{"id":99277,"date":"2014-10-15T19:52:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T02:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=99277"},"modified":"2014-10-15T20:40:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T03:40:26","slug":"bob-mcknight-retires-as-executive-chairman-of-quiksilver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=99277","title":{"rendered":"Bob McKnight retires as Executive Chairman of Quiksilver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob McKnight, the co-founder of Quiksilver, will retire as Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors on the 31st October, 2014. Andrew P. Mooney takes his place at the surf brand headquartered in Huntington Beach, California.<\/p>\n<p>In 1969, Alan Green and John Law started Quiksilver in Torquay, Australia. Their first products were wetsuits and boardshorts. In 1976, Bob McKnight and Jeff Hakman took the brand to the USA\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/surfing\/11038-bob-mcknight-retires-as-executive-chairman-of-quiksilver?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+surfertoday%2Fsurfing+%28Surfing+News+%7C+SurferToday.com%29\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob McKnight, the co-founder of Quiksilver, will retire as Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors on the 31st October, 2014. Andrew P. Mooney takes his place at the surf brand headquartered in Huntington Beach, California. In 1969, Alan Green and John Law started Quiksilver in Torquay, Australia. Their first products were wetsuits and boardshorts. [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-sports-business-news","category-fashion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99277","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=99277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99298,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99277\/revisions\/99298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}