Click here for our gallery of photos from the Agenda Show, Anaheim, California.
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For the past eight years, Agenda Show founders Aaron Levant and Seth Haber have pushed ahead with a cool, small trade show that promoted authentic street brands.
In the face of competition from much larger organizations like Magic, ASR, and Surf Expo they’d been able to carve out a small, successful corner of the fashion trade show business. The show was growing even though each year it was becoming more and more of a head-to-head race with ASR.
Then, at the beginning of November 2010, Nielsen Expositions announced it was shutting down the ASR Show entirely. Suddenly, Agenda’s most direct competition was gone. At that time we tried to speak with Levant about how the announcement would change the trade show game, but he wasn’t interested in discussing it then.
Yesterday (January 6, 2011), we caught Levant in the lobby of the packed Agenda Show in Anaheim’s Marriott Convention Center. This year’s show is made up of several sections: Agenda, The Berrics Agenda skateboard show, and the all-new Agenda Snow. All told, the show fills 80,000 square feet of floorspace and features 300 brands. Levant and Haber’s little show has become quite large.
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From the “public companies must grow” file comes the following breaking news from Volcom:
We are proud to announce that Volcom will be the official casual clothing sponsor of Mitch Payton’s Monster Energy/Pro Circuit/Kawasaki race team for 2011. Pro-Circuit is highly regarded as one of the best teams in motocross and they are known for their continued success and commitment to excellence. We are stoked to be working with Pro-Circuit and be a part of this amazing team!
Some Stone rocking mini-truck drivers are going to be so amped.
[Editors’ Note: It appears Veeco is picking the right guys as Ryan Villapoto won SX #1 in Anaheim.]
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VF Corp, the parent company of Vans, Reef, and The North Face, today announced the promotion of Steve Rendle to the position of Vice President, VF and Group President, Outdoor & Action Sports America’s.
Since 2009, Rendle has served as President of VF Outdoor Americas. He will now be responsible for leading VF’s Outdoor and Action Sports businesses in North and South America, consisting of The North Face(R), Vans(R), JanSport(R), Eagle Creek(R), Reef(R) and lucy(R)brands. Kevin Bailey, President of Vans and Jeff Moore, President of Reef will now report to Rendle. He will continue to be based in San Leandro, California.
What they didn’t apparently include in their announcement is that, according to Shop-Eat-Surf, Reef’s VP of Marketing Kevin Flanagan is no longer with the company and his position has been eliminated.
Apparently, Reef is doing so well that they no longer need anyone in the “senior marketing position.” Follow the jump for more.
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Those who thought the death of the ASR Show signaled the death of action sports trade shows in general were proven grossly wrong during day one of the Agenda Show in Anaheim, California January 6, 2011. All three halls were packed to the point of making it difficult to cruise the aisles. And it wasn’t people just hanging out. Lines were being shown and in many cases orders were being written.
While some brands we spoke to seemed relieved that they didn’t have to be at ASR this year, others mentioned missing the old days when Agenda was just a small show for the cool kids. Agenda has definitely kicked it up a level this year and nearly everyone seems happy about it. Even those who seem nostalgic for the past.
More later. We still have aisles to walk. Until then check out this photo gallery from day one.
[Editors’ note: Special thanks to the Mark Waters Wi-Fi network. He didn’t have to share, but he did.]
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So this is what everyone was tweeting about last night. Long-time Rip Curl surfer and four time Womens ASP World Champion Stephanie Gilmore has reportedly signed a five-year contract with Quiksilver (not Roxy, to be clear), according to a post on the Mountain and Wave.
Under terms of the agreement Stephanie will ride for the Quiksilver team and has become a Quiksilver brand ambassador, joining a diverse and talented group which includes 13 other female artists, musicians, photographers, philanthropists and fashion designers representing Quiksilver’s lines for women. “I have had exceptional support throughout my career and I am excited to have this bright opportunity with the respected team at Quiksilver,” says Gilmore. “I am looking forward to pushing myself to new levels and feel this is a move which will help me stay inspired while competing at the highest level as a professional surfer on the ASP Women’s World Tour. It’s thrilling to be a part of an innovative and globally respected brand like Quiksilver. Its rich history and creative direction are well aligned with my personal ambitions.”
It really is the perfect match, especially if reports of Stephie being the $5 million woman are true.
[Link: Mountain & Wave and Daily Telegraph]
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Vrrrroooom. Vrrrrrrmooon. Transworld Media today announced that former Transworld Motocross and BMX Publisher Marc Fiore has been promoted to vice president of Sales and Marketing at the company and will report to Group Publisher Liam Ferguson.
“I am very excited to have Marc take the reigns as head of Sales and Marketing,” Ferguson said. “He has been a key part to our success, and we are thrilled to promote him to this position. Working closely with him over the years I’ve seen him evolve as a leader with a passion for action sports.”
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So we were cruising the web today and saw this X Life premiere party photo of former McClellan Nichols Sports Syndicate agent Todd Hahn with X Life producer (and Jessica Simpson dad) Joe Simpson in the Times of India and we’re thinking to ourselves, “Wonder what is going on here?”
Can you say Papa Joe Sports?
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Stance’s Ryan Kingman gets interviewed on TransWorld Business and he takes the opportunity to explain how they got their feet in the door.
Stance saw an opportunity to address a category that has been neglected and overlooked by most brands over the years and bring it to the surface, show it off, champion it. Whenever there’s a product being manufactured in a space with an excited and loyal consumer base there’s an opportunity to develop the category and make it shine. As it turns out there are a lot more sock enthusiasts and aficionados than we had hoped for.
Yep. Some people are just into feet. . .
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Spy Optic parent Orange 21 announced that it is getting out of the manufacturing business almost entirely—something it had formerly touted as one of its advantages.
According to an announcement today Orange 21 is selling 90% of its Italy-based manufacturing facility LEM to the eyewear companies senior management.
A. Stone Douglass, Orange 21 Inc.’s CEO, commented, “We believe this is an opportunity for us to refocus our primary efforts on our sales and distribution of our multiple brands, Spy Optic, O’Neil, Margaritaville and Melodies by MJB through our remaining wholly-owned subsidiaries, Orange 21 North America Inc. and Orange 21 Europe S.r.l.”
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