I thought the Altamont deal would happen. I figured Billabong just had to get a deal done. That’s what they were doing until Centerbridge Partners and Oaktree Capital Management (we’ll call them the Consortium as Billabong does) asked the Australian Government’s Takeover Panel to take a look at the deal. Basically, the Consortium claimed that the deal […]
Billabong’s Deal. I Didn’t See This One Coming. Read More »
It’s almost unanimous. Companies in our industry, (whatever industry we’re in) or for that matter most other industries, are cutting expenses, rationalizing supply chains, targeting marketing efforts, cutting SKUs, creating omni channels, growing ecommerce business, being more discriminating in distribution and generally doing all the things they have to do if they assume that sales growth
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We will, of course, get to the numbers. Among other things, we’ll talk about the impact of an extra week and their derivative liability. But let’s start by jumping right to the conference call and noting some things CEO Gary Schoenfeld says. He defines their core customer as “…the more fashion-savvy, older teen and early 20
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Globe reported a loss for the year ended June 30 of $6 million compared to a profit of $62,000 in the prior calendar period (pcp). That’s in Australian dollars, as are all the numbers in this article. Total revenues rose 2% from $83 to $84.1 million. The Globe brand was up 10%, but Dwindle fell 15%. Cost of sales
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Billabong released its results for the year ended June 30, 2013 a few days ago, and I’ve been plowing through the 200 or so pages of material and listening to the conference call. My recent writings about public companies have been lamenting that they are public. Not just because they have to share their travails
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There are two things that really struck me in reading Spy’s June 30 10Q (which you can read here). You may not have seen them because, unlike you, I delight in reading small print and conference call transcripts. Perhaps “delight” is too strong a word. Anyway, the first thing I saw was that they had no (as
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If you’re a homeowner, you know that you can never complete your project list. All you can do is try to keep it from getting longer. At our house, outside projects are my job and in the Northwest, that means get them done in the summer. In the spirit of shortening the list, I stopped by a
Deckers, as you know, owns UGG, Teva and some other smaller brands as well as Sanuk. At June 30, they had 89 retail stores as well. In the quarter ended June 30, Deckers reported sales that fell 2.5% to $170 million compared to last year’s June 30 quarter. The gross profit margin declined from 42.2% to 41.1%. Selling,
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VF’s net income fell 11% from $155.4 million in the quarter to $138.3 million in the same quarter last year. But last year’s quarter included a gain of $41.7 million from the sale of the John Varvatos brand that was booked under Other Income (Expense). In this year’s quarter, instead of a gain of $41.6 million, that
VF’s June 30 Quarter; Net Income Down, But Kind of Not Really. Read More »
As you are probably aware, Billabong yesterday published a press release announcing the expected resignation of Launa Inman as CEO and of Paul Naude as a director and employee. It also said that, “Discussions with Scott Olivet regarding his appointment as CEO are continuing but have not been finalised as we await the outcome of the
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