Has Nike Or Anyone Else Ever Owned Asics? Kihachiro Onitsuka is the only person that has ever had full ownership of the Asics company. However, despite this, Asics has had a very interesting history when it comes to business partnerships, with one of the most intriguing ones being with Nike.

With fresh looks and designs and the performance to back it up, Asics is leading the way in giving runners what they want. We've run a ton of miles in all of these shoes, and can tell you that these are the best they have.

They don't just randomly decide they are going to jack up the price of a pair of shoes. It's because the shoes they are making are lasting longer and are made better with more sophisticated materials.

Later, the company name is changed to ASICS, an acronym for the Latin expression "Anima Sana In Corpore Sano" ("You should pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body"), a quote from the Roman satirist Juvenal. The proverb is suggested to Mr.