The Orange County Business Journal is reporting that Quiksilver is actively looking for funding to help negotiate what it calls one of the company’s “worst downturns in clothing sales in recent memory.”
Quiksilver has hired Morgan Stanley to help it look at ways to raise money, including from existing lenders, through a stock sale or a possible private equity investment. . .The company reworked a European credit line that was due last Friday. Quiksilver is paying its lender $19 million now and deferring $71 million until March. . . Quiksilver said it expects to have about $100 million in cash and equivalents after the close of the Rossignol sale and debt payments made before the close of the company’s fiscal year that ended Friday.
Sadly, some of the recent rumors regarding the surf giant’s financial future appear to be growing legs.
[Link: Orange County Business Journal]
