{"id":32022,"date":"2012-08-29T10:54:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T17:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=32022"},"modified":"2012-08-29T11:01:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T18:01:24","slug":"quiksilverrhone-circling-billabong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=32022","title":{"rendered":"Quiksilver\/Rhone Circling Billabong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/quik_logo10.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/quik_logo10.jpg','popup','width=180,height=40,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\/08\/quik_logo10-tm.jpg\" height=\"44\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Quik Logo10\" \/><\/a>Australia&#8217;s <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/business\/wall-street-journal\/quiksilver-may-join-race-for-billabong\/story-fnay3vxj-1226461096788\" target=\"_blank\">Business Spectator <\/a><\/em><\/strong>is raising the bar on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong<\/a><\/strong> takeover speculation by suggesting that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhonegroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rhone Group<\/a><\/strong>, the private equity firm that owns 20 percent of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quiksilver.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quiksilver<\/a><\/strong>, may or could be looking to snatch up Billabong if the price is right.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While it&#8217;s not clear whether Quiksilver or Rhone, a New York-based private equity firm, is eyeing the situation, it&#8217;s fair to say it&#8217;s likely to be Rhone who has the final say on any move given Quiksilver&#8217;s history of debt issues and market value of $US513 million &#8212; below Billabong&#8217;s at about $650m.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Guess using the words &#8220;could&#8221; and &#8220;might be&#8221; allow the press to say pretty much anything they want. We can&#8217;t really imagine a scenario where Quiksilver&#8217;s problems could be solved by adding Billabong&#8217;s to their list. We&#8217;d like to think Quik learned their lesson with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rossignol.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rossignol<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/business\/wall-street-journal\/quiksilver-may-join-race-for-billabong\/story-fnay3vxj-1226461096788\" target=\"_blank\">Business Spectator<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia&#8217;s Business Spectator is raising the bar on Billabong takeover speculation by suggesting that Rhone Group, the private equity firm that owns 20 percent of Quiksilver, may or could be looking to snatch up Billabong if the price is right. While it&#8217;s not clear whether Quiksilver or Rhone, a New York-based private equity firm, is [&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\/32022"}],"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=32022"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32027,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32022\/revisions\/32027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}