{"id":18865,"date":"2010-10-19T05:13:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T12:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18865"},"modified":"2010-10-19T07:19:08","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T14:19:08","slug":"volcom-gains-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=18865","title":{"rendered":"Volcom Gains Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/volcom-stone-logojpg.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/volcom-stone-logojpg.jpeg','popup','width=250,height=365,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\/volcom-stone-logojpg-tm1.jpg\" height=\"146\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Volcom-Stone-Logojpg\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Volcom<\/a><\/strong> announced today that they&#8217;ve purchased the distributor responsible for their brand in Spain beginning in July 2011.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This move enables us to service our accounts directly and further build the Volcom brand in this important and influential territory,&#8221; said <strong>Richard Woolcott<\/strong>, Volcom&#8217;s chairman and chief executive officer. &#8220;Historically we have been successful in growing market share in territories where we have assumed direct control, and this initiative directly supports our expansion plans in Europe.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This means Volcom is running it&#8217;s own show in France, the UK, Switzerland, and Spain. It&#8217;s always better to do things yourself. Bumping things over is going to cost the company approximately $150,000 this quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volcom announced today that they&#8217;ve purchased the distributor responsible for their brand in Spain beginning in July 2011. &#8220;This move enables us to service our accounts directly and further build the Volcom brand in this important and influential territory,&#8221; said Richard Woolcott, Volcom&#8217;s chairman and chief executive officer. &#8220;Historically we have been successful in growing [&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\/18865"}],"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=18865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18866,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18865\/revisions\/18866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}