{"id":1214,"date":"2008-07-21T08:49:23","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T15:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2008-07-21T11:36:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T18:36:28","slug":"volcom-buys-laguna-surf-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1214","title":{"rendered":"Volcom Buys Laguna Surf &#38; Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/lagunasf.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/lagunasf.jpg','popup','width=376,height=260,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/lagunasf-tm.jpg\" height=\"138\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Lagunasf\" \/><\/a>Any wonder why core retailers are getting a little more worried everyday with the &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1126\" target=\"_blank\">vertical integration<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; sweeping the industry? Here&#8217;s more fuel for the fire. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.volcom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Volcom<\/a><\/strong> has just &#8220;agreed to acquire the retail operations of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfandsport.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laguna Surf &#38; Sport<\/a><\/strong><strong>&#8220;<\/strong> including its two locations in Laguna Beach and Aliso Viejo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Laguna Surf &#38; Sport has been a landmark on the Southern California surf and skate scene for many years and this acquisition further demonstrates our dedication to core retail and its importance to Volcom,&#8221; said <strong>Richard Woolcott<\/strong>, chairman and chief executive officer of Volcom. &#8220;It&#8217;s great to now be more strongly aligned with one of our longest standing accounts and we look forward to working together even more closely in the years to come.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Great for Volcom (the stock is up 64 cents on the news), bad for competing Ma and Pa retailers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/portal\/site\/google\/?ndmViewId=news_view&amp;newsId=20080721005176&amp;newsLang=en\" target=\"_blank\">BusinessWire<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any wonder why core retailers are getting a little more worried everyday with the &#8220;vertical integration&#8221; sweeping the industry? Here&#8217;s more fuel for the fire. Volcom has just &#8220;agreed to acquire the retail operations of Laguna Surf &#38; Sport&#8220; including its two locations in Laguna Beach and Aliso Viejo.&#8221; Laguna Surf &#38; Sport has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}