{"id":1266,"date":"2008-07-23T09:18:58","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T16:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2008-07-23T09:19:05","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T16:19:05","slug":"firewire-moves-production-to-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1266","title":{"rendered":"Firewire Moves Production To Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/firewire-logo.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/firewire-logo.jpg','popup','width=683,height=134,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/firewire-logo-tm.jpg\" height=\"39\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Firewire Logo\" \/><\/a>Claiming the &#8220;double whammy&#8221; of too many boards being produced and a soft US market, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firewiresurfboards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Firewire Surfboards<\/a><\/strong> has closed it&#8217;s Burleigh manufacturing facility and is moving all of it&#8217;s production to &#8220;its low-cost factory in Thailand.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The company, whose investors included former Billabong Surfwear CEO <strong>Matthew Perrin<\/strong> and golfer <strong>Adam Scott<\/strong>, will open a new retail showroom at Currumbin this weekend. . . But it has closed its Burleigh manufacturing facility &#8211; which employed about 50 people and churned out up to 400 surfboards a week.<\/p>\n<p>Director <strong>Nev Hyman<\/strong> said the US surfboard market, which accounted for 70 per cent of the group&#8217;s sales, was suffering &#8220;its worst slump ever&#8221; as a result of the international credit crunch and soaring living costs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tell us about it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/business\/story\/0,27753,24061768-462,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">News.com.au<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claiming the &#8220;double whammy&#8221; of too many boards being produced and a soft US market, Firewire Surfboards has closed it&#8217;s Burleigh manufacturing facility and is moving all of it&#8217;s production to &#8220;its low-cost factory in Thailand. The company, whose investors included former Billabong Surfwear CEO Matthew Perrin and golfer Adam Scott, will open a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}