Back in December, Quiksilver released its annual and quarterly earnings and held a conference call. I did the best analysis I could, but bitched and moaned because I didn’t have the complete 10K or the balance sheet. You can see that analysis here. Last week, the company issued its 10K. I’m not going to redo the analysis I did, but there’s a few pieces of interesting additional information I thought you’d want to More…
Archive for January, 2012
Interesting Stuff from Quiksilver’s 10K Annual Report
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012It’s Tradeshow’s Season. I Started with Agenda, But I’m also Thinking About SIA.
Friday, January 13th, 2012Among the things I liked at Agenda, the one I liked the most was Shmooza Palooza, the jobs fair jointly sponsored by Agenda and Malakye.com. 500 people preregistered for it and it was busy every time I looked in. It’s great to sell a few more T-shirts or another snowboard, but it’s even better to help somebody put food on the table. The guy who probably didn’t get a job at More…
Follow-up on my Last Article; the Nau Example
Monday, January 9th, 2012My last article, “Do Retailers Really Need to Carry All That Inventory?” garnered quite a response. One of those responses was a link to an article about a brand called Nau. Their web site is here. The link to the article is here. The article was written back in 2007 and the brand is still around and, judging from the list of stores where they are available, successful. Here’s how the article starts: More…
