Leave it to a small, local San Diego skate magazine Automatic to come up with something the corporate magazines could never figure out: a skate contest that draws retailers together to see who has the best shop team. It’s Saturday, August 6, 2008 at the ASR Show.
[Link: Battle Of The Shops]
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For those in foreign countries, it’s a nice way to do business: set up the distribution of your favorite brand, get it rolling, and then sell it back to the brand. For the brand it’s a relatively cheap way to expand into foreign markets (with much less risk). That’s what Volcom just did with their Japanese distributor.
This acquisition is a testament to the strength of our brand in Japan after working with our distributor for more than 15 years,” says Richard Woolcott, chairman and CEO of Volcom. “We are excited to culminate a longstanding relationship with an opportunity to work more closely with our accounts in this important territory, while retaining our Japan-based distribution team.”
When it works out nicely, it’s amazing.
[Link: OC Metro]
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Sure the targets are way too easy, but we laugh pretty much every time we read this blog. Here’s one more reason, you will soon.
[Link: You Will Soon]
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Okay, Chad. This little ASR party planner thing is actually a good idea. We used to think it was kind of dumb, but now that our corporate butt nuzzling skills are a bit out of practice, it is nice to have all the parties down in one little PDF. From the design it looks like we’re not the only one’s who’ve got a thing for Monocle Magazine.
Click the link to download it.
[Link: Nixon Party Planner]
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We haven’t been watching a whole lot of TV lately, so we learned about this DC Shoes TV commercial from a newspaper’s website. Yes, that’s how bad it’s gotten. Lehigh Valley Live’s Marcia White tipped us off to this Schoolhouse Rock Figure 8 riff. Check out the original Schoolhouse Rock version after the jump.
[Link: Lehigh Valley Live]
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The Orange County Business Journal has picked up the story about Quiksilver finding a buyer for Rossignol. Not much new in this story other than two interesting numbers:
Shares of Quiksilver were down nearly 4% near the close of trading Friday with a market value of $990 million.
And this one:
After fees, Quiksilver is expected to see about $100 million in proceeds from the sale, according to Kummetz. . . That stands to have a small impact on the company’s projected debt of $1.1 billion at the end of its fiscal year in October, the analyst said.
So, in layman’s terms: by the end of October Quiksilver will have more debt than market value to the tune of $110 million. We’re not analysts, but that doesn’t sound good.
[Link: Orange County Business Journal]
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It’s a part of skateboarding that most of the industry and corporate media ignores, yet each year more and more people are joining the best downhill skateboarders in the world at the Columbia River Gorge on the world famous Maryhill Loops Road for the Merryhill Festival of Speed.
Since Wednesday, more than 200 athletes from more than 10 countries have been screaming down the 2.2-mile road, which is owned by the nearby Maryhill Museum of Art and only open for special events. . . . Those who are here are some of the top competitors in the world, such as Siegrist, a three-time world champ; and Canada’s Scott “Scoot” Smith and Kevin “K-Rimes” Reimer, who both have three-to-one odds to win the downhill skateboard race.
The Merryhill Museum, with its view of the Columbia River, is one of the most beautiful places on the planet and while the event also features inline skating and “gravity bikes” we won’t let that keep us from being stoked on the work that John Ozman and the Volcanic Promotions crew do on the whole event.
For daily coverage of the event check out Silverfish Longboarding.
[Link: Merryhill Festival of Speed via Yakima Herald]
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Back in the day we were always bigger fans of Tony Alva, but obviously Stacy Peralta did things the right way. Now he’s on a podcast with LA’s KCRW.
Skate legend and director talks to Garth Trinidad about an artist with political undercurrents and hypnotic beats, cinematic music from the ‘80s, the haunting compositions of a UK band you can feel “in the core of yourself,” and a track from his own son, pianist Austin Peralta. His latest film, Made in America, is screening this week in LA.
The podcast is probably one that you should not miss. You know, if you’re an old guy who still pays attention to skateboarding. And the movie? Well, it’s documentary about the Crips and the Bloods. We’ll leave it at that.
[Link: KCRW via Transworld Skateboarding]
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