{"id":64954,"date":"2023-09-01T11:25:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T18:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=64954"},"modified":"2023-09-01T11:26:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T18:26:08","slug":"jamie-salters-29-billion-in-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=64954","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Salter Closes on Boardriders Purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-53885\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/authentic_brands.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"43\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/authentic_brands.png 213w, http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/authentic_brands-200x40.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/>Authentic Brands Group<\/strong> has officially completed its purchase of <strong>Boardriders<\/strong> (parent company to most every action sports brand you remember from your youth) for the alleged sale price of $1.25 billion and added a reported $1.4 billion to its annual sales totals, according to a blurb in <a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/business-news\/mergers-acquisitions\/authentic-brands-group-boardriders-29-billion-sales-1235784396\/\"><em><strong>Women&#8217;s Wear Daily<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In March, the brand development, marketing and entertainment firm inked a deal to acquire Boardriders, the parent of <strong>Quiksilver<\/strong>, <strong>Billabong<\/strong>, <strong>Roxy<\/strong>, <strong>RVCA<\/strong>, <strong>DC Shoes<\/strong>, <strong>Element<\/strong>, <strong>VonZipper<\/strong>, <strong>Honolua<\/strong> and Boardriders, for a reported $1.25 billion. At the time, Authentic had sales of $27.6 billion. . . The company said it would shortly begin to orchestrate its plan to \u201cannounce a roster of best-in-class partners around the world to help drive the brands in their next stage of growth.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And to think, it all started for <strong>Jamie Salter<\/strong> with a little company called <strong>Kemper Snowboards<\/strong>. Ah, those were the days, weren&#8217;t they?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/wwd.com\/business-news\/mergers-acquisitions\/authentic-brands-group-boardriders-29-billion-sales-1235784396\/\">WWD<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authentic Brands Group has officially completed its purchase of Boardriders (parent company to most every action sports brand you remember from your youth) for the alleged sale price of $1.25 billion and added a reported $1.4 billion to its annual sales totals, according to a blurb in Women&#8217;s Wear Daily. In March, the brand development, [&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":[3,4,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64954"}],"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=64954"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64958,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64954\/revisions\/64958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}