With Chairman Ian Pollard calling this year the “most challenging period in the company’s history,” surf apparel giant Billabong released financial statements earlier this week that valued the brand as essentially worthless.
A handful of other brands under the Billabong umbrella — including Element skateboards — were also written down to a zero valuation, according to the statements.
With the bleak news, company stock fell 60 percent from last year, ending the day midweek at a few pennies over fifty cents per share … More
According to an investor relations report from Billabong released this morning, Billabong’s global sales revenues were down 13.5%, and the company saw an $859.5 million net loss after tax (after $867.2 million of predominately non-cash significant items) for the year ended June 30, 2013. The company, which recently announced a refinancing through Altamont Capital Group, also says it is nearing the final stages of that process. Here’s the full report from Billabong:
GOLD COAST, 27 August, 2013: Billabong International Limited (“Billabong”, the “Company” or the “Group”) today announces its full year financial results for the 12 months ended 30 June 2013.
See what happens when clothes come off and music turns up! We hijacked the Grove in Los Angeles and made it our summer playground for a few minutes.
Our friends in Passion Pit mashed up La Roux’s “I’m Not Your Toy” with Young the Giant’s “My Body” to create our exclusive flash mob track “My Body’s Not Your Toy”
The Santa Cruz City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved applying to the state to have the site of surfing pioneer Jack O’Neill’s original Surf Shop designated as a California Point of Historical Interest.
O’Neill, who lives in Pleasure Point, is synonymous with Santa Cruz, where he helped develop a world renown surfing culture beginning in 1959 and later  … More