{"id":1651,"date":"2008-09-05T03:35:05","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T10:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2008-09-05T03:35:14","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T10:35:14","slug":"quiksilver-rings-up-a-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1651","title":{"rendered":"Quiksilver Rings Up A Profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/quik-logo-tm.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/quik-logo-tm.jpg','popup','width=200,height=104,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\/09\/quik-logo-tm-tm.jpg\" height=\"104\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Quik-Logo-Tm\" \/><\/a>While we were busy sitting through ASR seminars yesterday <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quiksilver.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quiksilver<\/a><\/strong> held their quarterly conference call. Luckily <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/rbssConsumerGoodsAndRetailNews\/idUSN0441470820080904\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a><\/strong> was there get all the details: &#8220;the company posted a quarterly profit that beat estimates, and stood by its fiscal-year earnings view, sending shares up 13 percent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Quiksilver said on Thursday that profit margins were fattened by a higher percentage of sales in Europe and at company-owned retail stores. Results were also helped by a tax benefit. . . . &#8220;We had a pretty decent quarter, given how tough the retail environment is around the world,&#8221; said Chief Executive <strong>Robert McKnight <\/strong>in a conference call with analysts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Higher percentage sales at company-owned retail stores. . . wonder if that&#8217;s how <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollisterco.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hollister<\/a><\/strong> does it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/rbssConsumerGoodsAndRetailNews\/idUSN0441470820080904\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we were busy sitting through ASR seminars yesterday Quiksilver held their quarterly conference call. Luckily Reuters was there get all the details: &#8220;the company posted a quarterly profit that beat estimates, and stood by its fiscal-year earnings view, sending shares up 13 percent.&#8221; Quiksilver said on Thursday that profit margins were fattened by a [&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\/1651"}],"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=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}