Billabong receives take over proposal from Boardriders Inc
On matters of Billabong they just released Iggy Pop board shorts. WTF? Well at least they didn't try to do an Iggy Pop t shirt line
I think they did.
Just as " iconic " as the boardies .
I suppose that thousands of crew walked around in Ramones shirts due to their social cache despite thinking they were a Ukrainian basketball team.
What's the difference ?
It'll be clueless yet well intentioned mums filling up space under the Chrissy tree that buys them .
yeah i hope they do matching shirts and boardies........not.......little johnny running around in his iggy pop design cloths ...if only they knew.
Quiksilver changed its corporate name to Boardriders back in March 2017. Interestingly the financial backers / shareholders of both Billabong and Boardriders are Private Equity Group Oaktree Capital Management (who recapitalised Quiksilver out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2016. Does this mean we can eventually expect a merger of the brands to a new hybrid mega brand?
" Quikbong" anyone??!!
ASX Announcement 1 December 2018
INDICATIVE AND NON-BINDING PROPOSAL RECEIVED FROM
BOARDRIDERS, INC.
GOLD COAST, 1 December 2017: Billabong International Limited (Billabong) (ASX:
BBG) confirms that it has received a confidential, indicative and non-binding proposal
from Boardriders, Inc. (Boardriders) to acquire all of the shares in Billabong, other than
those already owned by Boardriders' related entities, at a price of $1.00 cash per share, via
a scheme of arrangement (the Indicative Proposal). Funds managed by Oaktree Capital
Management, L.P.(Oaktree) have a majority interest in Boardriders. Oaktree, through
controlled entities, already holds 19% of the shares in Billabong and is one of Billabong's
two senior lenders.