by The Editors on October 31, 2007
As if the Rossignol part of the Quiksilver purchase wasn’t enough, the Cleveland Golf numbers were a huge drag on Quiksilver’s otherwise strong position in the sports marketplace. Now, it appears Quik can become even lighter on its feet now that it has announced the sale of Cleveland Golf to SRI Sports Ltd of Japan for a reported $132.5 million.
Quiksilver Chief Executive Robert McKnight said in a statement that Cleveland Gold was “not a strategic asset for us as we strive to maximize our core businesses and brands.”
How right he is.
[Link: Reuters]
by The Editors on October 24, 2007
When Will Farrell launched the site funnyordie.com with his writing partner Adam McKay they launched it on the popularity of one viral video: The Landlord. A skit in which Adam’s two-year-old daughter Pearl played Will’s landlord come to collect late rent. It was inspired comedy and the site got massive amounts of traffic. Obviously the brand name celebrity and the quality content added up to success in the short term.
Now Farrell and McKay have taken the same idea to action sports and launched Shredordie.com with the help of celebrity action sportsman Tony Hawk and some scraps of video left over from his production company 900 Films. What the site ends up looking like is, well, left over footage from 900 Films. We’re sure it will get better over time, but really, Tony, is this what you want to pin your Internet hopes on?
[Link: Shred Or Die]
by The Editors on October 16, 2007
Is it still a surf brand? Was it ever? What does the future hold? Nike has announced that Roger Wyett, 51, is the new CEO of Hurley. Here is his bio:
Wyett brings to Hurley more than 25 years of experience in the apparel industry, including seven years at Nike. Wyett first joined Nike in 1994 and held a number of key senior apparel roles in soccer and Nike Team Sports before leading Global Product Creation. Before joining Nike, he worked in the apparel industry in Los Angeles for 14 years, including five years at Puma USA.
We don’t know the guy, but ah. . . we’ll just leave it at that.
[Link: Boardsports Source]
by The Editors on September 11, 2007
It didn’t look that big to us, however, according to ASR official the fall 2007 Show in San Diego was big. Some said it was due to the new “moto” section, but we’re not sure. Follow the jump for the entire press release.
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by The Editors on August 28, 2007
On Wednesday, Aug. 29th at 11:30 am-12:30 pm VeeCo will be having a beach cleanup at 56th street in Newport Beach, Ca. And they’re asking everyone to please come down and join them. They’ll be giving out free t-shirts to all volunteers while supplies last.
by The Editors on August 27, 2007
When the city of Cardiff-by-th-Sea decided they wanted a statue of a surfer to adorn their city, they hired Matthew Antichevich an artist from Hemet (an inland city 45 miles from The Coast). The statue he delivered has received nothing but heckling since it was unveiled.
Critics say the figure is too spindly, his feet are positioned wrong and his hands are absolutely goofy. Rather than an embodiment of the athletic artistry that is integral to the sport’s mystique, the figure looks like a beginner about to fall off his board. “Surfing is a dance,” said Pezman. “This figure just offends the surf culture. If you did a statue of a ballet dancer, you wouldn’t have the dancer in a position that is all wrong.”
Local surfers have been dressing the statue up. It’s had a bikini top on, a pink shirt, a Mexican wrestling mask and most recently a black hood to make it look like the “the infamous Abu Ghraib photo” of a prisoner standing on a box. We’ll see how long the statue survives. . . it may not be long.
[Link: The LA Times]
by The Editors on August 24, 2007
Even though Billabong has reported a net profit of $167.25 million (up 14.6 percent) for 2006/07, and sales revenue that grew 20.1 per cent to $1.22 billion, shares in the company still fell five percent after the announcement today.
Sales in the Americas, the group’s biggest region, rose in the double digits, while EBITDA rose by 12.3 per cent to $US111.9 million ($A136.03 million). Mr O’Neill said the Americas region was backed by strong performances in Canada and South America.
Oddly, an analyst “who did not wish to be named” said the Americas were “disappointing” because of the Aussie dollar. Can you be a quoted stock analyst and not wish to be named? We’re all for anonymous comments, but still that seems shady.
[Link: The Age]
by The Editors on August 24, 2007
We missed it, but yesterday was Mickey Muñoz’s 70th birthday party at Doheny State Beach. According to the OC Register the party was the work of the Doheny Longboard Association, the San Onofre Surf Club and the Hawaiian Surf Association.
Guests [weren’t] supposed to bring gifts for Muñoz. Instead, Muñoz said a donation to the Doheny fundraiser will suffice.
We hope the day went well for everyone of the 1,000 guests.
[Link: OC Register]
by The Editors on August 22, 2007
From the celebrity blog What Would Tyler Durden Do comes these wonderful photos of Jennifer Aniston on vacation with the Arquettes in Hawaii. Here what they had to say:
These pictures, showing Jennifer Aniston on vacation yesterday in Hawaii with Courtney Cox and David Arquette, are boring, but at least no one is electrocuting dogs. I don’t get what she’s even doing. It looks like it has disaster written all over it, like the odds of falling in are the previously uninvented 140 percent. I guess I’m sort of impressed. I couldn’t do this any more than I could run down some rolling barrels on stilts.
She does look pretty comfortable with that paddle in her hands. Dry even. And we know it’s not exactly easy.
[Link: WWTDD.com]
by The Editors on August 22, 2007
Investors Business Daily is big on Zumiez the day before they announce their quarterly earnings:
But when Zumiez reports fiscal 2007 second-quarter results Wednesday, watchers expect it to shine. July’s strong same-store sales followed a 13.7% gain in June’s same-store sales and an 11.2% rise in May. Total July sales were up 42.4% from the prior year. June’s rose 48.8%, and May’s gained 51.6%
Get all the details by clicking the link.
[Link: Investors Business Daily]
