Posts Tagged ‘BRA’

The BRA/IASC Roundtable at ASR

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

As they do every ASR, IASC and BRA hosted a round table meeting by invitation only to discuss issues of mutual interest and, as usual, I attended. The meeting was well attended and the exchange lively.  The first issue on the table was Manufacturers’ Suggested Retail Pricing (MSRP) and Minimum Advertised Pricing (MAP). I’ll assume you know what those things are. People in the room were generally in favor of both and I’d More…

“Say, That Sounds Like a Good Idea!” The New Board Retailers’ Association

Monday, June 23rd, 2003

Like the web site (www.boardretailers.org) says, the idea for the Board Retailers’ Association (BRA?) goes back to the mid eighties and has been discussed annually. But for the past year, Roy Turner, the owner of Surf City Surf Shop in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, and Mike Duncan of Sage Corporation, a web applications firm with roots in action sports, have been making it happen. Roy’s been in the surf industry for 25 More…