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Australian Mick Fanning captured pro surfing's biggest prize this weekend by winning the $105,000 Hurley Pro Trestles in Southern California. Fanning knocked off American Dane Reynolds in the finals at the Lower Trestles break in Huntington Beach and jumped from seventh to second place in the Association of Surfing Professionals rankings behind fellow Aussie Joel Parkinson. Fanning posted impressive single-wave scores of 9.70 and 9.67 to nail down the victory by a final score of 17.40 to...
CORONA, Calif., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AVT, Inc. (formerly Automated Vending Technologies), (Pink Sheets: AVTC) today announced that its automated retailing solutions are powering a highly chic, trendy partnership between Quiksilver (NYSE: ZQK) and the popular Standard Hotels. Quiksilver and The Standard Hotel complex are making "co-branded, board shorts and bikinis available pool side through AVT's automated retail product dispensing machines," said Freddie Bulusan, Director of...
BIARRITZ, France, July 13 /PRNewswire/ -- JBL and Roxy, a brand of Quiksilver Inc., today unveil a line of co-created portable audio products targeted at the youth market. Tailored specifically for the surf and mountain casual lifestyle, the series of multimedia products will start with the introduction of a headphone line to be launched at Roxy Jam, the surf, music and art festival in Biarritz that started on Friday July 10. The headphones featuring ear-buds (Reference 230),...
LOS ANGELES, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- 72andSunny (http://www.72andsunny.com/), the L.A.-based creative powerhouse for worldwide brands such as Nike, Discovery Channel, 2K Sports and Quiksilver, announced today that it has won the digital business of CKE Restaurants, Inc., parent company of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's hamburger chains. Carl's Jr. and Hardee's are known as much for their big, delicious, charbroiled burgers as they are for their marketing campaigns targeting their "young, hungry...
LOS ANGELES, June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- 72andSunny, the L.A.-based creative powerhouse for worldwide brands such as Nike, Discovery Channel, Xbox 360 and Quiksilver, launched a :30 TV commercial revealing Kobe Bryant as the cover athlete and spokesperson for the 2K Sports video game, NBA 2K10. The TV commercial, directed by and starring Spike Lee, aired immediately before tip-off of game one of the NBA finals on June 4. In the spot, Lee, a passionate hoops fan humorously depicts alternative...
Correcting spelling By Gail Schiller LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - When "Iconoclasts," a new series co-produced by the Sundance Channel and Grey Goose Entertainment, airs on the premium cable channel Thursday night, viewers will not see any Grey Goose vodka bottles or brand signage in the show. Nor will they witness featured guests Samuel L. Jackson and Bill Russell drinking Grey Goose or extolling its virtues despite the fact that the company's new production arm contributed the...
Correcting spelling By Gail Schiller LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - When "Iconoclasts," a new series co-produced by the Sundance Channel and Grey Goose Entertainment, airs on the premium cable channel Thursday night, viewers will not see any Grey Goose vodka bottles or brand signage in the show. Nor will they witness featured guests Samuel L. Jackson and Bill Russell drinking Grey Goose or extolling its virtues despite the fact that the company's new production arm contributed the...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California skateboarder Danny Way jumped over a 61-foot (18.6-meter) gap in the Great Wall of China, becoming the first person to clear the ancient fortification without motorized aid, his sponsor said. Way then went on to jump the wall three more times on Saturday, taking off from a specially built ramp at the nearly 3,000-year-old Ju Yong Guan Gate, and adding in 360-degree spins as spectators looked on. "I was aware of the dangers and my heart was pumping in my...
