{"id":48927,"date":"2015-09-03T09:25:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T16:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=48927"},"modified":"2017-11-06T10:17:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T17:17:24","slug":"hey-anyone-wanna-buy-quiksilver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=48927","title":{"rendered":"Hey, Anyone Wanna Buy Quiksilver?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/quik.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/quik-tm.jpg\" alt=\"Quik\" width=\"200\" height=\"110\" align=\"right\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?s=quiksilver\">Quiksilver<\/a><\/strong> is reportedly in a last ditch effort to find someone to buy them and bail them out the hole they&#8217;ve found themselves in for the past three years, according to a story on <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-09-02\/quiksilver-said-to-seek-buyer-as-chain-struggles-to-stay-afloat\">BloombergBusiness<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Quiksilver has been holding discussions with potential strategic bidders, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the process isn\u2019t public. The goal is a management-led buyout, ideally outside of a bankruptcy, that would let the company retain its stores, two of the people said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>News of the discussions sent the stock rocketing up 7.9% to a whopping 45 cents at the close! The most interesting aspect to some of our readers may be that the lead company mentioned as <strong>Quik&#8217;s <\/strong>savior is <strong>Jamie Salter&#8217;s<\/strong> (remarkably successful) zombie brand holding company <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/authenticbrandsgroup.com\/who-we-are\/\">Authentic Brands Group<\/a><\/strong>. Yep, Quiksilver would likely fit in quite nicely with <strong>Airwalk<\/strong>, <strong>Vision Streetwear<\/strong>, and <strong>Sansabelt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-09-02\/quiksilver-said-to-seek-buyer-as-chain-struggles-to-stay-afloat\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quiksilver is reportedly in a last ditch effort to find someone to buy them and bail them out the hole they&#8217;ve found themselves in for the past three years, according to a story on BloombergBusiness. Quiksilver has been holding discussions with potential strategic bidders, said the people, who asked not to be identified because 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":[10,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48927"}],"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=48927"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52063,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48927\/revisions\/52063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}