{"id":9478,"date":"2009-07-28T07:53:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T14:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9478"},"modified":"2009-07-28T07:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T14:56:00","slug":"cons-hurley-nikes-gifted-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9478","title":{"rendered":"CONS &#038; Hurley: Nike&#8217;s Gifted Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/071209m-11-1.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/071209m-11-1.jpg','popup','width=750,height=1000,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\/2009\/07\/071209m-11-1-tm.jpg\" height=\"266\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"071209M  11-1\" \/><\/a>Last weekend it seemed like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hurley<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"htp:\/\/www.converse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Converse<\/a><\/strong> just couldn&#8217;t get enough of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usopenofsurfing.com\/site6.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">US Open of Surfing<\/a><\/strong> in Huntington Beach. Their logos where everywhere the event&#8217;s 500,000 visitors looked. But after seeing <strong>Nike&#8217;s<\/strong> numbers from the fiscal year which ended on May 31, 2009 it looks like Nike was simply playing into their strengths.<\/p>\n<p>According to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsonesource.com\/news\/article_home.asp?Prod=1&amp;section=4&amp;id=28953\" target=\"_blank\">Sports One Source<\/a><\/strong> <strong>Converse<\/strong> and <strong>Hurley<\/strong> were two of Nike&#8217;s brightest shining stars in an otherwise flat year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Converse posted a 12.6% increase in revenues for the fiscal 2009 year, reaching $915.3 million for the year. . . Hurley revenues jumped 18.6% to $202.9 million for the year from $171.1 million in the prior year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How&#8217;s that for beating the market?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsonesource.com\/news\/article_home.asp?Prod=1&amp;section=4&amp;id=28953\" target=\"_blank\">Sports One Source<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend it seemed like Hurley and Converse just couldn&#8217;t get enough of the US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach. Their logos where everywhere the event&#8217;s 500,000 visitors looked. But after seeing Nike&#8217;s numbers from the fiscal year which ended on May 31, 2009 it looks like Nike was simply playing into their strengths. [&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\/9478"}],"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=9478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9480,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9478\/revisions\/9480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}