{"id":3494,"date":"2008-12-22T13:18:24","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T21:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3494"},"modified":"2008-12-22T14:23:19","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T22:23:19","slug":"is-quiksilver-setting-dc-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3494","title":{"rendered":"Is Quiksilver Setting DC Free?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/quik-dc.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/quik-dc.jpg','popup','width=389,height=58,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\/12\/quik-dc-tm.jpg\" height=\"29\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Quik Dc\" \/><\/a><strong>Bob McKnight,<\/strong> <strong>Joe Scirocco,<\/strong> <strong>Bruce Thomas<\/strong>, and <strong>Marty Samuels<\/strong> covered a lot of ground in last week&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3388\" target=\"_blank\">conference call<\/a><\/strong>, but there was one topic that they didn&#8217;t go over: the rumor that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quiksilver.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quiksilver<\/a><\/strong> is actively negotiating the sale of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcshoes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DC Shoes<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This rumor has gained momentum lately most likely because the deal seems to make sense. On the conference call DC was repeatedly spoken of as a bright spot in Quiksilver&#8217;s brand portfolio. If Quik could unload DC Shoes for somewhere in the $700 million range, that would go a long way toward covering the company&#8217;s $1 billion debt. It would also allow Quiksilver to get back to basics with its core business after spending a couple years running the whole expansion thing into the ground. Not to mention it being a relief to many DC employees who believe all their hard work is being blown by bad business decision at the mothership. It probably wouldn&#8217;t hurt the company&#8217;s stock price, either.<\/p>\n<p>So far no &#8220;official word&#8221; on the sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob McKnight, Joe Scirocco, Bruce Thomas, and Marty Samuels covered a lot of ground in last week&#8217;s conference call, but there was one topic that they didn&#8217;t go over: the rumor that Quiksilver is actively negotiating the sale of DC Shoes. This rumor has gained momentum lately most likely because the deal seems to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,4,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494"}],"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=3494"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3505,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions\/3505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}