{"id":9530,"date":"2009-07-30T08:31:39","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T15:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9530"},"modified":"2009-07-30T08:31:44","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T15:31:44","slug":"apo-snow-under-administration-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9530","title":{"rendered":"Apo Snow Under Administration Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/3-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/3-1.jpg','popup','width=510,height=722,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\/07\/3-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"141\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"3-1\" \/><\/a><strong>Regis Roland<\/strong>, visionary founder of the original <strong>Apocalypse Snow<\/strong> films and brand, put his French snowboard\/freeski company <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apo-snow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Apo Snow<\/a><\/strong> &#8220;into administration protection&#8221; on July 6, 2009, according to an interview on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardsportsource.com\/mail_outs\/show_news_item\/33494_APO-ANSWERS-RUMOURS\/en\" target=\"_blank\">Board Sports Source<\/a><\/strong>. Here&#8217;s some of what he had to say about it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think everybody has noticed that the financial crisis has hit companies badly and it has unfortunately hit my company at the wrong time. Indeed, in the past 5 years, we have been investing in costly innovative projects such as our patented bindings, (Our Dual Entry System) and more recently our new ski range. . .The returns have been decent, but as an independent brand, we do not have the financial clout to support such a large investment without the backing of a strong financial group or the support of our banks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Roland says the company is &#8220;not dead,&#8221; production of the 2009\/10 has been launched, and he is currently looking for a private investor to make the company stronger.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardsportsource.com\/mail_outs\/show_news_item\/33494_APO-ANSWERS-RUMOURS\/en\" target=\"_blank\">Board Sports Source<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regis Roland, visionary founder of the original Apocalypse Snow films and brand, put his French snowboard\/freeski company Apo Snow &#8220;into administration protection&#8221; on July 6, 2009, according to an interview on Board Sports Source. Here&#8217;s some of what he had to say about it. I think everybody has noticed that the financial crisis has hit [&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":[4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530"}],"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=9530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9531,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530\/revisions\/9531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}