{"id":8904,"date":"2009-06-25T14:30:47","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T21:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8904"},"modified":"2009-06-25T19:11:57","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T02:11:57","slug":"gomez-sells-sessions-and-stays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8904","title":{"rendered":"Gomez Sells Sessions And Stays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/sessions.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/sessions.jpg','popup','width=443,height=75,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\/2009\/06\/sessions-tm.jpg\" height=\"33\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Sessions\" \/><\/a><strong>Joel Gomez<\/strong> has sold the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sessions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sessions<\/a><\/strong> brand and trademark to a new company that is backed by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.samsungamerica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Samsung America<\/a><\/strong>, according to press release on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/business.transworld.net\/2009\/06\/25\/sessions-sells-brand-trademark-to-newly-created-firm\/\" target=\"_blank\">TransWorld Business<\/a><\/strong>. The new company will, not surprisingly, be called <strong>Sessions, LLC<\/strong> and will continue to do the same thing they&#8217;ve been doing only now they&#8217;ll be doing it with someone else&#8217;s money.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cEven in these difficult times, Cindi and I felt strongly that, with the right business model and team, we could capitalize on over 20 years of experience and brand equity\u201d said Joel Gomez in a statement. \u201cCindi and I have great confidence in the viability of this brand. We have a strong and experienced team and with Samsung as a partner, we now have the necessary capital to assure a smooth transition and continued success.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One more reminder that <em>in these economic times<\/em> there&#8217;s nothing better than a big, fat paycheck. Follow the jump for the entire press release.<br \/>\n<!--more-->Sessions Announces the Sale of its Brand &#38; Trademark<\/p>\n<p>Scotts Valley, CA, June 25, 2009- Sessions, a recognized leader in snow sports apparel since 1983, announced that it has sold its brand and trademark rights to Sessions, LLC, a newly formed company, which will continue to design, market and distribute action sports apparel under the Sessions brand name.<\/p>\n<p>The Company is based in Scotts Valley, CA and includes amongst its new shareholders, Samsung America, Inc., which will assume logistical and financial duties. Joel Gomez and Cindi Busenhart, founder and president, respectively, of Sessions, will move to the new entity and be responsible for all design, merchandising, production, sales and marketing.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership will allow the Company to take advantage of the Samsung\u2019s strong financial support to secure production and accounts receivable financing.  Additionally, Sessions will utilize Samsung\u2019s warehousing and distribution facilities as well as world class inventory systems.  While details of the transaction were not revealed, management stated that product quality and customer service should not be affected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven in these difficult times, Cindi and I felt strongly that, with the right business model and team, we could capitalize on over 20 years of experience and brand equity\u201d said Joel Gomez in a statement. \u201cCindi and I have great confidence in the viability of this brand.  We have a strong and experienced team and with Samsung as a partner, we now<br \/>\nhave the necessary capital to assure a smooth transition and continued success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More about Sessions at www.sessions.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel Gomez has sold the Sessions brand and trademark to a new company that is backed by Samsung America, according to press release on TransWorld Business. The new company will, not surprisingly, be called Sessions, LLC and will continue to do the same thing they&#8217;ve been doing only now they&#8217;ll be doing it with someone [&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":[10,4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8904"}],"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=8904"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20451,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8904\/revisions\/20451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}