When Transworld Business broke the story that Roxy was launching a direct-to-consumer e-commerce site back in December ’07 with an exclusive interview with Quiksilver Americas President Marty Samuels, the issue of manufacturers selling product direct to the consumer online became a hot topic on our site’s message boards. TWBIZ asked Samuels when Quiksilver’s site would go live, and he said it wouldn’t happen until the marketing, product, retail, and affiliate components were totally dialed in.
Well, the wait is over. Quiksilver launched the new site at 5 A.M. on May 22.
May 14–17, 2008 marked the 11th Annual SIMA Surf Summit in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. This year’s event was full of thought-provoking lectures, interesting presentations, and of course, the SIMA Image Awards Party. The Summit acts as an annual meeting of the surf industry tribe, and brings people together for a few days of educational seminars and network opportunities.
Here’s a photo gallery with nearly 50 photos from this year’s event.
The Third Annual Slosh-A-Bout was held this week in a remote location on the East Cape of Baja Mexico. While the underground event has no official sponsors—you’ll understand why when you see these photos—a diverse crew of the surf industry’s finest show up every year for a chance at the title. This year the stakes [...]
On May 8, Hawaii/ Sun Valley-based entrepreneur and principal owner of C4 Waterman, Mike Fox acquired Boardworks International for an undisclosed sum. Boardworks is an Oceanside, California based manufacturing and distribution company that currently produces sandwich construction board models from 15 prominent shapers including Ben Aipa, Bill Stewart, Mike Hynson, as well as SUP boards from C4 Waterman, which are designed by Dave Parmenter and Brian Keaulana.
Zumiez Inc. bounced back from a negative comp in March to post a 4.1% increase in same-store sales for April 2008. Net sales increased 20%, to 24.2 million-dollars. So far for the year the company’s comps are pretty much flat, which might not sound good, but it is. If they can end up flat for the first half of the year, it’ll be better than the company’s guidance of a negative low single-digit comp for the period.
PacSun’s April comp was up 4-percent, versus a 5.6-percent consensus. That means it’s quarterly comp was down one-percent. So PacSun is lowering its guidance from a $0.06-$0.08 loss to a $0.10-$0.11 loss.
Here’s the breakdown by category: Girls up mid-30s, Guys up low-double-digits, Footwear down mid-50s, and Accessories down low teens.
Here’s the release:
Pacific Sunwear Announces [...]
Here’s an interesting little nugget of news. Apparently there’s a trademark dispute going on over the letter “X”. You’ve got to be stoked if you’re a lawyer in this country! True to our nation’s litigious nature, ESPN Inc. has sued Quiksilver Inc. on claims that it violated the cable channel’s X-Games franchise.
[Read statements from both sides right here, only at twsbiz.com]
Active Rideshop opened the doors to its 25th store on Saturday, April 26 in The Irvine Spectrum. The store features the same assortment as other Active locations, and includes both apparel and hardgoods. The store’s location is in a highly competitive retail area, so Transworld Business decided to see how things are going so [...]
In Early April, DC announced that the brand’s Co-Founder and Executive Vice President, Damon Way, would be transitioning into a role as a consultant. The very next day a press release came out saying that Way was taking on the position as Chief Brand Officer for an Apple accessories company called Incase. Transworld Business [...]
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