{"id":2487,"date":"2008-05-07T09:45:30","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T16:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2008-05-27T16:55:29","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T23:55:29","slug":"tsubo-sold-for-6-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2487","title":{"rendered":"Tsubo Sold For $6 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/phpthumbphp.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" alt=\"phpThumb.php.jpeg\" style=\"float:right;\" \/>Carlsbad-based &#8220;eco-friendly&#8221; fashion footwear company <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tsubo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tsubo<\/a><\/strong> was just purchased by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deckers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deckers Outdoor Corporation<\/a><\/strong> for $6 million according to a report on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.just-style.com\/article.aspx?id=100692\" target=\"_blank\">Just-Style.com<\/a><\/strong> .<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Angel Martinez, Deckers president and chief executive officer, said the acquisition &#8220;represents an ideal complement to our existing portfolio of lifestyle brands,&#8221; which includes Teva, Simple and Ugg.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tsubo sales for 2007 were reportedly around $10 million, so it looks like Deckers is getting a pretty good deal. Sometimes just buying the company is easier than luring the designers away.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.just-style.com\/article.aspx?id=100692\" target=\"_blank\">Just-Style.com<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.just-style.com\/factsheet.aspx?id=21\" onclick=\"onClick=setLyr(this,'factSheetHolder');showLayer('factSheetHolder');getFactsheetData('21');urchinTracker('\/factsheet\/Deckers');return false;\" style=\"color: #142969;\">Deckers<\/a> Outdoor Corporation has bought high-end casual footwear company Tsubo LLC for $6m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 9pt Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times; font-size: 16px;\">Angel Martinez, Deckers president and chief executive officer, said the acquisition &#8220;represents an ideal complement to our existing portfolio of lifestyle brands,&#8221; which includes Teva, Simple and Ugg.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 9pt Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times; font-size: 16px;\">Headquartered in Carlsbad, California, Tsubo makes products for men, women and children using a proprietary bubble outsole design and eco-friendly materials to achieve a distinct look and feel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 9pt Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; font-size: 10pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times; font-size: 16px;\">For the year ended 31 December 2007, Tsubo reported sales of around $10m.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}