Quiksilver - Fashion Company Profile
Quiksilver is the surf brand founded in Torquay, Australia in 1969 by Alan Green and John Law - the boardriding label built on a better boardshort, headquartered in Huntington Beach, California, and since September 1, 2023 a brand of Authentic Brands Group alongside Roxy, Billabong and DC Shoes.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- Operating - a surf and boardsports brand owned by Authentic Brands Group, sold worldwide through licensees, the brand website and surf and skate retailers; its former U.S. store operator closed its stores in 2025, but the brand itself continues
- Type
- Private - a brand of Authentic Brands Group, which acquired Boardriders, Inc. on September 1, 2023; before that the business traded as the public Quiksilver, Inc. and then as the private Boardriders, Inc. under Oaktree Capital Management
- Headquarters
- Huntington Beach, California, United States
- Founded
- 1969, in Torquay, Victoria, Australia, by Alan Green and John Law
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Company Profile
Current products are on the Quiksilver website, linked above; the shop box covers Quiksilver products sold through Amazon and eBay. The company's shape has changed twice since the detailed record on the history page was written, and both changes matter for reading store headlines correctly. Quiksilver, Inc. emerged from its 2015 Chapter 11 reorganization in early 2016 under Oaktree Capital Management, renamed itself Boardriders, Inc. in March 2017, and acquired Billabong in 2018; then, on September 1, 2023, Authentic Brands Group closed its acquisition of Boardriders and took ownership of the brands, which it runs through regional licensees rather than through one operating company. In February 2025 the North American retail licensee, Liberated Brands, filed for bankruptcy and closed all 122 of its U.S. and Canadian stores, Quiksilver and Roxy among them - that was the store operator ending, not the brand: Authentic reassigned the North American licenses, men's to O5 Apparel and women's to Velocity Global Brands, and Quiksilver products continue through the brand website, licensees and surf and skate retailers worldwide.
The headline record comes first here, with its date attached. On September 9, 2015, Quiksilver's U.S. operation launched a pre-arranged Chapter 11 restructuring with support of 73% of U.S. secured noteholders; foreign subsidiaries were unaffected by the filing. Quiksilver Inc. said it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for its U.S. units and planned to hand control over to lender Oaktree Capital Management LP. The filing is careful, and this profile is equally careful, to explain the term: Chapter 11 is different from Chapter 13 - this chapter generally provides for reorganization, usually involving a corporation or partnership, and a Chapter 11 debtor usually proposes a plan of reorganization to keep its business alive and pay creditors over time. Read the 2015 note as a reorganization record, not as an ending.
Quiksilver History
The earlier record for this company - its history, past brand line-ups, figures and photographs from the periods described - is kept on a separate page for historical reference.
Quiksilver History & Historical Profile →Common Questions
Who owns Quiksilver now?
Authentic Brands Group, the private New York brand company. It closed its acquisition of Boardriders, Inc. - the company formerly called Quiksilver, Inc. - on September 1, 2023, taking the Quiksilver, Roxy, Billabong, RVCA, DC Shoes and Element brands, which are run through regional licensees.
Did Quiksilver go out of business in 2025?
No. What ended in 2025 was its former North American store operator: Liberated Brands filed for bankruptcy in February 2025 and closed all 122 of its stores, including Quiksilver and Roxy locations. The Quiksilver brand continued under Authentic Brands Group, with its North American licenses reassigned to new operators.
When and where was Quiksilver founded?
In 1969, in Torquay, Victoria, Australia, by Alan Green and John Law. Green's own account of designing the first boardshorts there at the start of the last summer of the 1960s is kept in full on the history page.
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