{"id":2292,"date":"2008-10-31T09:48:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T16:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2292"},"modified":"2008-10-31T09:48:31","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T16:48:31","slug":"oneills-uk-distributor-pulling-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2292","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s UK Distributor Pulling Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citing weak sales of surf and snowboard gear in the UK, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneill.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> exclusive UK distributor <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blacksleisure.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blacks Leisure<\/a><\/strong> has reportedly begun talks to pull out of the deal with the surf company. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Northampton, England-based company plans to end the O&#8217;Neill contract in January, Chief Executive Officer <strong>Neil Gillis<\/strong> said today in a telephone interview.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wonder if that drop in sales had anything to do with the issues surrounding <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=831\" target=\"_blank\">the company&#8217;s firing of Darren Spurling<\/a><\/strong> back in May?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601085&amp;sid=anRoEf03zVpU&amp;refer=europe\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citing weak sales of surf and snowboard gear in the UK, O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s exclusive UK distributor Blacks Leisure has reportedly begun talks to pull out of the deal with the surf company. The Northampton, England-based company plans to end the O&#8217;Neill contract in January, Chief Executive Officer Neil Gillis said today in a telephone interview. Wonder [&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":[10,4,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292"}],"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=2292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}