For the month of August, Transworld Business spoke with a number of industry heavyweights who are no strangers to riding out tough economic times to get their advice on surviving the troughs. Here’s what we found out.

Quiksilver announced today that Chartreuse & Mont Blanc, a company Jarden controls a minority interest in, will buy Rossignol for 100 million Euro.

In an exclusive interview with Transworld Business, Mike “Mack Dawg” McEntire shares his decision, upcoming movie projects, and his take on the state of the snowboard film industry.

Billabong International Limited announced a net profit after tax (NPAT) of A$176.4 million ($155.2 million) for its fiscal year ended June 30. The represents a 12.6% gain in constant currency terms and 5.5% in reported terms, reflecting the strength of the Australian dollar against the United States dollar.

Concerned with the effects of global warming and rising energy costs, snow sliding areas across the country are putting their money where their mouths are and building on-site renewable energy projects.

This Saturday, as rain streamed down along Colorado’s front range, reports of as much as a foot of snow in the high country (over 11,000 feet) caused road crews to shut down Loveland Pass. The heavy snows that blanketed the central mountains are melting as I write this, but the snowy peaks are a sign [...]

Landlocked shreds are getting creative to feed their surf fix and Evergreen, CO based Backwoods Stix is helping out by building river specific rides.

Storm Mountain Publishing has acquired Future US, Inc’s snowboarding division, which includes futuresnowboarding.com and their women’s specific magazine The Drift. Storm Mountain will also fulfill all Future Snowboarding subscriptions with SNOWBOARD magazine.

New “National Quotas” require countries to post top World Cup rankings to secure Olympic spots, have hopefuls scrambling to coordinate schedules, and have generated some serious contention between the USSA and FIS. Now for the good news – slopestyle is on schedule to potentially make a debut in 2014.