{"id":9944,"date":"2009-08-17T10:35:39","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T17:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9944"},"modified":"2009-08-17T10:35:46","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T17:35:46","slug":"new-era-buys-5th-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=9944","title":{"rendered":"New Era Buys 5th &#038; Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/new-era.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/new-era.jpg','popup','width=127,height=64,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\/08\/new-era-tm.jpg\" height=\"50\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"New Era\" \/><\/a>Big hat company <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neweracap.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Era Cap Co<\/a><\/strong>. Inc has reportedly purchased the Miami based apparel manufcaturer <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.5thocean.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">5th &#38; Ocean<\/a><\/strong> according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/buffalo\/stories\/2009\/08\/17\/daily11.html\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Business First<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>5th &#38; Ocean, a privately held firm, is a minority-certified manufacturer of licensed team sports and private-label items ranging from fleeces and tank tops to hooded sweatshirts and athletic shorts. Its client list includes <strong>Major League Baseball<\/strong>, <strong>Victoria&#8217;s Secret\/PINK<\/strong>, <strong>Disney Theme Parks<\/strong>, the <strong>Dallas Cowboys<\/strong> and <strong>K2 Sports<\/strong>. . . &#8220;To ensure the long-term growth of New Era in this changing economic landscape, we need to look for strategic ways to diversify our business,&#8221; said <strong>Chris Koch<\/strong>, New Era chief executive officer. &#8220;This acquisition of 5th &#38; Ocean continues to move us forward with our strategy to become a well-rounded lifestyle brand. This was an opportunity we simply could not pass up.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Big hats, big wallet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/buffalo\/stories\/2009\/08\/17\/daily11.html\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Business First<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big hat company New Era Cap Co. Inc has reportedly purchased the Miami based apparel manufcaturer 5th &#38; Ocean according to a story in the Buffalo Business First. 5th &#38; Ocean, a privately held firm, is a minority-certified manufacturer of licensed team sports and private-label items ranging from fleeces and tank tops to hooded sweatshirts [&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\/9944"}],"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=9944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9945,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9944\/revisions\/9945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}