{"id":1469,"date":"2008-08-25T10:06:35","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T17:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2008-08-25T10:07:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T17:07:26","slug":"billabong-gets-back-in-the-ussr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1469","title":{"rendered":"Billabong Gets Back In The USSR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Australian newspaper <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/business.theage.com.au\/business\/surf-shop-in-moscow-for-billabong-20080824-41d5.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Age<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong<\/a><\/strong> plans to open up shop in the heart of Russia.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Billabong plans to set up a flagship store in one of Moscow&#8217;s trendy shopping districts as a way to assert its dominance in the international youth-wear market. . . . Billabong is sold in over 100 countries including the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Estonia, which makes up about 1% of global sales.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which reminds us: &#8220;Every Russian, looking at Moscow, feels that she is a mother; every foreigner, looking at her and not knowing her maternal significance, must feel the feminine character of this city, and Napoleon felt it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/business.theage.com.au\/business\/surf-shop-in-moscow-for-billabong-20080824-41d5.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Age<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Australian newspaper The Age, Billabong plans to open up shop in the heart of Russia. Billabong plans to set up a flagship store in one of Moscow&#8217;s trendy shopping districts as a way to assert its dominance in the international youth-wear market. . . . Billabong is sold in over 100 countries [&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\/1469"}],"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=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}