{"id":23006,"date":"2011-05-04T06:57:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T13:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=23006"},"modified":"2011-05-04T13:36:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T20:36:36","slug":"skullcandy-buys-astro-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=23006","title":{"rendered":"Skullcandy Buys Astro Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/skullcandy.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/skullcandy.jpeg','popup','width=362,height=139,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\/2011\/05\/skullcandy-tm.jpg\" height=\"76\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Skullcandy\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skullcandy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skullcandy<\/a><\/strong> is expanding its reach in the headphone space by picking up the San Francisco-based video gaming electronics company <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.astrogaming.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Astro Gaming<\/a><\/strong> for $10.8 million, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20110429-709589.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Some will remember  that in addition to the companies listed below, one of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5082\" target=\"_blank\">Astro&#8217;s other investors is Nixon co-founder Chad DiNenna<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Astro Gaming was backed by investors including Triangle Peak Partners LP and Fayez Sarofim &#38; Co. . . Skullcandy also disclosed in the new filing that it generated a net loss of $9.7 million last year, compared with a $13.5 million profit the year prior. Though its revenue rose 35.7% to $160.6 million thanks to increased sales to large national retailers, a one-time charge for management incentive bonuses took out a $17.5 million chunk of its profit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good thing Skullcandy is going public. Looks like that money is going to come in pretty handy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20110429-709589.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skullcandy is expanding its reach in the headphone space by picking up the San Francisco-based video gaming electronics company Astro Gaming for $10.8 million, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal. Some will remember that in addition to the companies listed below, one of Astro&#8217;s other investors is Nixon co-founder Chad DiNenna. Astro [&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":[17,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23006"}],"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=23006"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23035,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23006\/revisions\/23035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}