Gold Coast’s Kira Surf Gets Picked Up by Billabong
kailee bradstreet
- May 22 2008
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According to a story posted May 23 by the Australian goldcoast.com, Billabong has purchased the iconic Gold Coast retailer Kira Surf - a move that helps Billbong continue a major expansion to its international headquarters in Burleigh. Kira Surf, which was founded only four years after Billabong in 1974, has been a major part of the surf culture in the region, according to the story.
To read the entire story, go to goldcoast.com.
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May 22nd, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Here we go again— not enough with Quik going direct to the consumer via the web, TODAY. Now we have to see another Billabong retail shop- these guys are eating up key retailers all over the world, and turning them into extreme Billabong margin building locations for Billabong INC., I’m sure they’ll carry Billabong, Billabong Girls, VZ, Kustom, Xcel, Globe, and whatever other brands they acquire over the next year and beyond, only to phase out the brands that have grown within that community over years. Nice work -you Corporate Mother F-er’s, suck the blood out of our eclectic surf roots, and keep that fight on to over take Quik, sad to see what the likes of you do for bragging rights, to be the biggest in our little industry. Cheers to all you do !
July 7th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
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July 7th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
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