NEW YORK (Standard&Poor's) Jan. 24, 2014--Standard&Poor's Rating Services said today that it corrected its short-term rating and commercial paper rating on Nike Inc. by raising them to 'A-1+' from 'A-1'. We inadvertently did not raise the ratings following publication of "General Criteria: Methodology For Linking Short-Term And Long-Term Ratings For Corporate, Insurance, And Sovereign Issuers," on May 7, 2013. For the complete corporate credit rating rationale, see our research update on NIKE, published Nov. 6, 2013, on RatingsDirect. RELATED CRITERIA AND RESEARCH Corporate Methodology, Nov. 19, 2013 Corporate Methodology: Ratios And Adjustments, Nov. 19, 2013 Methodology And Assumptions: Liquidity Descriptors For Global Corporate Issuers, Jan. 2, 2014 Management And Governance Credit Factors For Corporate Entities And
