Huntington Beach-based Boardriders Inc.’s bid to acquire longtime rival Billabong was completed this week, creating one powerhouse surf company that executives hope will stimulate a new wave of ...

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 ...

Bronze and iron brought ancient people out of the Stone Age. Steel connected our coastlines with railroad tracks. Silicon semiconductors built computers, which spread information like no other time in ...

Writer Karen Knowlton wrote an essay on Medium calling out Billabong for an 'insulting' ad. The ad was originally on Billabong's landing page and seemed to objectify women's bodies. A screenshot of ...

Billabong, one of the world’s best-known surf brands and a home-grown business success story, is on its deathbed. In August the company wrote down the value of both its famous brands to zero, along ...

What’s so great about the year 2020? Options, baby. Pick any song on Earth at the click of a button. Stream and binge any show you want. Listen to a podcast and become an armchair expert. And ...

Julie Sarinana collaborates with Billabong for Billabong x Sincerely Jules collection, Photo Credit: Jimmy and Jesse Marble For fashion lovers, Julie Sarinana, a.k.a Sincerely Jules, is considered one ...

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, ...

Australian surf brand Billabong on Thursday announced the appointment of Jim Howell as chief financial officer, effective June 12. He will succeed Peter Myers, who has served in the role since January ...

Billabong International Limited is an Australian company that started out producing surfing shorts in 1973 and has expanded its lines to include other surfing-oriented apparel, accessories and eyewear ...

The splashy neon logos and beachy vibe of brands Billabong and Quiksilver ruled the U.S. fashion scene in the 1990s and early 2000s, when teens across the country wanted to channel surfer culture. In ...