Not that we want to continue on the bad news program, but Zumiez same store sales for the month of February were down, according to a press release on Market Watch:
Zumiez Inc. . . .announced the company’s comparable store sales decreased 13.4% for the four-week period ended February 28, 2009, versus a comparable store sales decrease of 2.6% in the year ago period ended March 1, 2008. Total net sales for the four-week period ended February 28, 2009 increased 0.2% to approximately $23.1 million, compared to approximately $23.1 million for the four-week period ended March 1, 2008.
Turns out people are only buying what they need these days. And apparently, they don’t need T-shirts with advertising all over them. To hear someone read the above quote please call (585) 295-6795.
Now we actually know someone who has done work for “the President of the United States of America.” Check out the new logos that designer Aaron Draplin worked on.
Creative director Steve Juras led designers Aaron Draplin and Chris Glass in the assignment to create two logos, one for projects completed under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), and the second for the U.S. Department of Transportation’s TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) team. Stay tuned …
Yesterday when news of former Billabong CEO Matthew Perrin’s bankruptcy began surfacing it was assumed that the family would not lose their $10 million AUS home at Cronin Island. Now, that’s not looking so clear, according to a story on Goldcoast.com.au.
Insolvency and Turnaround Solutions director Julie Williams, the controller of both companies, said the family’s personal assets, including a huge mansion at Cronin Island, ‘could be on the line’. . . . She said Mr Perrin’s wife, Nicole, a director of one of the companies, was guarantor for one on of the loans.
Whoops. . . The worst is in the stats: “The former Billabong CEO and BRW Rich List regular, who was worth about $150 million last year, owes at least $28 million to ‘banks and Chinese investors’.”
Burton photographer Jeff Curtes, along with Aaron Hooper, Gabriel L’Heureux, Alex Andrews, Keegan Valaika, and Kenneth Zima ran afoul of the law in the Twin Cities yesterday after police found them snowboarding in a West Seventh Street neighborhood, according to a story on Twincities.com.
They set up a 6-foot steel tower and connected a wooden ramp to it in a St. Paul neighborhood. Then, they snowboarded down the ramp, along a 2-foot ledge of a limestone cliff, and jumped — 20 to 30 feet onto the railroad tracks below, said one man who saw Monday’s action.
The paper reports that the snowboarder were rude to a local neighbor so the man called police:
“Eff you, eff this. We can do whatever we want. This is our job.” He asked not to be identified because he said he believes “these guys are important to the snowboard world” and he fears retribution from “their idols who feel they have been messed with.”
Luckily, the six were cited and then released. Maybe they should have been nicer to the nosey neighbor. . .
Last month we mentioned that the US Army Corp of Engineers was doing some clean up on two New Jersey beaches. According to a story in Press of Atlantic City, they found exactly what they were looking for.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Tuesday that a cleanup of munitions on beaches starting Jan. 26 has unearthed 453 potentially explosive items – almost half of what was previously found since a beachfill project was completed more than two years ago. On Feb. 10, the Army Corps said it had found only 20 items. By March 3, that number had increased more than 20 times.
The Mayor of Surf City is glad the explosives are being removed, but hope the Army can finish up before summer. “I’m glad they’re here doing this, but I just want them to get it done. They only have a few months’ window,” Mike Parascandolo said. “Memorial Day weekend is a good weekend, and they should be out of here – that’s what they say.”
British surfer and freelance writer Alex Wade, the author of the book Surf Nation, has been nominated for the UK’s “Sports Journalists’ Association Sports Feature Writer of the Year award” according to a story in This Is Cornwall.
Alex, who was shortlisted for three stories, two on surfing and one on boxing, says he was ‘stoked’ to be nominated. . . “I’d forgotten all about the awards, and didn’t for a moment think I’d be nominated,” he said. “But it’s also true to say that this year there were a record number of entries for the awards, owing to the number of staff journos having been laid off thanks to the credit crunch.
Wade is up for a national writing award and the local paper still puts his stoked in quotes. . . classic.
A 14-year-old snowboarder from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada is lucky to be alive today after being swept away in an avalanche while riding out of bounds at Mt. Washington, according to a story in the Vancouver Sun. His friends reported him missing at 3:30 PM.
Two hours later, at 5:30 p.m., searchers heard the boy calling for help near a precipice and were only able to reach him by descending on ropes. . . .The avalanche had pushed him up against a tree, which rescuers said saved him from being pushed over the cliff. . . .When rescuers uncovered him, they found he was hypothermic and both his legs were broken. . . He was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Comox, then air-lifted to B.C. Children’s Hospital in Vancouver.
Rob Williams, the 29-year-old founder of British online music equipment retailer Dolphin Music died Sunday March 1, 2009 at Verbier after falling more than 60 feet off a cliff, according to a story in the Daily Mail.
[Williams] and Jason Tavaria, also 29, had become separated from friends while snowboarding in the resort of Verbier. . . . They were part of a group of London-based entrepreneurs attending a conference. . . . Mr Williams’s body was discovered by search teams late on Monday, shortly after they found his mobile phone. . . .Local police confirmed that he had fallen 66 feet onto a bed of rocks.
Williams was in Verbier with Michelle Dewberry, the winner of the BBC show The Apprentice.
