Not that it’s the kind of ranking that anyone but a short-seller would be happy about, but Quiksilver topped out on The Wall Street Journal’s NYSE Biggest Percentage Decliners ranking list for the day of September 4, 2009 with a drop of 17.48 percent.
Apparently the market wasn’t too stoked about the company’s projected $6.2 million loss for Q4, according to the Orange County Business Journal.
[Link: Wall Street Journal and Orange County Business Journal]
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After reading retail and brand specialist Bertrand Pellegrin’s (pictured right) new book Branding the Man: Why Men are the Next Frontier in Frashion Retail, SF Gate men’s fashion writer Aaron Britt went out with the man himeself to find San Francisco best men’s shopping environment. Their favorite: Mollusk Surf Shop at 4500 Irving St.
The large, open space felt immediately authentic, charmingly quirky and instantly right. The breadth of merchandise, sunny, smart and ineffably Californian aesthetic made you want to flop down on one of the couches to peruse a book of photographs or sneak into one of the hidden gallery spaces to check out the preponderance of art displayed. Owner John McCambridge did much of the design himself, and the homespun, design-school-meets-driftwood-collector vibe is altogether enchanting. . . Pellegrin called it one of the best new retail environments he’d seen in the Bay Area in years. “For a fraction of the cost most retailers spend on interior design,” he said, “Mollusk not only communicates its story but offers an environment that somehow doesn’t even feel like a store. It’s a state of mind. . . “I went back and a surfer walked in with his board, barefoot, wet and sandy and no one batted an eye. Now that’s authentic.”
Guess as a retailer you can’t really get a better review that this. Then again, if someone like Bertrand Pellegrin like’s your shop you have to wonder a little, don’t you?
[Link: SF Gate]
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Blogger and former Surfline Power Ranker Lewis Samuels appears to be throwing in the towel on what he called The Post Surf Project. In a post titled Epilouge he broke it down like this.
I am not Lewis Samuels. . . That ended long ago, amidst the pixels and fuckery, clammy clickthroughs, custard pudding bastards, vitriolic comments, tags, tapioca fuckwits and strewn code. A writer does not write the truth about themselves. They leverage words to obscure things. They write the truth about other people, and leave themselves out of it. . . The surf industry is not surfing. My brief forays into the dark, sickly heart of the matter have reminded me of that. Over the course of the last nine months on PostSurf, I’ve simply tried to remind others of this fact. The PostSurf story has proven my point.
We’re not really sure what any of this means exactly, and were not sure that we’re going to miss it, as great as it sometimes was. We’re guessing there is a little more to this story. If you know it, let us know.
[Link: Post Surf]
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Looks like the high-flying celebrity life is taking its toll on Tony Hawk. Can you believe how quickly he’s aged?
Okay, it’s just make up for his “Mad Professor” character in some upcoming Huckjam Bicycle commercials.
[Link: Yfrog]
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Unless you really have time to focus on them, Twitter interviews are a pain in the ass to follow.
Since we are actually interested in what Rome’s John Cavan has to say (and he is still saying it as we type) we decided to compile the entire Twitter stream in chronological order. That means we’ve made it really easy to read the whole chat from the beginning to the end.
Follow the jump and you’ll see what we mean. . .
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[Link reminder via Transworld Business]
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Delia Bautista-Cruz, 31, of Navoto, California pleaded guilty to hit-and-run yesterday after hitting a 14-year-old skater and then driving away.
The collision occurred on June 29 on Ignacio Boulevard, where a tan Ford Explorer clipped a 14-year-old boy who was skateboarding with friends across the four-lane road. The Explorer was traveling an estimated 25 to 30 miles an hour, and the boy fell to the ground. . . The victim’s friends heard the driver say “Oh my God” before driving off, authorities said. . . The injured skateboarder was treated at Marin General Hospital for cuts to his face and scrapes to his arms and legs. The boy received several stitches to his face and has permanent scarring, the district attorney’s office said.
Cruz, who had no license and is on “a no-bail federal immigration hold” which means she may be deported after she serves her time.
[Link: Contra Costa Times]
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Yep, we’ll probably have to go to this one as well. . . The Brixton/ Crossroads After Party at Matt Hensley’s Flying Elephant Pub at I-5 and Tamarack in Carlsbad.
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Stop motion is cool.
[Link: via @timzimmerman via @robbiesell]
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Quiksilver reported their third quarter financials this afternoon and while things weren’t all rosey they were inline with what the street was expecting according to The Wall Street Journal.
For the quarter ended July 31, the Huntington Beach, Calif., company reported a profit of $1.3 million, or one cent a share, down from $2.9 million, or two cents a share, a year earlier. Per-share earnings from continuing operations fell to three cents from 25 cents. . . Revenue decreased 11% to $501.4 million, while gross margin fell to 46.7% from 50.4%. . . . Revenue in the company’s Americas segment fell 6%, while European sales dropped 8%, on a constant currency basis. Sales in the Asian/Pacific segment rose 12% on a constant-currency basis.
Follow the jump for the press release or click here to read it in PDF form.
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