In only three short years we will be seeing the worlds best snowboarders compete at South Korea’s Bokwang Phoenix Park. …
Surfstitch Has Got Billion Dollar Dreams
Surfstitch has reported a pretty awesome first half of the year putting them on target to reach (and possibly exceed) …
Anyone Want The 2022 Winter Olympics?
Photos via macos.livejournal.com Oslo has pulled out of the bidding process for the 2022 Winter Olympics – this follows an exit …
Skullycandy IPO – Now Valued At Over Half A Billion
Skullycandy listed on the Nasdaq in the US last night with the stock opening at US$20 a share and rising to US$23.40 and finishing at US$19.86. The public offering raised $188.8 million for the company which now has a total valuation at over half a billion dollars. The company expected to sell 8.33 million shares at $17 to $19 but due to high demand ended up selling 9.44 million shares at $20. The money raised will be …
The Full Interview With Steve Berra – Part 2 of 4
As mentioned at the beginning of part 1, a much edited down version of this interview originally appeared in issue 18 of Pop Magazine. Steve Berra gave up hours of his time to sit with our writer, Steele Saunders, and talk about The Berrics, his history and his opinions on the direction of skateboarding. It’s an amazing interview – the full text is being released in four parts, this is part one. All up it is 17,000 words and I’ve listened to it and read it over a dozen times so …
U.S. Sees Record $3.3 Billion In Sales Last Season
Here’s a bit of good news to start the week… The U.S. has seen a record season in sales for snow sports gear. There was a total of US$3.3 billion in sales made – $300 million up on the previous record set over the ’07-’08 northern winter. Chris Clark, the director of marketing for skiing/mountaineering company Scarpa said, “… In general, sales mirrors snowfall. It doesn’t matter what the economy’s doing.” That’s great news for Australian retailers right now with …
Billionaire Boys Club Outerwear Jacket
Billionaire Boys Club is launching a limited outerwear jacket through The Ice Cream Store in Tokyo on November 15th. The …
DC Worth Half a Billion Dollars!
The rumors that VF have got their hands on one of my favorite shoe companies, DC, are hotting up. Transworld …
O’Neill sells up!
At first there doesn’t appear to be anything interesting about this news – according to Transworld, O’Neill has sold its …
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Education Day: No Longer a Mystery There are a variety of ways of categorizing kinds of schooling. It’s the wonderful …
Surfstitch Smashing Their Guidance
Surfstitch are riding high after needing to issue a note to correct their guidance from their prospects… In the right …
Bob McKnight Retires As Quiksilver’s Executive Chairman
Image via Transworld Business Bob McKnight is retiring from Quiksilver as Executive Chairman and will now just serve on the …
Good Reads
Apple will buy Tesla for $75b in 18 months A Shootout for the Pentagon’s New Pistol Contract Inside Elon Musk’s …
Nick Woodman Owns GoPro – Worth Over $1Bn
Ever wondered who owns GoPro? Me neither! Until I came across this article on Nick Woodman who founded the company and is now worth more than a billion dollars. Those crazy little cameras that poke off the …
How To Turn Billabong Around
It has not been a good day for the Billabong guys. The share price has hit .90c – below the level most analysts expected. If you believe the Sydney Morning Herald, Gordon Merchant is in hiding over at Jeffries Bay, Chairman Ted Kunkel is on the way out and Laura Inman may end up being one of the shortest serving CEO’s of …
Billabong Gives The Trump Treatment To CEO Derek O’Neill
Billabong have replaced long time employee Derek O’Neill with former Target boss Launa Inman as CEO. Inman’s skills seem to revolve around retail which suggests Billabong may be doubling down on their (so far) failed retail strategy rather than taking a different path. Got to admire the balls it takes to do that…
Billabong Rejects Take Over Bid
Billabong has rejected an increased take over offer from private equity firm, TPG. The company increased the offer to $3.30 a share despite a partial sale of Nixon but key shareholders said that they weren’t interested for anything under $4 a share. The new offer valued Billabong at $841.8 million which is a long way from highs of 2007 when it was worth more like $3.84 billion. We’ve covered …
The Full Interview With Steve Berra – Part 4 of 4
It’s taken a little white to get here but it is well worth the wait! Steele Saunders has become a semi-qualified audio tech and has cleaned up all four parts of the interview with Berra to make for much easier listening. In this section Berra talks about making films, the reasons for starting the Berrics and the logistics of the park. You can read …
ISAORA :: Winter ’11
ISAORA make kick ass stuff. You should like it, and you shouldn’t get scared by the price tag – this stuff is quality.
Billabong Reports On Difficult Year With Bright Spots
Billabong has dropped its full year financial report and it’s got some expected and some not so expected results in there. The way everyone has been talking, you’d think every clothing brand in the world was about to pack up the sewing machines and call it a day but BBG raised their total revenue by 23.8% to $1.68 billion… Nothing Io sneeze at. It’s been a tough year and the strengthening Australian dollar is having an effect… But Australian’s also contributed just over half a …
The BBC On The Surf Industry
The BBC has a rad article up about the history of the surf industry. It focuses on O’Neill which, here in Australia, seems like a weird brand to work from but overseas it is still a powerhouse. The article notes that it is a US$6.24 billion industry in the States alone and its trek into the mainstream is continuing with global fashion firms like PPR buying in through brands like Volcom and Nike making considerable marketing pushes based on the sports. This despite a few …
Red Bull’s Media Push
A few weeks back, Red Bull released the ‘Red Bulletin’ as a free insertion in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle and New York Daily News – 1.2 million copies of a magazine dedicated to the Red Bull happenings around the globe. It’s part of a major push into media by the company which hopes to leverage it’s amazing roster of athletes and incredible events to create interesting advertorial. There’s no doubt the company has the …
In the News feat. Doutzen Kroes
Hope you all had a great break over the last few days – I’ve done the usual Christmas thing, that …
Surfing ‘Makes it Rain’ on the Gold Coast
Surfing, once the sport of hippies, now shovels $3.3 billion into the Gold Coast economy every year. According to the …
Skateboarding Statistics
Shop Eat Surf has an interesting article this morning on statistics in the skateboard industry. The article is actually about …
U.S. Snowboarder Magazine’s Parent Company Files for Bankruptcy
Shop-Eat-Surf reports that, “Source Interlink, the company that publishes Surfing, Surfer, Skateboarder, Snowboarder and five other action sports magazines and …
“business of boardsports takes hardcore credibility, dude”
Whilst searching the internets this morning I came accross an article in The International Herald Tribune titled “The business of …
Friday Rumor Mill
Ever since the global economy shat it’s pants, there has been a slew of rumors surrounding various companies and their …
Blog Updates
Shameless self promotion? I know. I’m currently on a serious business trip to Brighton in Utah closing deals and buying …
DC For Sale?
A little while ago we fanned the rumor mill surrounding Quiksilver amid speculation they were being purchased by VF Corp. …
Quiksilver Sold to VF Corp?
As all the avid shoutbox watchers will have noticed, there’s a rumor flying around about Quiksilver being purchased by VF …
Burton ’09 Love Boards Attract Controversy
Reading this made me so angry I had to post something up… Burton’s ’09 Love boards have appeared on CNN …
In other internet news…
In other internet news, Pharrell Williams/Nigo brands, Billionaire Boys Club and Ice Cream, have launched a new blog. To catch …
Oakley sells to Luxottica.
Luxottica, the European optical company behind Arnette, have purchased Oakley for US$2.1 Billion. The deal has been termed a “merger” …