{"id":140224,"date":"2018-02-24T20:19:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T03:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=140224"},"modified":"2018-02-24T20:19:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T03:19:42","slug":"billabong-warns-of-wipeout-if-quiksilver-takeover-sinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=140224","title":{"rendered":"Billabong warns of wipeout if Quiksilver takeover sinks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">Struggling surfwear icon Billabong has warned it cannot carry on business as usual if a takeover by the owner of rival Quiksilver does not proceed, as the company reported worsening revenue and net loss for the first half of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">Billabong posted a net loss of A$18.4 million ($20m) for the six months to December 31, worse than A$13m a year earlier, while revenue declined seven per cent to A$476.4 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">The company reiterated it expects\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/business\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=3&amp;objectid=12001550\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Struggling surfwear icon Billabong has warned it cannot carry on business as usual if a takeover by the owner of rival Quiksilver does not proceed, as the company reported worsening revenue and net loss for the first half of the year. Billabong posted a net loss of A$18.4 million ($20m) for the six months to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,77,11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-sports-business-news","category-fashion","category-misc","category-surf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140225,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140224\/revisions\/140225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}