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Buy Local: Help Pump New Zealand’s Surf Industry

Derek MorrisonMay 28, 2020

by Derek MorrisonMay 28, 20200

The Covid-19 health crisis has taught New Zealanders a lot of things, but nothing has become clearer: we need to support local surf businesses. By supporting them we pump the vascular system of our very own New Zealand surf industry. And that reaches deep into the heart of our surf......

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Sustainability And Innovation Key Drivers At Seventhwave Wetsuits

Derek MorrisonOctober 10, 2019October 11, 2019

by Derek MorrisonOctober 10, 2019October 11, 20190

Lying on a table in Seventhwave’s Ferrymead factory in Christchurch is a fluffy orange wetsuit that doesn’t look anything like the wetsuit manufacturer’s flagship Yamamoto suits. Sarah smiles, she lifts the wetsuit up and explains the prototype to me. “I haven’t surfed in this one yet,” she admits with a......

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Kathmandu Buys Rip Curl For $368 Million

Derek MorrisonOctober 2, 2019November 27, 2019

by Derek MorrisonOctober 2, 2019November 27, 20190

New Zealand company Kathmandu yesterday entered into a binding agreement to acquire 100 percent of the Rip Curl Group Pty Limited for NZ$368 million. The deal is expected to be completed by the end of 2019. The sale should come as no surprise, Rip Curl’s founders, Brian Singer and Douglas......

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A Daily Practice: The Philosophy Driving Sadhana Surfboards

Derek MorrisonSeptember 24, 2019September 25, 2019

by Derek MorrisonSeptember 24, 2019September 25, 20190

I knew it was Jay standing there in the parking lot. It wasn’t because he wore the hair of a rocker, or that he stood in dusty jeans with a plain, unbranded mushroom-coloured jersey. It was the fine gradient of foam dust on his fingers that gave him away. Since......

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