Hints and tips:
...It’s either from the cover of Dick Dale’s LP King of the Surf Guitar or the side of the Mystery Machine in Scooby-Doo. Why? Why? I’m a peculiarly sensitive soul....
...French colonial-style station built for the Dakar-Niger Railway or the Mosquée de la Divinité with its smooth, icing-sugar whites, candy-coloured windows and minarets backed by golden beach and rolling surf...
...“In the 1990s these brands were seen as a core part of youth surf culture, which tended to have an anti-establishment feel....
...There were three other guitar versions of note in the 1960s — by the surf-rocky Ventures, the fuzzier Davie Allan and The Arrows, and those bad-acid growlers the Edgar Broughton Band....
...The green-energy panic has led to some interesting pieces of wreckage floating on to the surf-pounded beach....
...They have bought Australia’s biggest poultry producer Inghams Enterprises, its iconic surf retailer Billabong and most recently Peters Ice Cream – one of its oldest consumer brands....
...Billabong has been thrust back into the takeover spotlight after the head of its North American business stepped aside to start work on a potential bid for the struggling Australian surf, skate and snow...
...Billabong, which owns the Element, Von Zipper, Honolua Surf Company, Kustom, Palmers Surf brands, announced plans to close up to a fifth of its 670 stores and cut around 400 jobs earlier this month....
...Meanwhile, Billabong, the surf and sportswear group, warned markets late last year of poor sales in Europe and Australia. Harvey Norman, the retailer, has also seen shares slump on slowing sales....
...Bridgepoint, which also owns Pret A Manger and surf retailer Fat Face, has a penchant for retail niches....
...As to where these returns come from, Mr Azlen suggests behavioural factors, driven by the opposing emotions of fear and greed, create the trends these funds can surf....
...managers, even entire mutual fund groups use dubious weight-of-money strategies, subvert the market by goosing the marks of existing positions – monthly, quarterly, annually, while corporations continue to surf...
...In memoriam, SURF....
...Fat Face, the ski- and surf-wear fashion chain bought by Bridgepoint in March for £360m, has seen the bank debt issued to fund the deal slide to about 82 per cent of its initial value....
...Penguins do not guarantee success, however: Sony Pictures failed to score with Surf’s Up, a film about surfing penguins....
...As his mates head offstage, Jenner, a puppy in the body of a college basketball star, is on his third crowd-surf....
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