Agenda did its usual good job of putting on what I’ll call its youth culture show in Long Beach last Thursday and Friday. I don’t really like that term, but I like “action sports” less at this point in our industry’s evolution and I really hate “fashion.” And not everything is “urban” or “street” wear so it’s […]
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Billabong announced today that the interim financial deal with Altamont and its partners and the sale of Dakine to the same group had been completed. They also announced that their syndicated debt liabilities had been paid off in full and that the two proposed Altamont directors would join the board. Here’s the announcement on the Billabong investors
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Help me out here. Name me one company that (1) has its roots in action sports, (2) has grown to have revenues greater than, say, $200 million, (3) has gone public, (4) hasn’t been acquired and, (5) is continuing to grow and prosper. In retail, I’d name Zumiez though I imagine some people won’t like that.
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There are various articles flying around (and on Billabong’s web site) that tell us Oaktree Capital Management LP and Centerbridge Partners LP made an offer for Billabong yesterday (or the day before- I get confused about what day it is in Australia). As you know, the Altamont Consortium made, and Billabong accepted, an offer to buy
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As you have no doubt heard, Billabong has reached a deal with “…entities advised by Altamont and entities sub-advised by GSO Capital Partners1 (the credit arm of the Blackstone Group, and together with Altamont, the “Altamont Consortium”)” to sell Dakine to Altamont, get bridge financing to pay off its existing syndicated bank debt, put together
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I’ve gotten out of the habit of reviewing A&F’s results, but a cursory look at their 10Q intrigued me. You don’t typically see sales fall 9% while pretax income for the quarter improved (if that’s what you want to call it) from a loss of $30 million in last year’s quarter to a loss of $15
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