well known sporting goods manufacturer in the world.  Rudolf founded the fourth major shoe company “Fila” in the 1950s, which remains a major competitor to Adidas today.
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Can you give me the history of the Dassler brothers?