Clothing Company Definitions — United States clothing company definitions from Apparel Search
This index lists United States clothing company definitions for companies whose names begin with the letter Q. The company listed here is Quiksilver, the surfwear and boardriding company based in Huntington Beach, California, and each name links to a full definition describing the company, its products and its history.
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Learn more about fashion companies in the fashion company profile area.The letter Q has a single company in this directory, and it is a substantial one. Quiksilver, based in Huntington Beach, California, is described as one of the world's largest manufacturers of surfwear and other boardriding equipment and clothing. Its history reaches back to Torquay, Australia, where Alan Green began working on prototypes for a new kind of board short at the Rip Curl factory in 1969, using aspects of wetsuit technology such as snaps and Velcro flies. Quiksilver boardshorts made their first appearance in Australian surf shops in 1970, United States manufacturing followed, and in 1976 Jeff Hackman and Bob McKnight teamed up to start Quiksilver USA in Newport Beach, at first selling boardshorts out of the back of a green VW bus.
A single-entry letter is not a gap in the directory; it reflects how few American clothing companies trade under a Q name. The entry that does sit here carries more history than most full letters, including sponsored riders such as Rabbit Bartholomew, who won a world title, the Echo Beach boardshorts of the period, the Roxy women's brand, and the company's 2015 Chapter 11 restructuring in the United States, in which Quiksilver planned to hand control to lender Oaktree Capital Management with support from 73 percent of its United States secured noteholders, while foreign subsidiaries were unaffected. That range, from a VW bus to a court-supervised reorganization, is the full arc of a surf industry pioneer.
The linked Quiksilver definition follows the standard pattern, stating what the company makes, where it is based, how it began and the events that shaped it, and it includes a year-by-year history running backwards from 2015 to 1969. Surf clothing has its own vocabulary, boardshorts, boardriding and surfwear among them, and the clothing definitions glossary explains those product terms. For a fuller company picture, pair the definition with the Quiksilver profile in the Apparel Search names directory. Readers working alphabetically should also check the neighbouring letters, because surf and skate companies are spread across them: RVCA and other action-sports labels sit under R, and Spyder and Sean John under S, each with definitions of their own.
The Q list covers Quiksilver. The name links to that company's definition.
Each definition describes the company itself: what it makes or sells, when and where it was founded, the brands and lines it owns, and the notable events in its history, in a short standardised profile format.
Use the United States clothing company definition directory to reach the index page for every letter from A to Z. Fuller company profiles are also available in the Apparel Search fashion company profiles in the names directory.