Entries by jeff

Billabong’s Half Yearly Report; A Consistent Strategic Approach

Billabong management told us at least six months ago that 2011 would be a “transition year” and it is. But the strategy they started to tell us about a few years ago remains intact and they continue to pursue it. As I’ve written before, I generally agree with that strategy and my experience is that companies that […]

Skullcandy Going Public; What We Can Learn From Their SEC Filing

It’s always interesting when a company in the industry decides to go public. They’ve got to drop their drawers and provide you, in their S1 filing, with information you could only speculate about previously. If you want to see it, the whole thing is here. As of last week, Skullcandy’s drawers are well and truly dropped. Since I […]

Inventory Management and Customer Conversion/Retention in the Snow Sliding Business

SIA was kind enough to feed me a nice breakfast this (Friday) morning before the show opened. While I ate and drank coffee, people from the various industry organizations that are and have been involved in the industry’s programs to convert first time snow sliders talked to us about what they’ve accomplished and what more needs […]

Another New Retail Concept. Just What We Need.

Back in early December, I bookmarked an article I wanted to write about then promptly forgot about it with the holidays and other intriguing stuff going on. It was a short article in Stores News about Sports Authority starting to open stores called S. A. Elite. Like the story said (read it here), Sports Authority has […]

Quiksilver Files Its 10-K for the Year

Last week, Quik filed its’ annual 10-K report with the SEC covering the quarter and year ended October 31, 2010. They announced their earnings by press release and held a conference call back in December. I’m not going to reanalyze their financials. I did that last month and you can read it here. But the north of 100 pages […]