{"id":831,"date":"2008-05-30T08:58:09","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T16:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=831"},"modified":"2008-06-02T09:02:33","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T17:02:33","slug":"uk-oneill-distributor-fires-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=831","title":{"rendered":"UK O&#8217;Neill Distributor Fires Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After some &#8220;accounting irregularities&#8221; were discovered <strong>Darren Spurling<\/strong>, the managing director of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blacksleisure.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Blacks Leisure<\/a><\/strong><strong>&#8216;s<\/strong> <strong>Sandcity<\/strong> division (sole distributor of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneilleurope.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">O&#8217;Neill<\/a><\/strong> clothing in the UK) was fired.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spurling had been suspended since March, when Blacks announced that Sandcity&#8217;s profits had been overstated by \u00a31m in the last financial year and a further \u00a31m since then. He leaves without a payoff. It is understood that the police are not involved. &#8220;There&#8217;s no suggestion of fraud and no cash left the business,&#8221; said a spokesman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2008\/may\/30\/retail\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After some &#8220;accounting irregularities&#8221; were discovered Darren Spurling, the managing director of Blacks Leisure&#8216;s Sandcity division (sole distributor of O&#8217;Neill clothing in the UK) was fired. Spurling had been suspended since March, when Blacks announced that Sandcity&#8217;s profits had been overstated by \u00a31m in the last financial year and a further \u00a31m since then. He [&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":[10,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831"}],"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=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}