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In the quarter ended April 30, Quiksilver’s revenue fell 10.4% from $456 to $408 million. The net loss grew from $32.4 to $53.1 million. Discontinued product lines contributed $9 million to revenue in last year’s quarter, but none in this year’s. A year ago, they also owned Mervin and the Hawk brand. I’m a little surprised they didn’t mention how much revenue those brands contributed a year ago.

I’ll spare you a long quote from CEO Andy Mooney on the profit improvement plan (PIP), but basically he says, we’ve done what we said we’d do and we’ll do more. He notes they’ve   …  More

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Taylor Bingaman is an all terrain shredder! Watch as he shreds the skatepark with some homies in this “In the Park” for Creature Skateboards, Independent Trucks and Mob Grip. Strange Notes skateboarding.

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Harley Clifford has stolen the BroStock 2014, at Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri.

The weather forecast forced organizers to run contest in one day, for the first time in nine editions. Therefore, the five-man final round was removed, and the 10-man semifinal became the final.

Twenty-two of the best riders in the world took to the water and put on a show. Giant double ups served up by the Axis A24, and driven by wake legend Gregg Necrason, were attacked during what became six hours of nonstop action.

This time, riders agreed   …  More

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