{"id":408,"date":"2008-02-12T20:51:14","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T04:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=408"},"modified":"2008-02-12T21:33:57","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T05:33:57","slug":"bye-bye-bernard-welcome-back-bob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=408","title":{"rendered":"Bye, Bye Bernard, Welcome Back Bob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/35547050-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/35547050-1.jpg','popup','width=300,height=400,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\/02\/35547050-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"266\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"35547050-1\" \/><\/a>According to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardsportsource.com\/show_news_item\/27414\/en\" target=\"_blank\">Boardsport Source<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Quiksilver, Inc<\/strong>. reported that <strong>Robert McKnight<\/strong> has resumed his role as president of Quiksilver, Inc. and remains both chairman of the board and CEO. Mr. McKnight will again direct the company&#8217;s strategic and operational initiatives as it focuses on its Quiksilver, <strong>Roxy<\/strong> and <strong>DC<\/strong> core apparel and footwear brands, seeks to improve its operating results and implements strategic initiatives for the <strong>Rossignol<\/strong> group.<\/p>\n<p>The company also announced that <strong>Bernard Mariette<\/strong> has resigned from his position as president and as a director of the company in order to pursue other interests, which may include attempting to acquire the Rossignol group. As previously announced, J.P. Morgan is conducting a process on behalf of the company to reduce its exposure to the winter sports equipment business, including a possible sale.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Avoir, Bernard. Hope you have better luck buying Rossignol the second time around. Quik was up 53 cents on the news.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardsportsource.com\/show_news_item\/27414\/en\" target=\"_blank\">Boardsport Source<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-quik13feb13,1,4290833.story\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Boardsport Source: Quiksilver, Inc. reported that Robert McKnight has resumed his role as president of Quiksilver, Inc. and remains both chairman of the board and CEO. Mr. McKnight will again direct the company&#8217;s strategic and operational initiatives as it focuses on its Quiksilver, Roxy and DC core apparel and footwear brands, seeks to [&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":[10,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408"}],"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=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}