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  • Quiksilver Inc receives binding offer for Rossignol sale..
    27 August, 2008 : - -Huntington Beach, Calif.--Quiksilver, Inc. (NYSE:ZQK - News) today announced that it has received a binding offer for the acquisition of 100% of the Rossignol Group. The offer is made by Chartreuse & Mont Blanc, headed by Bruno Cercley, a former CEO of Rossignol. Chartreuse & Mont Blanc is majority owned by Macquarie Group (ASX:MQG - News) and supported by a non-voting minority interest by Jarden Corporation (NYSE:JAH - News).

  • Lee Ann Curren claims the ASP Grade-2 Rip Curl Pro Jr
    27 August, 2008 : - - Seignosse, France -- Lee Ann Curren (Biarritz, FRA), 19, claimed the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Grade-2 Rip Curl Pro Junior Mademoiselle today at Les Bourdaines in Seignosse. Curren, who defeated Justine Dupont (FRA), Pauline Ado (FRA) and Marie Dejean (FRA) in a 100% French final, took the best out of the good hollow four foot (1.2 meter) waves in the seventh event of the season.

  • Great surf predicted for Rip Curl Pro Mademoiselle start
    27 August, 2008 : - - Hossegor, France -- The Rip Curl Pro Mademoiselle, event No. 3 of 8 on the 2008 ASP Women?s World Tour, begins its waiting period tomorrow and projected swell reports are calling for clean conditions with surf in the four-to-six foot (1 metre) range for the ASP Top 17 to sink their rails into.

  • Volcom Stone's Mulletfish goes off on Crozon Peninsula
    27 August, 2008 : - - For the second Mullet Fish surf series, we are back on the beautiful peninsula of Crozon in Brittany, about 11 hours drive from our offices in Anglet considering summer traffic...

  • SurfAid Int. finishes water projects for Nias communities
    27 August, 2008 : - - SurfAid International is delivering clean water to Nias communities - some for the first time - after completing 99 water projects on the island which was devastated by the March 2005 earthquake. The massive earthquake, measuring 8.7 on the Richter scale, destroyed buildings and roads and killed more than 1,000 people on Nias, which lies 125km off Indonesia?s North Sumatran Coast.


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