{"id":183,"date":"2008-01-18T08:34:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T16:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2008-01-18T08:34:23","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T16:34:23","slug":"volcom-lowers-2008-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Volcom Lowers 2008 Outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Volcom<\/strong> is blaming a &#8220;weak retail environment&#8221; for causing it to lower it&#8217;s 2008 financial outlook.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The apparel company now says 10 percent earnings growth and 18 percent revenue growth &#8220;are achievable&#8221; in 2008. It previously forecast 20 percent growth for profit and sales. . . . Volcom now expects to report fourth-quarter earnings of 29 cents or 30 cents per-share on revenue of $67 million to $68 million. Volcom earlier estimated profit of 30 cents to 32 cents per share and sales of $70 million to $73 million.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/news\/newsfeeds\/articles\/apwire\/a36101f180f54b50d71c51a1bd3f4459.htm\" target=\"_blank\">CNNMoney.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volcom is blaming a &#8220;weak retail environment&#8221; for causing it to lower it&#8217;s 2008 financial outlook. The apparel company now says 10 percent earnings growth and 18 percent revenue growth &#8220;are achievable&#8221; in 2008. It previously forecast 20 percent growth for profit and sales. . . . Volcom now expects to report fourth-quarter earnings of [&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\/183"}],"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=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}