Boardriders Xbf Ecommerce (2024)

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What brands do Boardriders own? ›

Boardriders, Inc. currently owns these brands: Quiksilver, Roxy, DC Shoes, Billabong, Element, Von Zipper, RVCA, and XCEL.

Today Quiksilver has over 600 stores worldwide, sells surfwear, boardsports equipment, accessories and apparel.

“Authentic Brands Group is pleased to confirm the completion of its purchase of world-renowned super brands Quiksilver, Billabong, Roxy, RVCA, DC Shoes, Element, VonZipper, Honolua, and Boardriders,” Authentic said in a statement.

Boardriders are dreamers. They dream of things that never were and make them happen. Boardriders is a leading action sports and lifestyle company that designs, produces and distributes branded apparel, footwear and accessories for boardriders around the world.

Authentic Brands Group has closed on its acquisition of lifestyle and beachwear group Boardriders in a deal that was reportedly in excess of 1.25 billion dollars.

The word comes from the sense of quick that means "alive;" the Latin root is argentum vivum, which is literally "living silver." Definitions of quicksilver. a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures.

The Old English word for mercury was cwicseolfor, a combination of cwic, meaning "alive" or "moving," and seolfor, meaning "silver." The Modern English quicksilver comes from the Old English cwicseolfor.

Quiksilver

Billabong / Parent organization

In April 2023, Authentic Brands Group made a binding offer to acquire Boardriders, Inc. from Oaktree Capital Management for US$1.25 billion. Boardriders includes the Quiksilver, Billabong, Roxy, RVCA, DC Shoes, Element, Von Zipper and Honolua brands. The takeover was finalized in September 2023.

Who just bought out Roxy? ›

Authentic acquired Roxy as part of its takeover of lifestyle group Boardriders earlier this year, snapping up the water sports brand alongside an array of similar labels.

Is Boardriders a private or public company? Boardriders is a Private company.

Boardriders does not report financials, so the last report we have of company revenue was a Moody's report, which stated Boardriders' revenue totaled $1.7 billion for the 12 months ended Jan. 31, 2022.

PUBLISHED: September 6, 2023 at 10:54 a.m. | UPDATED: September 6, 2023 at 10:59 a.m. A sale of some of the surf industry's largest brands has been finalized, putting Quiksilver, Billabong, Roxy, RVCA and a handful of other action-sports brands under ownership of New York-based Authentic Brands Group.

Authentic Brands Group

Authentic Brands Group LLC

Boardriders includes the Quiksilver, Billabong, Roxy, RVCA, DC Shoes, Element, Von Zipper and Honolua brands.

The Boardriders acquisition closed earlier this month, giving Authentic ownership of Quiksilver, Billabong, Roxy, RVCA, Honolua and Boardriders, among other brands.

RVCA was founded in 1999 by Pat Tenore and Conan Hayes, a professional surfer from Hawaii. Billabong purchased RVCA in July 2010, and then Boardriders acquired Billabong in 2018, taking ownership of RVCA, Element, Von Zipper, and XCEL.

That name sound familiar? Authentic Brands Group bought Volcom in 2019. ABG — along with Blue Star Alliance — were rumored to be pursuing a Boardriders acquisition for the past several months.