Maybe a month ago, I was walking through a local mall visiting all the usual retailers to see how things looked. I stopped at a PacSun store and was attracted to a table with some Volcom shorts on it in colors I really liked. There was a sticker on the shorts that said, “Relaxed Fit.” I […]
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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There’s never time to write about everything I want to write about, and The Buckle is one that has often slipped through the cracks. And while there’s nothing dramatic to report, I thought it might be time to take a short look at their results. At the end of the quarter, The Buckle operated 443 stores
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For the quarter ended May 4, Tilly’s sales were $109 million. In last year’s quarter ending April 28, 2012, sales were $96.5 million. That 13% sales growth. But further down the income statement, we find that income before taxes fell 35% from $5.9 to $2.3 million. What went on? NOTE: Net income fell even more, from $5.9 to $2.3
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It’s Friday evening, my wife is out of town, and a friend sent me this article from May 20 announcing the debut referenced in the title. I’ve had a glass of wine and think I’m going to break a rule and have another one as I write this. Or more. God knows what I’ll end up saying. If you
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