Quik reported numbers for the quarter ending October 31, 2009 today and they were down, but not as far as analysts were expecting, apparently. Analysts figured Quik would be down $6.4 million according to a story in the Orange County Business Journal. Consolidated net revenues for the quarter were down 11% and for fiscal 2009 were down 13% to $1.98 billion. Bob McKnight’s spin on the whole thing?
“Our fourth quarter was very challenging, as retailers bought conservatively for the holiday season and traffic in our own retail stores remained sluggish through October. In that context, we were pleased that our results were somewhat better than we expected. We also accomplished a number of important business objectives in the quarter. We reinforced our product leadership, maintained and even expanded our leading market share positions and staged a number of major events further connecting our brands with the broad group of consumers that either participate in or are inspired by action sports.”
Burton is going all in on their current Web Presents promotion and it’s worth checking out simply for the voyeuristic spectacle of the whole thing. It started on December 15, 2009 but we just got over to check it out.
The whole thing reminds us a little of the old JenniCam Show popular in the late 90s because it proves just how much we all love watching normal people do stuff no matter how boring it is.
Then again $1,000 shopping sprees to the “next person to walk into the NYC Burton store with a orange tank top on and say the words ‘cold room'” can be compelling content.
Snoop Dogg was on The View on Tuesday December 15, 2009 and while he was there he hooked the ladies up with some personalized Neff cupcake beanies and advice for Tiger Woods. How’s that for hitting moms with a little product placement right before Christmas?
Quiksilver will be holding an analysts’ call today (December 17, 2009) at 1:30 PT to discuss their Q4 fiscals results.
The broadcast will be hosted at quiksilverinc.com and at viavid.net. To listen to the broadcast, your computer must have Windows Media Player installed. . . A press release with third quarter results is expected to be issued after the close of the market on Thursday, December 17.
You may have missed the party, but there is no reason to miss all the madness that went down in the photo booth at Thrasher Magazine’s20th Annual Skateboarder of the Year Awards Party in San Francisco last Friday night December 11, 2009 at the Herbst Pavilion at Fort Mason.
Check it out and you might see a couple friendly faces . . . or maybe even a little more if you look very, very closely.
If nothing else it’s a great reminder that today’s digital photo booths aren’t exactly as private as they used to be.
In 2004 Stephen Cleary set out to create a layering company that worked on the slopes and looked good off the slopes, that company was eesa lux layering. . . it’s become time that the doors are closing at eesa and for Stephen Cleary to take a better opportunity that has come his way.
If we ignore the whole “death of a dream” thing, what this means to us is amazing deals on essa’s super smooth first layer gear and socks. Dive in. Most of it is under $10 and socks are under $5. Feeding frenzy.
Four years later and Lindsey Jacobellis is still answering for that method in Torino. This time to USA Today.
“I’ve been asked about it a million times,” she says. “My stock answer is: ‘I was pretty young and got caught up in the moment. I was having too much fun. I was excited to be in the finals, I almost got knocked out.’ “
Reminds us of a letter we wrote her back in 2006. . . The good news is she appears to be back on track for Vancouver and is busy (as the above pouty, doe-eyed, insouciant Under Armour photo would suggest) exploiting all of her talents this time around.
Yesterday during in Billabong Pipeline Masters quarter-final heat one between Dean Morrison and Damien Hobgood there was a little tangle up that beach reporter GT Tomlinson described as “a Burkhart” as seen in the film The North Shore.
CJ Hobgood posted a short video clip on The Goods website with the following comment:
For the record I have a great deal of respect for dingo and the ASP judges, Damo didn’t even want me to put this up. . . However I think this was something I couldn’t brush under the rug. . . LOL peeps
In his post heat interview the Dingo the the two were getting pretty physical out there and simply “got tangled up” because they were scrapping so hard. The fact that Dingo had priority at the time also entered into the discussion.
From our view, if the arm tangled in the leash had been on the back stoke (like Dingo’s right arm in the photo below) then the tangle claim would have had more validity. It appears, however, that it’s Dingo’s outstretched arm that is “tangled” in the leash.
Quik reported numbers for the quarter ending October 31, 2009 today and they were down, but not as far as analysts were expecting, apparently. Analysts figured Quik would be down $6.4 million according to a story in the Orange County Business Journal. Consolidated net revenues for the quarter were down 11% and for fiscal 2009 were down 13% to $1.98 billion.
