Surf brand Billabong may have paddled too far into the impact zone just as the 2008 financial tsunami hit. The surf, skate and skiwear brand has reported its first global loss since 2001—US$287 ...

The surf brand landscape, like the ocean it revolves around, is an ever-changing arena. And recently, a surge whipped through the OG surf brand lineup, knocking many offboard and astray. Authentic ...

Billabong International Inc., a 40-year-old Australian surfwear company, reported its most dismal earnings ever as it wrote down the value of its namesake brand to zero. For the fiscal year ended June ...

Forty years ago, when Gordon Merchant founded surf apparel brand Billabong at his kitchen table overlooking Australia's Burleigh Point, one of the world's top surf spots, he could scarcely have ...

Orange County surfwear industry insider Paul Naude and private equity firm Sycamore Partners are one step closer to taking over Billabong International Ltd. The Gold Coast, Australia-based company ...

What's in a name? For Billabong, the answer is nothing. Billabong International Ltd. wrote down the carrying value of the Billabong brand, born four decades ago in Burleigh Heads, an Australian suburb ...

The side-by-side photos featured what Knowlton called a male “subject” surfing waves and a female “object” posed seductively in a bikini on the beach. “Man as subject, shredding waves. Woman as object ...

The surfwear retailer ­revealed it also plans to open new branded stores in key locations to recapture its core surfing market. Chairman Ian Pollard said Billabong was reviewing smaller brands, ...

VF Corp., the world’s largest apparel maker, dropped its pursuit of Billabong International Ltd.’s surf brand and stores because the Australian company wanted more than VF thought it was worth. VF ...

Australian surfwear maker Billabong plunged in Sydney trading after the company posted a tremendous annual loss that totals more than three times its market value. The company’s staggering full-year ...

Huntington Beach-based Billabong announced an Earth Day collaboration with Dr. Seuss, adding playful designs from the children author’s collection to its beachwear. The partnership to celebrate the ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Forty years ago, when Gordon Merchant founded surf apparel brand Billabong at his kitchen table overlooking Australia’s Burleigh Point, ...