Last week, PPR, a French luxury retail group, announced that it had acquired Volcom Inc. for $608 million. And thus a core action sports apparel brand founded in 1991 with a slogan "youth against ...

Since its inception in the early 1990s, Volcom has provided skating, surfing and snowboarding apparel and accessories as lifestyle products behind the slogan "Youth Against Establishment." Fun, bold, ...

It was the last night of its annual conference, and the Tribe, as the surf industry calls itself, was stoked. Clothing makers, sales directors, marketing experts and shop owners gathered on the beach ...

With great sadness, I've set aside my glossary of skateboarding terms. Now that France's conglomerate PPR has made a $608 million bid for Volcom (Nasdaq: VLCM), I may never again have an excuse to ...

New Mexican skaters can get one last run in before Volcom closes its doors. Volcom’s parent company, Liberated Brands, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this month — resulting in the liquidation ...

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Is a Billabong an animal, vegetable or mineral? Just what does RVCA mean? And what the heck goes on in Hollister, California? We did an extremely unscientific survey over a nine-week period and asked ...

Remy Stratton has been steering the ship of Volcom’s skate program for over three decades, and now he’s dropping one final collection to celebrate. The crew at Volcom knew it was the perfect time to ...

It started with selling wastebaskets. When Volcom Inc. Chief Executive Richard Woolcott was about 7 or 8, he started to really get into skateboarding and surfing. He stumbled across a skateboard ...

Liberated Brands filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection over the weekend and is looking to shutter its U.S. retail stores where it sold brands like Quiksilver, Billabong and Volcom. The company ...

The surf wasn’t the only thing that was up for Volcom Inc. on Thursday. Shares of the Costa Mesa youth apparel maker soared 41% in first-day trading, the second-best debut this year. Volcom shares ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michelle Bruton covers action sports and the Olympics and Paralympics. Action sports mainstay Volcom has never signed a BMX rider, ...