{"id":1547,"date":"2008-09-02T17:36:20","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T00:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2008-09-03T11:13:24","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T18:13:24","slug":"volcom-brings-japan-in-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1547","title":{"rendered":"Volcom Brings Japan In-house"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those in foreign countries, it&#8217;s a nice way to do business: set up the distribution of your favorite brand, get it rolling, and then sell it back to the brand. For the brand it&#8217;s a relatively cheap way to expand into foreign markets (with much less risk). That&#8217;s what <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Volcom<\/a><\/strong> just did with their Japanese distributor.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This acquisition is a testament to the strength of our brand in Japan after working with our distributor for more than 15 years,&#8221; says <strong>Richard Woolcott<\/strong>, chairman and CEO of Volcom. &#8220;We are excited to culminate a longstanding relationship with an opportunity to work more closely with our accounts in this important territory, while retaining our Japan-based distribution team.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When it works out nicely, it&#8217;s amazing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocmetro.com\/t-volcom_acquires_japanese_distributor_9_2_08.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">OC Metro<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those in foreign countries, it&#8217;s a nice way to do business: set up the distribution of your favorite brand, get it rolling, and then sell it back to the brand. For the brand it&#8217;s a relatively cheap way to expand into foreign markets (with much less risk). That&#8217;s what Volcom just did with their [&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":[10,3,4,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547"}],"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=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}