Word: skatewear
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Dates: during 1999-1999
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Here in Velcro Valley, as this ragged patch of the industrial landscape is known, a surfwear or skatewear company that catches the attention of style leaders--the best skaters, surfers or snowboarders in any coastal clique--can in a year swell from $5 million in annual sales to $100 million...
...successful in this market, a company must first be considered core, a catch-all term for unbridled living of the extreme- sports go-for-it ethos. "To be perceived as core is alternative-marketing gold," says James Palczynski, vice president and analyst at Needham & Co. If you are selling skatewear, then you had better be a skate rat, and your company had better sponsor a team of top skateboarders. But core is more than an aggressive, participatory attitude. It's also a vibe, a quasi-mystical, anti-Establishment subtext that has to permeate a firm and come across in marketing...
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