{"id":478,"date":"2008-02-27T16:25:37","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T00:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=478"},"modified":"2008-02-27T16:30:25","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T00:30:25","slug":"dekline-profiled-in-san-diego-citybeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"Dekline Profiled In San Diego Citybeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/aandc-prime.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/aandc-prime.jpg','popup','width=220,height=220,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\/2008\/02\/aandc-prime-tm.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Aandc-Prime\" \/><\/a>Local coverage is always so enthusiastic. Here is an example from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdcitybeat.com\/cms\/story\/detail\/a_better_way\/6674\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Deigo City Beat&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> profile on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dekline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dekline<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Benzien and I sit in the showroom of Dekline Footwear&#8217;s Logan Heights headquarters, where he&#8217;s the lead designer. Benzien co-founded the company in 2002 with Kevin Furtado, just as skate shoes began the transition from skateboarder-specialized regalia to hipster and hip-hop fashion. Last year, sales of skate shoes grew 34 percent, faster than any other segment of the footwear market, according to retail market researcher NPD Group.<\/p>\n<p>In just a few years of existence, Dekline has established itself as an industry leader in look and feel. At last month&#8217;s Action Sports Retailers convention in San Diego, skate and shoe sellers repeatedly referred me to Dekline as the It company in the field.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Industry leader in look and feel? Alright, as long as you&#8217;re not saying sales, we guess we can agree.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdcitybeat.com\/cms\/story\/detail\/a_better_way\/6674\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego City Beat<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local coverage is always so enthusiastic. Here is an example from San Deigo City Beat&#8217;s profile on Dekline: Benzien and I sit in the showroom of Dekline Footwear&#8217;s Logan Heights headquarters, where he&#8217;s the lead designer. Benzien co-founded the company in 2002 with Kevin Furtado, just as skate shoes began the transition from skateboarder-specialized regalia [&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":[10,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478"}],"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=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}