They don’t have Dane Reynolds but now DC Shoes can add Mitch Coleborn to the surf team where he will join Craig Anderson, Ry Craike, Clay Marzo, Marc Lacomare, Mark Healey, Reef McIntosh and Dillion Perillo.
The 24 year-old Australian native started surfing at the age of 10 in Maroochydore on Australia’s Sunshine Coast. Coleborn burst into the international surf scene in 2007 after winning back-to-back events and taking the 2007 Australasian Junior Ratings title. You may also recognize Mitch for his notable part in the most forward thinking surf movie to date, 2009’s Modern Collective.
Fashionistas in Lake Elsinore, California (and those who bus in on super savings shopper/casino tours) will now be able to purchase quality RVCA clothing at close-out prices thanks to Billabong’s new RVCA outlet store in the Lake Elsinore Outlets, according to a story in The Press-Enterprise.
The store, which carries merchandise for men and women, opened Saturday in a space next to Skechers. . . The brand (pronounced ‘Roo-ka’) is widely available in retail stores across the country, but this is the Costa Mesa-based company’s first outlet store.
Could there even be a better outlet mall neighbor for “Roo-ka” than Skechers.
Agenda Tradeshow has partnered Krush to give brands predictive data on which SKUs in the Spring 2012 lines will be the most popular six months before the products go on sales.
“This new technology is a game changer for the whole retail industry,” says Aaron Levant, President of AGENDA LLC. “It will save brands time and money by allowing them to rapidly eliminate unpopular items and capture more sales from the most popular items. Historically, action sports and lifestyle brands have been the trend setters in the industry, so it made sense for us to be the first to introduce this technology to the brands who exhibit at AGENDA.”
For more info on Krush’s SneakPeek brand events and the product data they can provide follow the jump. [click to continue…]
It appears they postponed it due a rough patch in the market. Smart. . . They list the maximum offering price as $19 a share. They are registering 9,583,334 shares and if they sell all of those, the offering will raise a bit over $182 million. But that includes the underwriters optional over allotment of 1,250,000 shares and is before expenses.
For the rest of Harbaugh’s analysis click the link.
Vans by Thalia Surf Shop is hosting a Captian Fin Co. show on Thursday night, July 7, 2011 featuring food, drink, art, photographs, and surfboards created by Andrew Doheny and Alex Knost. The party begins at 6:30 PM.
The Oregonian writer Allen Brettman spoke to many of the P-Town outerwear brands like Grenade, Bonfire, Airblaster, Betty Rides, Holden, and Homeschool and found out that “July is perhaps among the busiest for the local snowboarding apparel and equipment industry.”
Future garments are under design, the upcoming season’s line is under production, and sales meetings abound, with independent representatives as well as a network of retailers. . . . “For sure, this is the busiest time of year for many of our departments,” Jesse Grandkoski of the Airblaster brand emailed from Taiwan.
Guess that’s where everyone has been lately. Click the link for the rest of the story . . .
On Friday, July 1, 2011 Volcom CEO Richard Woolcott announced that long-time Volcom CFO Doug Collier would be leaving the company. In an email sent to employees Woolcott said:
I want to let you know that after 18 great years with the company, Doug Collier has decided to retire from Volcom. Doug has been a friend and close ally since the early days, through years of crazy growth and through our life as a public company. I’m very stoked for him and fully support his decision to spend more time surfing and snowboarding with his wife and boys. . . While I will miss our daily interactions, he will always be part of the Volcom family. I wish him the very best, and have asked him to please save some powder for the rest of us!
Before anyone jumped in to say that PPR was moving its people into the VeeCo building, Wooly was quick to mention that Collier would be replaced by six-year Volcom finance team member Dave Unter. Wooly said:
Dave is a seasoned executive with strong experience, and we are excited he will be our financial steward as we enter this new phase for the company. Dave joined Volcom back in 2005 after a short time at Hot Topic and almost a decade at Deloitte and Touche LLP providing advisory, audit and assurance services for companies in the action sports and retail industries.
Congrats, to Doug and Dave. Seems like the perfect time for some to walk away and others to step up.
Our least favorite bargain action fashion retailer, Tilly’s, has reportedly filed to go public, according to a story in the Orange County Business Journal.
It’s a major move under new Chief Executive Daniel Griesemer, who joined the company in February from women’s clothing and accessories retailer and catalog company Coldwater Creek in Idaho. . . Griesemer replaced longtime head and company founder Hezy Shaked. . . The retailer saw sales of $332.6 million last year, which was up 17.6% from a year earlier, according to the filing. . . .In the last five years, Tilly’s entered 25 new markets and doubled its total number of stores.
Didn’t take long for Quiksilver to roll out the new DC Chris Cole pro model slippers. These are called the “S” and they are reportedly available in fine footwear stores anywhere. If they made us skate like that we might even consider buying a pair.
Aside from all the action fashion going down at Agenda NYC in the Chelsea Art Museum on January 18-19, 2011 there will also be some art going up live, including work from Montana Cans and Sever MSK.
