{"id":12697,"date":"2009-12-22T22:09:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T06:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12697"},"modified":"2009-12-22T22:43:10","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T06:43:10","slug":"billabong-buys-into-surfstitch-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12697","title":{"rendered":"Billabong Buys Into Surfstitch.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/billabong_logo-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/billabong_logo-1.jpg','popup','width=210,height=35,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\/2009\/12\/billabong_logo-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"33\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Billabong Logo-1\" \/><\/a>After <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=11894\" target=\"_blank\">buying Swell.com<\/a><\/strong> in the US it appears that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong<\/a><\/strong> is looking to pick up <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfstitch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surfstitch.com<\/a><\/strong>, an Australian online surf retailer, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.smh.com.au\/breaking-news-business\/billabong-to-acquire-stake-in-surfstitch-20091223-lcxf.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald Billabong<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Billabong International Ltd says it has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire an interest in online board sports retailer, Surfstitch. . . The agreement will allow Billabong acquire a minority equity interest in Surfstitch, with options to acquire 100 per cent of the business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Add one more right move to Billabong&#8217;s growing list.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.smh.com.au\/breaking-news-business\/billabong-to-acquire-stake-in-surfstitch-20091223-lcxf.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After buying Swell.com in the US it appears that Billabong is looking to pick up Surfstitch.com, an Australian online surf retailer, according to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald Billabong. Billabong International Ltd says it has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire an interest in online board sports retailer, Surfstitch. . . The [&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":[10,16,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12697"}],"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=12697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12700,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12697\/revisions\/12700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}