{"id":254,"date":"2007-06-20T12:45:12","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T19:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=254"},"modified":"2007-06-20T20:41:42","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T03:41:42","slug":"spy-optic-under-the-microscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"Spy Optic Under the Microscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spyoptic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spy Optic<\/a><\/strong> is a $42.4 million Carlsbad-based action sports business which is publicly traded under the name <strong>Orange 21<\/strong>. <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twsbiz.com\/twbiz\/features\/article\/0,21214,1635299,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">TransWorld Business<\/a><\/em><\/strong><strong> magazine&#8217;s Jeff Harbaugh<\/strong> gives the Orange 21 quarterly report the once over. Here are some of the details:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Until recently, it&#8217;s been kind of a tough road for Spy Optics (publicly traded under the corporate name of Orange 21). Though sales grew from $22.3 million in 2002 to $42.4 million in 2006, profits of $911,000, $500,000, and $807,000 in 2002 through 2004 gave way to losses of $1.7 and $7.3 million respectively in 2005 and 2006. Gross profit, at 51 percent in 2002, had fallen to 41 percent in 2006.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the rest of the behind-the-business details, follow the link.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twsbiz.com\/twbiz\/features\/article\/0,21214,1635299,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">TransWorld Business<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spy Optic is a $42.4 million Carlsbad-based action sports business which is publicly traded under the name Orange 21. TransWorld Business magazine&#8217;s Jeff Harbaugh gives the Orange 21 quarterly report the once over. Here are some of the details: Until recently, it&#8217;s been kind of a tough road for Spy Optics (publicly traded under the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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\/254"}],"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=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}