{"id":16703,"date":"2010-07-09T05:58:43","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T12:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=16703"},"modified":"2010-07-12T18:50:44","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T01:50:44","slug":"the-persistence-of-rvca-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=16703","title":{"rendered":"The Persistence Of RVCA Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/rvca-logo.gif\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/rvca-logo.gif','popup','width=190,height=80,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\/2010\/07\/rvca-logo-tm.jpg\" height=\"84\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Rvca-Logo\" \/><\/a>In a classic example of just how rumors get laundered <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apparelnews.net\" target=\"_blank\">Apparel News<\/a><\/em><\/strong> retail editor <strong>Andrew Asch<\/strong> spins out a three page story titled <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apparelnews.net\/news\/retailing\/070910-Could-RVCA-Be-Next-in-Billabongs-Buying-Spree\" target=\"_blank\">Could RVCA Be Next in Billabong&#8217;s Buying Spree<\/a><\/em><\/strong> in which he adds absolutely no new information on the topic. Here&#8217;s the crux of his story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Billabong . . . is widely rumored to be buying celebrated Costa Mesa, Calif.\u2013based fashion brand RVCA. After several surf-industry publications and websites speculated on the rumor in the past couple of weeks, both Billabong and RVCA remain mum on the possible acquisition. (Neither company responded to requests for comment.) <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That didn&#8217;t, however, stop Asch from rounding up few recycled conference call quotes from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong<\/a><\/strong> CEO <strong>Derek O&#8217;Neill<\/strong>, comments from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macquarie.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Macquarie<\/a><\/strong> analyst <strong>Greg Dring<\/strong>, and a few lines from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardretailers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">BRA&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong><strong> Melissa Clary<\/strong>, and turning out a story so good that it almost makes us believe the Billabong buyout is a done deal.<\/p>\n<p>But then what about <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nike.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nike<\/a><\/strong>? We hear they&#8217;re the deep pockets with room for RVCA. After all, the Nike Open is right around the corner and you can&#8217;t exactly expect skaters to wear <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hurley<\/a><\/strong> with their <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.converseskateboarding.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cons<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apparelnews.net\/news\/retailing\/070910-Could-RVCA-Be-Next-in-Billabongs-Buying-Spree\/page2\" target=\"_blank\">Apparel News<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a classic example of just how rumors get laundered Apparel News retail editor Andrew Asch spins out a three page story titled Could RVCA Be Next in Billabong&#8217;s Buying Spree in which he adds absolutely no new information on the topic. Here&#8217;s the crux of his story: Billabong . . . is widely rumored [&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":[10,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16703"}],"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=16703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16802,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16703\/revisions\/16802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}