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Ron Jon Surf Shop is a surfer-style retail store chain founded in 1959 in Ship Bottom, New Jersey by Ron DiMenna. [1] The store specializes in surfing and bodyboarding equipment, and their Cocoa Beach, Florida, store is currently the largest surf shop in the world. [2] Michele Goodwin is the current president. [3] Ron Jon Surf Shop has 13 ...
Kona Bikes is a bicycle company based in the Pacific Northwest.The company was founded in 1988 by Dan Gerhard, Jacob Heilbron and Jimbo Holmstrom in Vancouver, BC. Their world headquarters are in Ferndale, Washington, with Canadian distribution offices in Vancouver, and European distribution offices in Monaco.
By the end of the decade he and the business moved to Santa Cruz, [2] where he opened his second store in 1959. [3] Jack O'Neill was one of the originators of the use of neoprene for wetsuits. [2] [3] [4] O'Neill was a pioneering retailer of surfwear [3] and also sells lifestyle apparel and snow sports-related apparel.
Quiksilver is an Australian brand of surf-inspired apparel and accessories that was founded in 1969 in Torquay, Victoria, but is now based in Huntington Beach, California.It is one of the world's largest brands of surfwear and boardsport-related equipment. [3]
The Ocean Pacific label was later sold to Don Hansen of Hansen Surf Shop. In 1972, Jim Jenks of San Diego wanted to create clothing and sportswear that met the demands of surfers in and out of the surf. He received the name from his then employer, Don Hansen, and the Ocean Pacific apparel line was created. [1]
The Katins kept making their surf trunks, selling them from the Surfside store and through a hemisphere-wide network of surf shop dealers. From the 1960s through the 1970s, many top surfers were loyal customers [3] and appeared in surf magazine ads wearing them. Walter Katin died in 1967, and Nancy continued to run the shop and the business in ...
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