It was only on January 1, 2011 that Chris and GenevieveGunnarson purchased the snow sculpting company they founded from Booth Creek, but now that they have there are some promotions to announce at Snow Park Technologies.
Chris Gunnarson now serves as owner and president. . . Genevieve Gunnarson, owner and vice president is now responsible for finance, human resources, marketing and strategic planning. . . Sarah Castaneda has been promoted to general manager. . .Michael Bettera has been promoted to director of operations, SPT Parks . . . Chris Castaneda has been promoted to director of operations . . Frank Wells has been promoted to senior project manger.
Congratulations to the entire SPT team. We’re hoping you all got raises as well. . . For more details follow the jump.
Staff hastily secured the store after the quake before rushing off to check on their families. . . Employee Marcel Hoogerwerf discovered the looting on Wednesday morning when he went to assess the damage. . . “They’ve just stolen jeans, hoodies, shoes and shorts,” he said. “I know I don’t own the gear but I feel semi-responsible for it. . . “They’ve taken luggage to put the stolen gear in. They’ve gone shopping when no one’s been here.”
Looters also made off with what Stuff reported as “a small amount of cash was also taken.” Classy.
Transworld Surfeditor Chris Cote is apparently looking for a new side gig in the salty snack food industry. Where exactly? With Ashton Kutcher’s new potato chip company PopChips.
Kutcher is looking for someone to follow him around, do some Tweeting, interview people at events and basically act as PopChip’s Vice President of Pop Culture. The job pays $50,000 for the year and according to this video, Chris Cote says he’s the man for the job.
Yesterday, on Steve Job’s 56th birthday, Apple announced an updated line of Macbook Pro computers. And what did they feature front and center? A photo of Billabong’sLaurie Towner charging Teahupoo. Apparently, someone at Apple has their priorities straight.
Stab Magazine was nice enough to transcribe Kelly Slater’s entire acceptance speech from last night’s ASP World Surfing Awards at the Gold Coast Convention Center in a story titled The King’s Speech. As Kelly is one of the most eloquent, insightful surfers who has ever lived we’d say it is well worth a read. Here is a little slice:
It’s been a magical occasion for me to win this title, in a lot of ways. Y’know, there’s the challenges, the obvious challenges. When I was getting back on the tour after taking a few years off, there was a lot of doubt whether I’d be even in a shot for the title. So at this age, I just turned 39 years old, and half of you guys out there, even to my face, make fun of me for being that old (laughs). It’s funny, ’cause it’s like you see all these changes happen in people over the years, and when I got on tour I was kinda the hated little kid and now I’m like, the loved old guy by all the older guys that used to hate me when I was a little kid. ‘Cause they’re like, “You’re keeping the dream alive mate (in his best Australian accent), for all us old guys.”
Friends and family of NSSA co-founder and USASA founder Chuck Allen, who died on Valentine’s Day, will gather at the Huntington Beach Pier on Sunday, February 27, 2011 at 1 PM (PST) for a paddle out in his memory, according to a post on the NSSA website.
Huntington Beach Pier was a favorite surf break of Chuck’s where he coached the National Champion Huntington Beach High School surf team for many years. One of his greatest achievements was leading the USA Surf Team to a gold medal at the 1984 World Championships which was held in Huntington Beach. Chuck’s contribution to surfing, snowboarding and the entire action sports industry is unparalleled. His wisdom and inspiration has touched the hearts of many.
Volcom today (February 24, 2011) released their fourth quarter and full-year financials along with news that they will purchase 10 of their outlet stores from a licensee. Not a bad way to build the retail portfolio while managing overstock.
As part of the company’s direct to consumer strategy, Volcom has signed a definitive agreement to terminate the current Volcom outlet license agreement and purchase the assets related to the operation of the 10 existing Volcom outlet stores, which are located in California (4), Nevada (3), Washington (2) and Utah (1). The company anticipates completing the transaction by mid-2011. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
For the 2010 fourth quarter, total consolidated revenues increased 22.4% to $78.6 million, compared with $64.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2009. Total revenues in the company’s U.S. segment were $54.3 million, compared with $46.0 million in the prior-year period. Total revenues in the company’s Europe segment were $12.8 million, compared with $12.9 million in the same period in 2009. Total revenues in the company’s Electric segment were $6.4 million, compared with $5.3 million in 2009. Total revenues in the company’s Australia segment were $5.1 million.
Revenue for the year grew 15.2 percent to $323.2 million and the company netted $22.3 million.
It was only on January 1, 2011 that Chris and Genevieve Gunnarson purchased the snow sculpting company they founded from Booth Creek, but now that they have there are some promotions to announce at Snow Park Technologies.
