{"id":965,"date":"2008-07-02T03:49:04","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T11:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=965"},"modified":"2008-07-02T06:58:54","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T14:58:54","slug":"billabong-buys-sector-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=965","title":{"rendered":"Billabong Buys Sector 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And the latest in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billabong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> run to soak up every solid brand in the US comes news that the company has purchased <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector9.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sector 9<\/a><\/strong> for and undisclosed sum.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Queensland-based Billabong expects the business to add about 2% to group sales, implying the business generates $25 million to $30 million in sales.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sector 9&#8217;s products, primarily its longboards, really differentiate it from other brands in the boardsports channel and have appeal to surfers, skateboarders and the broader youth market,&#8221; Billabong chief executive Derek O&#8217;Neill said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Steve Lake<\/strong>, <strong>Dennis Telfer<\/strong> and co-owner <strong>Dave Klimkiewicz<\/strong> will continue on with what we&#8217;re guessing are nice looking buyouts for increasing sales down the road. Watchout, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Burton<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/business.theage.com.au\/billabong-ramps-up-us-expansion-plans-20080702-30qb.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Age<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the latest in Billabong&#8217;s run to soak up every solid brand in the US comes news that the company has purchased Sector 9 for and undisclosed sum. Queensland-based Billabong expects the business to add about 2% to group sales, implying the business generates $25 million to $30 million in sales. &#8220;Sector 9&#8217;s products, primarily [&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":[10,3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965"}],"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=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}