{"id":28347,"date":"2012-02-08T07:40:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T15:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=28347"},"modified":"2012-02-08T07:41:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T15:41:09","slug":"billabongs-derek-oneill-hanging-in-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=28347","title":{"rendered":"Billabong&#8217;s Derek O&#8217;Neill Hanging In There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/art-353-o-neill-200x0.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/art-353-o-neill-200x0.jpg','popup','width=200,height=248,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\/2012\/02\/art-353-o-neill-200x0-tm.jpg\" height=\"124\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Art-353-O-Neill-200X0\" \/><\/a>The <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/business\/billabong-tries-to-surf-chiefdump-wave-20120208-1rex7.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is quoting &#8220;sources close&#8221; to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong<\/a><\/strong> as saying that CEO <strong>Derek O&#8217;Neill<\/strong> will be &#8220;removed as CEO&#8221; soon thanks to &#8220;declining sales and rising debt,&#8221; but officially the company is denying that.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Billabong last night moved to quash rumors that embattled chief executive Derek O&#8217;Neill would soon be dumped by the board, amid growing concern among major investors about the surf wear company&#8217;s performance. . . Billabong chairman <strong>Ted Kunkel<\/strong> said last night: &#8221;I categorically deny the suggestion.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re going out on a limb to say that we think the board will do whatever they think is best for the stock.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/business\/billabong-tries-to-surf-chiefdump-wave-20120208-1rex7.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sydney Morning Herald is quoting &#8220;sources close&#8221; to Billabong as saying that CEO Derek O&#8217;Neill will be &#8220;removed as CEO&#8221; soon thanks to &#8220;declining sales and rising debt,&#8221; but officially the company is denying that. Billabong last night moved to quash rumors that embattled chief executive Derek O&#8217;Neill would soon be dumped by the [&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":[10,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28347"}],"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=28347"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28349,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28347\/revisions\/28349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}