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...Boardriders, the owner of the rival Quiksilver and Roxy brands, said it hoped to hire Billabong chief executive Neil Fiske. *This post has been amended to correct the spelling of Quiksilver....
...Billabong has become the latest Australian surfwear company to fall into American hands after agreeing to a takeover by US-based Boardriders, parent of the Quiksilver brand....
...GBG has a portfolio of brands it controls and licences, including Calvin Klein, Under Armour, Juicy Couture and Quiksilver, among others....
...Quiksilver is the latest retailer to file for bankruptcy protection....
...The list of 47 filings includes RadioShack, Patriot Coal and Quiksilver, the surfwear retailer....
...The market was less kind to Quiksilver....
...In the US, retail stocks continued to suffer from flagging sales during the long, cold winter that dominated the first three months of the year, with shares in outdoor apparel maker Quiksilver plunging 40...
...Quiksilver has been losing money while rival Rip Curl’s interest in going public – it hired advisers last September – seems to have gone quiet....
...Quiksilver, apparel producer, rose sharply after announcing third-quarter figures that beat expectations....
...It also operates online retail sites on behalf of offline stores such as Tsum, a high-end retailer, and Quiksilver, a surfing brand....
...Possible targets could include Quiksilver, the California-based maker of clothing for skateboarders and surfers....
...Quiksilver, another clothing retailer, fell 17.5 per cent to $2.36 after it forecast a surprise fourth-quarter loss per share due to higher interest charges....
...Adidas ticked 4.8 per cent higher to €30.08 amid talk it was eyeing surfwear maker Quiksilver, which has a market capitalisation of about $270m....
...But Billabong’s capital position was not remotely strained, certainly relative to highly leveraged peers such as Quiksilver....
...After months of speculation, Quiksilver is taking over Rossignol, the world's largest ski maker....
...There was also soul-searching over the fate of Rossignol, France’s famous ski manufacturer which was bought in March by Quiksilver of the US....
...Bernard Mariette, Quiksilver's French boss and friend of the Boix-Vives family, wants to expand his surfing clothes company to the slippery slopes of winter sports....
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