Snoop Dogg was on The View on Tuesday December 15, 2009 and while he was there he hooked the ladies up with some personalized Neff cupcake beanies and advice for Tiger Woods. How’s that for hitting moms with a little product placement right before Christmas?
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Quiksilver will be holding an analysts’ call today (December 17, 2009) at 1:30 PT to discuss their Q4 fiscals results.
The broadcast will be hosted at quiksilverinc.com and at viavid.net. To listen to the broadcast, your computer must have Windows Media Player installed. . . A press release with third quarter results is expected to be issued after the close of the market on Thursday, December 17.
Don’t say you weren’t warned.
[Link: Trading Markets]
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From the looks of a post on Shayboarder.com we can add eesa Lux Layering to the list of failed first layer companies:
In 2004 Stephen Cleary set out to create a layering company that worked on the slopes and looked good off the slopes, that company was eesa lux layering. . . it’s become time that the doors are closing at eesa and for Stephen Cleary to take a better opportunity that has come his way.
If we ignore the whole “death of a dream” thing, what this means to us is amazing deals on essa’s super smooth first layer gear and socks. Dive in. Most of it is under $10 and socks are under $5. Feeding frenzy.
[Link: essa via Yobeat via Shayboarder]
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Nina Van Zandt, 22, of Shelburne, Vermont has come up with a great new business idea: the Snowboarding Nanny, according to a story in the Burlington Free Press.
I’m looking for a few families that would want me to pick their kids up after school (age 7 and up) and take them snowboarding and then bring them home to help them with their homework and make dinner.
Van Zandt says she’s also interested in massage therapy which kind of makes her a quad threat: a snowboarding, baby-sitting, chef who gives massages.
[Link: Burlington Free Press]
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West 49, a Canadian action mall retailer we’ve constantly referred to as the “Zumiez of Canada” announced today that they have “secured a new vendor relationships with Volcom, Inc and plans to introduce branded apparel in all West 49 stores this coming Spring.”
“We are excited about our relationship with Volcom, Inc. and the potential to grow our businesses incrementally together,” said Sam Baio, Chief Executive Officer of West 49 Inc. “The addition of the premium, athlete-driven Volcom brand, is in keeping with our stores offering the ‘Best Brands on Earth’.”
The thing we find most surprising about this announcement is that Volcom hadn’t been in West 49 all this time. Then again, everyone is probably a little more motivated to do some deals now than they have been in the past. Click here for a quick breakdown of West 49’s business.
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Richard McKee, a political activist from Huntington Beach, California is suing the The Huntington Beach Marketing and Visitors Bureau and the Huntington Beach Hotel/Motel Business Improvement District because he says the money they spent in their legal battle with Noland’s on the Wharf and Shoreline Surf Shop in Santa Cruz over rights to the term “Surf City USA” may have been a wasted of taxpayer’s money, according to a story in the Orange County Register.
He alleges in the October suit that the groups are public agencies and must respond to his public records requests about a confidential January 2008 settlement concerning the Surf City USA logo. McKee said the settlement documents could prove that a lawsuit between the bureau and a Santa Cruz shop owner was not necessary because the moniker used before and after the suit is almost identical.
McKee says the public has the right to know.
[Link: The OC Register]
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The DC Shoes website seems to be missing a few belts, wallets, and other accessories that featured the DC logo. And there appears to be what one friend called “a distinct lack of snowboards” on the DC Snowboarding website. Strange, no?
According to sources, Chanel, which makes a few belts, wallets, snowboards, and other sporting equipment of their own, has reportedly sent DC a cease and desist letter requesting that DC stop producing several items featuring the Chanel-like intertwined DC letters. From the looks of the DC websites it appears that Quiksilver legal is cooperating with the request and then some.
Those who follow along may remember a similar skirmish between the brands in the 90s when DC founders Ken Block and Damon Way reportedly made a deal suggesting that since DC was “just a small skateboard company” that Chanel would allow DC to use the logo on skate shoes and some apparel. Now that DC is part of a billion dollar fashion label it appears that Chanel is looking at their products a little more carefully and it would appear that at least a few logo changes may be on the horizon at DC.
Requests for comment to both Chanel and Quiksilver have not been returned.
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Source Interlink Media, the parent company of Surfer, Surfing, Snowboarder, and Skateboarder magazine’s Action Sports Group is apparently doing to reorganization within the company.
Those reportedly no longer with the company include the former ASG President and SVP Group Publisher at Source Interlink Media Al Crolius and the director of Source Interlink Media Ken Lockwood.
Interim personnel are reportedly filling in during reorganization.
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The dying days of print have been a boon for TransWorld Media’s parent company Bonnier Corp. as they apparently see bargains everywhere.
Most recently the company has purchased Weldon Owen, an Australia publisher of “illustrated reference, lifestyle, and educational books,” according to a story on Foliomag.com.
Bonnier said adding Weldon Owen will allow the company to expand its existing magazine brands and content into book publishing projects. The company said it is considering bookazines, collectible yearbooks and other book products for sale on newsstands and online.
They’re obviously not letting anything get in the way of their quest for print domination.
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Yesterday, at the surfy-swank Shorebreak Hotel in Huntington Beach PacSun’s CEO Gary Schoenfeld reportedly filled his suppliers ears with words of “belief and passion for action sports brands” like a drowning man espousing the virtues of life rafts.
Okay, we made that last part up. We weren’t there. But luckily, Shop-eat-surf.com‘s Tiffany Montgomery had a front row seat and was kind enough to post a wonderful slideshow filled with photos of people so desperately hoping to sell more screen-printed T-shirts in America’s malls that they were willing to sit in a small room and listen to Mr. Schoenfeld for an entire hour.
[Link: Shop-Eat-Surf.com]
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