{"id":18419,"date":"2010-10-01T06:32:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T13:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18419"},"modified":"2010-10-01T06:39:08","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T13:39:08","slug":"billabong-pulls-pants-up-adds-38-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18419","title":{"rendered":"Billabong Pulls Pants Up, Adds 38 Stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/billabong_logo-2.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/billabong_logo-2.jpg','popup','width=207,height=34,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\/10\/billabong_logo-2-tm.jpg\" height=\"32\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Billabong Logo-2\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong<\/a><\/strong> today (October 1, 2010) announced that it will acquire Australia&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sds.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Surf Dive &#8216;n&#8217; Ski<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sds.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jetty Surf<\/a><\/strong> shops from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.generalpantsgroup.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">General Pants Group<\/a><\/strong><strong> <\/strong>adding 38 retail locations to its growing brick and mortar presence, according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/business\/industry-sectors\/billabong-buys-rival-surf-shops\/story-e6frg9h6-1225932688786\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The acquisition presents the opportunity to extract significant synergies in areas including warehousing, distribution, back-office support and overall retail management consolidation,&#8221; Billabong chief executive <strong>Derek O&#8217;Neill<\/strong> said. . . &#8220;Additionally, direct retail operations greatly enhance Billabong&#8217;s visibility into the buying trends of the end consumer and assist in the speedy development and delivery of on-trend product to both company-owned and independent retail accounts,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That brings Billabongs total retail fronts to 558, according to the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/business\/billabong-to-buy-38-retail-stores-20101001-15zxp.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Mourning Herald<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and will add three percent to the company&#8217;s annual revenue. Buying retailers in bulk is such a nice way to open new doors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/business\/industry-sectors\/billabong-buys-rival-surf-shops\/story-e6frg9h6-1225932688786\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a><\/strong><strong> and <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/business\/billabong-to-buy-38-retail-stores-20101001-15zxp.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billabong today (October 1, 2010) announced that it will acquire Australia&#8217;s Surf Dive &#8216;n&#8217; Ski and Jetty Surf shops from the General Pants Group adding 38 retail locations to its growing brick and mortar presence, according to a story in The Australian. &#8220;The acquisition presents the opportunity to extract significant synergies in areas including warehousing, [&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\/18419"}],"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=18419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18422,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18419\/revisions\/18422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}