{"id":26137,"date":"2011-10-25T09:26:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T16:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26137"},"modified":"2011-10-25T09:26:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T16:26:58","slug":"billabong-shares-up-on-retail-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=26137","title":{"rendered":"Billabong Shares Up On Retail Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/billabong_logo-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/billabong_logo-1.jpg','popup','width=210,height=35,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\/10\/billabong_logo-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"33\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Billabong Logo-1\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> plans to follow a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollisterco.com\/hol\/homepage.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hollister<\/a><\/strong> like retail strategy is apparently paying off in the eyes of investors, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/business\/billabong-shares-surge-as-investors-warm-to-strategy-20111025-1mi00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SURFING brand Billabong International says its strategy of buying retail outlets will increase the struggling company&#8217;s margins. . . Billabong&#8217;s comments that it is on track for strong earnings growth this financial year helped its shares rise nearly 9 per cent yesterday. The stock closed 31\u00a2 up at $3.91, partly offsetting the slump in value this year caused by a fall in profit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Steve Jobs probably would not have disagreed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/business\/billabong-shares-surge-as-investors-warm-to-strategy-20111025-1mi00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billabong&#8217;s plans to follow a Hollister like retail strategy is apparently paying off in the eyes of investors, according to a story in the Sydney Morning Herald. SURFING brand Billabong International says its strategy of buying retail outlets will increase the struggling company&#8217;s margins. . . Billabong&#8217;s comments that it is on track for strong [&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\/26137"}],"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=26137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26138,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26137\/revisions\/26138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}