{"id":40427,"date":"2013-03-05T14:34:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T22:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=40427"},"modified":"2013-03-05T14:34:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T22:34:45","slug":"rip-curl-not-for-sale-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=40427","title":{"rendered":"Rip Curl Not For Sale Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ripcurl-logo.png\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/ripcurl-logo.png','popup','width=738,height=350,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\/2013\/03\/ripcurl-logo-tm.jpg\" height=\"47\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ripcurl-Logo\" \/><\/a>With all that&#8217;s been going on with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quiksilver.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quiksilver<\/a><\/strong> lately, it probably isn&#8217;t the best time for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripcurl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rip Curl<\/a><\/strong> to find a $400 million buyer and the owners have reportedly abandoned the sale, or at least that&#8217;s what co-founder <strong>Brian &#8220;Sing Ding&#8221; Singer<\/strong> is telling <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/business\/companies\/rip-curl-pulls-400-million-sale-to-avoid-wipeout\/story-fn91v9q3-1226591081475\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I doubt (the sale) is going to happen,&#8221; Singer said. . . &#8220;The public market looks like a bit of a cesspit at the moment. . . But Mr Singer, who set up Rip Curl with Torquay surfing buddy <strong>Doug &#8220;Claw&#8221; Warbrick<\/strong> in 1969, said a sale was still on the longer-term agenda. . . He predicted the founders would exit &#8220;at some point in the next few years&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then again, if someone were to offer them $400 million right now, we&#8217;re guessing they take it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/business\/companies\/rip-curl-pulls-400-million-sale-to-avoid-wipeout\/story-fn91v9q3-1226591081475\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all that&#8217;s been going on with Billabong and Quiksilver lately, it probably isn&#8217;t the best time for Rip Curl to find a $400 million buyer and the owners have reportedly abandoned the sale, or at least that&#8217;s what co-founder Brian &#8220;Sing Ding&#8221; Singer is telling The Australian. &#8220;I doubt (the sale) is going to [&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\/40427"}],"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=40427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40428,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40427\/revisions\/40428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}