{"id":52667,"date":"2018-04-12T09:59:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T16:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=52667"},"modified":"2018-04-12T10:14:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T17:14:35","slug":"kering-looking-to-dump-volcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=52667","title":{"rendered":"Kering Starts Volcom &#8220;Disposal Process&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-37677\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/volcom-stone-logojpg-tm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"146\">We talked about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=52007\"><strong>this a while ago<\/strong><\/a> (November 1, 2017 to be exact), but it appears that the day of <strong>Kering&#8217;s<\/strong> off-loading of <strong>Volcom<\/strong> has officially arrived, according to a story on <a href=\"https:\/\/sgbonline.com\/volcom-hits-the-selling-block\/\"><strong>SGB Media<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn accordance with Kering\u2019s strategy to fully dedicate itself to the development of its luxury houses, Volcom no longer constitutes a core asset and Kering has initiated a disposal process,\u201d the group said in a statement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Disposal process? Wow. Kering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=22966\"><strong>bought Volcom in 2011 for $608 million<\/strong><\/a> will Wooly buy it back for $200 million? Could this happen, (please)? We&#8217;ll all just have to wait and see.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/sgbonline.com\/volcom-hits-the-selling-block\/\">SGB Media<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We talked about this a while ago (November 1, 2017 to be exact), but it appears that the day of Kering&#8217;s off-loading of Volcom has officially arrived, according to a story on SGB Media. \u201cIn accordance with Kering\u2019s strategy to fully dedicate itself to the development of its luxury houses, Volcom no longer constitutes a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,4,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52667"}],"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=52667"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52674,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52667\/revisions\/52674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}