{"id":3243,"date":"2008-09-12T09:46:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T16:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3243"},"modified":"2008-09-12T10:34:41","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T17:34:41","slug":"floundering-ashworth-looks-for-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=3243","title":{"rendered":"Floundering Ashworth Looks For Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/golf280.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/golf280.jpg','popup','width=280,height=190,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/golf280-tm.jpg\" height=\"135\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Golf280\" \/><\/a>Things just aren&#8217;t looking too sweet at <em>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s<\/em> once booming golf clothing manufacturer <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashworthinc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ashworth Golf Company<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week the company <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/portal\/site\/google\/?ndmViewId=news_view&amp;newsId=20080909006491&amp;newsLang=en\" target=\"_blank\">posted a lost of $9.6 million loss<\/a><\/strong> for the last quarter up nearly double from the same period last year, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/business\/20080911-9999-1b11ashworth.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. Now the company may be looking for a buyer.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Carlsbad firm hired <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurtsalmon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kurt Salmon Associates<\/a><\/strong> to help it explore strategic alternatives. The investment bank worked with Ashworth rival <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cutterbuck.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cutter &#38; Buck<\/a><\/strong>, which sold last year to Swiss clothing maker <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwg.se\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Wave Group<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Guess this is what happens when new management moves in every couple months.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/business\/20080911-9999-1b11ashworth.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things just aren&#8217;t looking too sweet at Carlsbadistan&#8217;s once booming golf clothing manufacturer Ashworth Golf Company. Earlier this week the company posted a lost of $9.6 million loss for the last quarter up nearly double from the same period last year, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune. Now the company may be [&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":[8,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243"}],"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=3243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}