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The new Active Ride Shop store in Bakersfiled - Photo courtesy of Active

Active owner Tengram raises $320 million

Tengram Capital Partners, the private equity firm that invested in Active Ride Shop, Sequential Brands Group, Robert Graham…

News June 17, 2015
Kip Arnette - Photo courtesy of Electric

Kip Arnette retires from Electric

Electric is announcing today that Kip Arnette, Electric Co-Founder, is retiring after 15 years with the brand.

News June 16, 2015
Updated: Moody's downgrades

Updated: Moody's downgrades Quiksilver credit rating

Updated with comments from CEO Pierre Agnes. Credit rating agency Moody’s downgraded Quiksilver yesterday following the company’s second…

News June 11, 2015
Photo courtesy of Zumiez

Zumiez CEO on snowboarding, Europe and Canada plans, and the evolution of Zumiez

Zumiez CEO Rick Brooks provided some interesting insights about Zumiez’s business at the William Blair investors conference Tuesday.

Executive Edition June 9, 2015
Ted Li - SES file photo

Quiksilver hires new Americas sales leader

Quiksilver has hired a new SVP of Sales for Quiksilver Americas – Ted Li from Oakley.

News June 8, 2015
Quiksilver stock takes big

Quiksilver stock takes big hit, new team outlines improvement plans

Quiksilver's stock price is down 37% in trading this morning after its earnings release. We listened to the…

Executive Edition June 8, 2015
SES file photo

Spring goods sell slowly at Zumiez

Details about Zumiez's results for Q1 and the worrisome sales trends at the start of Q2 from the…

Executive Edition June 4, 2015
Sport Chalet CEO Craig Levra with team members at the downtown LA store - SES file photo

Changes come to Sport Chalet post acquisition

SES has learned that the new owners of large industry customer Sport Chalet are making some big changes…

Executive Edition May 27, 2015
Bob McKnight during the speech Wednesday night - Photo by SES

Bob McKnight's full Surf Summit speech

Bob McKnight talked about many different subjects during his keynote, and we have the full speech here, and…

Executive Edition May 15, 2015
Marc Berardi and Chris Bernard have new roles at Burton - SES file photo

Burton moves back to independent sales model in West

Burton is moving back to an independent sales force model in the West a year after bringing that…

News May 10, 2015
A Zumiez store in Waikiki - SES file photo

Zumiez's April same-store sales decline

A look at how different categories performed at Zumiez in April, plus some color on Blue Tomato.

News May 6, 2015
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