{"id":45914,"date":"2014-04-16T15:15:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T22:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=45914"},"modified":"2014-04-16T15:16:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T22:16:46","slug":"mervin-manufacturing-slims-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=45914","title":{"rendered":"Mervin Manufacturing Slims Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/44604sequimLibTech1MN4-16-14.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/44604sequimLibTech1MN4-16-14.jpg','popup','width=600,height=400,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\/2014\/04\/44604sequimLibTech1MN4-16-14-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"44604Sequimlibtech1Mn4-16-14\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mervin.com\/\">Mervin Manufacturing<\/a><\/strong>, the snowboard company formerly owned by <strong>Quiksilver<\/strong> and sold to <strong>Altamont Capital Partners<\/strong> (owners of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dakine.com\/\">Dakine<\/a><\/strong>) last fall, has cut a full 20 percent of its staff according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sequimgazette.com\/news\/255514101.html\">Sequim Gazette<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. The employees were notified on March 30, 2014.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Pete Saari<\/strong>, co-founder of the Carlsborg factory-based company, confirmed that they restructured and cut 20 percent of their staff in late March after shifting from a public to a private business model in November 2013. . . \u201cAs part of a larger restructuring initiated by our return to a privately held business model we have renewed our commitment to a healthy build-to-order-manufacturing strategy,\u201d Saari said. \u201cAn unfortunate result of this was a one-time adjustment to our staffing in our Carlsborg manufacturing facility.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Most of the employees who were cut were described as &#8220;weekend employees of the snowboard division.&#8221; Just one more page in the seemingly unending story of Pete Saari and <strong>Mike Olson&#8217;s<\/strong> constantly evolving snowboard company. Yet still, those two remain. Thankfully.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sequimgazette.com\/news\/255514101.html\">Sequim Gazette<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mervin Manufacturing, the snowboard company formerly owned by Quiksilver and sold to Altamont Capital Partners (owners of Dakine) last fall, has cut a full 20 percent of its staff according to a story in the Sequim Gazette. The employees were notified on March 30, 2014. Pete Saari, co-founder of the Carlsborg factory-based company, confirmed that [&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":[4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45914"}],"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=45914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45917,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45914\/revisions\/45917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}