Blog Profile / Boardistan - Wall Street
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| Filed Under: | Sports / Extreme Sports | |
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| Posts / Week: | 3.4 | |
| Archived Since: | August 27, 2009 | |
Blog Post Archive
Patagonia’s Bowery Surf Shop Moving Forward
The one thing New York City needs right now is another surf shop, right? And Patagonia is going to give it to them right straight in the Bowery. Work has reportedly begun at 313 Bowery according to a story on Bowery Boogie. A batch of permits was recently filed with the DOB for “structural work [...]
Rip Curl Not For Sale Right Now
With all that’s been going on with Billabong and Quiksilver lately, it probably isn’t the best time for Rip Curl to find a $400 million buyer and the owners have reportedly abandoned the sale, or at least that’s what co-founder Brian “Sing Ding” Singer is telling The Australian. “I doubt (the sale) is going to [...]
Snow Park’s Reality Show Moves Mountains
Would someone really want a reality TV show about snowboarding park builders? Apparently, Chevrolet and Good Clean Fun think the amazing work that Snow Park Technologies does is worth it because they’re launching Mountain Movers sometime this spring on the National Geographic. Reality Series stars Winter X Games course designer Chris “Gunny” Gunnarson and [...]
Fuel TV Has Run Its Course
Fuel TV, the cable channel experiment that hoped to prove that action sports television programing was a viable mainstream entertainment business, received the final nail in it’s coffin today (March 5, 2013) as Fox Sports Media Group not-so-humbly announced the August 17, 2013 launch of what they’re calling “the biggest sports cable network launch in [...]
Freewaters Signs Up Groundswell PR
Casual and conscious footwear makers’ Freewaters (makers of these rad Freewaters + Therm-a-rest flips) has just signed up Charleston, South Carolina’s Groundswell PR to handle all their media relations and brand communications. “Finding business partners that genuinely share our values is always our priority and we are thrilled to welcome Groundswell PR to our extended [...]
Quiksilver Hires Former Nike, Land’s End Execs
Quiksilver today announced today (March 4, 2013) that they’ve hired former Nike Global Brand Director Tom Hartge as Global Head of Footwear and former Lands’ End SVP, Global Sourcing Kasey Mazzone as Global Head of Supply Chain. Here’s what President and CEO Andy Mooney has to say about the changes. “We are centralizing key functions [...]
Wanna Buy A Ski Resort? Silver Is For Sale
Northern Idaho’s Silver Mountain Resort in the mining town of Kellogg is for sale in an online auction on AmeriBid and everything must go, according to a story in the Spokesman Review. The Silver Mountain Resort auction includes an indoor waterpark, a property management contract for more than 270 condo units, another 14 commercial units, [...]
O’Neill’s Toby Bost Goes Undercover Boss
La Jolla Group CEO Toby Bost is making his network television reality show debut tonight (February 22, 2013) when the fashion executive goes undercover with his own employees on the CBS show Undercover Boss. On the show Bost will apparently be playing the part of O’Neill CEO (as opposed to Metal Mulisha CEO, or Rusty [...]
Billabong Reports Loss of AUS $536.6 Million
We just breezed over Billabong’s half year financial results for the six months ended December 31, 2012 and found a few things interesting and not all that surprising items. Here they are: • Previously announced due diligence by Paul Naude and VF Corp is expected to conclude next month • Sales fell in the Americas [...]
Billabong: Things May Be Getting Worse
Craig Woolford, a Citygroup analyst is warning investors that Billabong “could downgrade full-year earnings guidance when it delivers its first half result this Friday,” according to a story in the Wall Street Journal. “We see risk the full-year guidance of 85 million Australian dollars (US$87 million) to A$92 million in Ebitda may be revised lower,” [...]
Harbaugh Digs Through PPR For Volcom
PPR released their 2012 full-year results and it gave Jeff Harbaugh a chance to dig in to get a better idea of what has been going on at Volcom since they were purchased by the French fashion titan a year and a half ago. From what Harbaugh could figure, it looks like things are going [...]
Agenda Jumps Las Vegas With Modern Assembly
The Agenda Show will be dropping in on Las Vegas in August 2013 as part of a strategic alliance called Modern Assembly. Agenda will join AccessoriesTheShow, Capsule, Liberty, MRket, and Stitch at the Venetian and Sands Expo. In a move that dispels the myths and competitive nature between the fashion tradeshows of yesteryear, the shows [...]
VF Corp Crushing It Thanks To Vans
VF Corp couldn’t be happier with their numbers from quarter four and from 2012. Their revenues were up 15 percent to $10.9 billion (yes, billion) their gross margin is up 75 basis points, and their earnings per share were up 17 percent. And at least some of this is thanks to Vans. The Vans® brand [...]
Agenda Summer 2013 Dates Announced
Open your calendar and drop these new summer 2013 Agenda Show dates in there: Agenda NYC is July 10-11, 2013, and Agenda Long Beach is July 25-26, 2013. Now you know. For more info click the link. [Link: Agenda Show]
Bryant To Help Billabong Go Global
Just when we thought it was almost too quiet at Billabong, comes news that former Billabong USA CFO Peter Bryant will “will steer an overhaul of the company’s reporting and operational structures,” with a title of group executive for commercial operations, according to a story in The Australian. Chief executive Launa Inman has set out [...]
Alden Back As Interim CEO At Skullcandy
We’ve pretty much stopped covering Skullcandy headphone company since founder Rick Alden left in 2011, but now we get the news that Alden is back in the CEO position. Current CEO Jeremy Andrus has announced that he was joining a private investment firm, according to a story on Twice, and Alden is now back in [...]
Vans Nabs US Open Of Surfing Sponsorship
Those who thought the US Open of Surfing would simply drift on into oblivion following Nike Inc.’s withdrawal from Huntington Beach, California are sorely mistaken. Vans announced today (February 7, 2013) that it has signed a three-year partnership with IMC to be the title sponsor of the world’s largest surfing event. “Vans and IMG have [...]
Brent Sandor Named 686 Director of Marketing
Look who’s moving to LA? Westlife Distribution, the parent company 686, has named Brent Sandor as their new Director of Marketing. Sandor was most recently brand director at Spy. “At Westlife, the family is tight. We have a history of keeping heads for a while and I’m stoked that we’ve found someone talented in both [...]
Mizu: Water Bottle To The Brands
Mizu, the aluminum water bottle company founded by Jussi Oksanen and friends, has signed exclusive licensing agreements with Electric, Nixon, Poler, and Volcom. “It’s exciting to see these marquee names coming together to make a difference on this level,” explains Mizu CEO Tim Pogue. “For the first time, retailers can easily get involved in this [...]
Rebagliati High On Plans To Open Pot Shops
After a short run at local Canada politics and some divorce troubles the world’s first snowboard Olympic gold medalist Ross Rebagliati has now announced plans to open a “franchise of medical marijuana shops” called Ross’s Gold, according to a story in the Calgary Herald.... Rebagliati said the federal government’s decision to get [...]