{"id":20334,"date":"2010-12-14T09:47:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T17:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=20334"},"modified":"2010-12-14T09:57:29","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T17:57:29","slug":"rip-curl-retails-up-with-waves-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=20334","title":{"rendered":"Rip Curl Retails Up With Waves Purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ripcurl-logo.png\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ripcurl-logo.png','popup','width=738,height=350,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\/12\/ripcurl-logo-tm.jpg\" height=\"47\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ripcurl-Logo\" \/><\/a>Not be left out of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong<\/a><\/strong> retail gobbling game <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripcurl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rip Curl<\/a><\/strong> has announced that it has just picked up 15 Perth-based retail stores according to a post on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ragtrader.com.au\/news\/rip-curl-snares-perth-stores\" target=\"_blank\">Ragtrader.com.au<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Torquay-headquartered surf company revealed it has bought nine &#8216;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wavessurfwear.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wave<\/a><\/strong>&#8216; surf stores, two &#8216;<strong>City Surf&#8217;<\/strong> stores and four &#8216;Cite&#8217; streetwear stores. . . Rip Curl Asia Pacific CEO <strong>Steven Kay<\/strong> said he hopes to build on Wave&#8217;s 25-year history, overseen thus far by Wave founders <strong>Chris<\/strong> and <strong>Vicki Prastidis<\/strong>. . . \u201cPerth is the gateway to one of the great surfing and youth markets in Australia and Rip Curl want to put more effort into the region,\u201d Kay said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Independent action sports retailers are getting few and far between.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ragtrader.com.au\/news\/rip-curl-snares-perth-stores\" target=\"_blank\">Ragtrader<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not be left out of the Billabong retail gobbling game Rip Curl has announced that it has just picked up 15 Perth-based retail stores according to a post on Ragtrader.com.au. The Torquay-headquartered surf company revealed it has bought nine &#8216;Wave&#8216; surf stores, two &#8216;City Surf&#8217; stores and four &#8216;Cite&#8217; streetwear stores. . . Rip Curl [&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":[16,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20334"}],"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=20334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20336,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20334\/revisions\/20336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}