Malakye jobs: Quiksilver Pro New York, Stussy, many more

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Malakye lists latest action sports jobs...  

Surfersvillage Global Surf News , 26 July, 2011 : - - Malakye job round up this month includes positions at Quiksilver Pro New York, Smith Sport Optics, Stussy, Matix Clothing, LRG, Rip Curl as well as many other action sports companies...

SmartWool , located in Steamboat Springs, Colo., is looking for a SmartWool Demand Planner with 5+ years of experience.

Easton-Bell Sports , located in Scotts Valley, Calif., is looking for a Senior Mechanical Engineer (Lacrosse) with 9+ years of experience.

A Confidential Company, located in Orange County, Calif., is looking for a Maintenance Supervisor with 6+ years of experience.

A Confidential Company, located in Costa Mesa, Calif., is looking for a Creative Communications Manager with 6+ years of experience.

Pure Distribution , located in Oceanside, Calif., is looking for a Sales Associate / Blueprint -Orion-Tracker trucks with 5+ years of experience.
BB Dakota, located in Costa Mesa, Calif., is looking for an Assistant Designer / Merchandiser with 3+ years of experience.

Vans , located in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., have "4"NEW Openings: Vans Assistant Manager Vans Store Manager Vans Floor Supervisor Vans Stockroom Supervisor

A Confidential Company, located in Canada (Western Provinces), is looking for a Sales Executive with 3+ years of experience.

SmartWoo l, located in Steamboat Springs, Colo., is looking for a SmartWool Director of Sales (United States) with 10+ years of experience.

The Timberland Company , located in Stratham, NH, is looking for a Senior Manager (Field Marketing) with 8+ years of experience.

CCS , located in Tukwilla, Olympia, Carlsbad, Ventura, Deptford, Syracuse, is looking for Retail Management (New Locations) with 2+ years of experience.

DAKINE , located in Hood River, Ore., has "2" NEW Openings: Mountain Bike Apparel Product Manager  Senior Graphic Designer

Pearl Izumi , located in Louisville, Colo., is looking for a Product Developer I with 2+ years of experience.

GMPC , located in CA & NY, is looking for an Accessory Designer with 2+ years of experience.

LRG Clothing Co-Founder Jonas Bevacqua Found Dead | News One

LOS ANGELES — Jonas Bevacqua, who co-founded the popular street clothing brand LRG in 1999 and presided over its rapid rise as a major fashion force among young people, was found dead Tuesday. He was 34.

Orange County sheriff’s officials said Bevacqua’s body was found in his Laguna Beach home.

“There were no obvious signs of the cause of death,” sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino told The Associated Press. He added that the county coroner would conduct an autopsy Wednesday.

Calls to LRG’s headquarters in Irvine rang unanswered.

According to the company’s Facebook page, Bevacqua and his business partner, Robert Wright, founded Lifted Research Group, known to patrons as LRG, with start-up capital raised in part from friends of Bevacqua’s adoptive father.

Bevacqua had dropped out of college and moved back home with his parents when he met Wright while working as a DJ at Southern California clubs. The two sketched out some of their earliest fashion ideas in his bedroom.

Deeply influenced by Southern California’s skateboard, surfing and hip hop culture, he said he and Wright began making clothes that reflected their interests but that no one else seemed to be providing.

“I grew up in a pretty unique environment and was exposed to a lot of different things,” he said in a 2009 interview with the Orange County Register. “I didn’t feel there was a clothing company to bridge the gap between all these different things that we were into – that spoke for that melting pot of what was going on. That’s what LRG was all about.”

By 2006, LRG had annual sales of $150 million and was named by Entrepreneur magazine as No. 5 on its list of that year’s 500 fastest growing companies. Among its popular clothing lines are Luxirie, which targets 18- to 30-year-old women, offering clothing with Western and military themes, and items such as crystal-covered jeans.

Initially a clothing company, LRG has since branched out to include sales of electronic devices, music and other items. It described itself as a “creative lifestyle” company that attempts to reflect its founders’ interests, not only in fashion but also environmental causes and other activities.

“The company is also involved in the promotion of underground recording artists and sponsors a skateboarding team,” according to its website.

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