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Kevin Elegance wants his recently created company, Extended Beach-based , to get the premiere store - both web in brick-and-mortar stores - of maximum sports gear, including skateboards, snowboards and surfboards, combined with clothing worn by their users.

His plan includes the outlet which may be between 20 and 25 stores using the finish of the year, combined with launching on the internet store using the finish within the month. He's also while buying up existing mother-and-pop stores along with a distribution company.

There's only one drawback: Quad X has zero assets that is a recently public company obtaining a comparatively small market capital. However we have an ambitious entrepreneur at its mind with past creating and building extreme sports companies.

" Sports was created and formulated particularly to complete acquisitions and mergers of existing companies," pointed out Elegance, adding he offers to develop new extreme sports names too. "We'll branch off into branded names, whether it's a new shoe company, a totally new watch company, a totally new skateboard company."

In March, Sports needed over Boraxx Technologies Corporation., a covering company whose stock was traded over-the-counter. The move permitted Quad X Sports to begin selling equity - furthermore to utilize stock to buy others - without employing an dpo.

With Quad X Sports exchanging at roughly $5 a share a few days ago, the company includes a market capital of just $12.5 million. But it's expecting a money infusion of $5 million incorporated in another offering, pointed out Brett Salter, chairman of Boca Raton, Fla.-based First Capital Corporation., well worth the cost bank that's dealing with Sports.

Regardless of the company's size, Salter pointed out he believes Elegance will get the backdrop to build up the company in a major extreme sports store.

The 32-year-old Elegance elevated in Hermosa Beach and possesses attempted skateboarding, surfing and motor mix since he was ten years old. (The only real factor he does not do is Rollerblade, since Rollerbladers have something in the competition with skateboarders.)

Almost all his buddies can also be connected with extreme sports, he pointed out, anf the husband has stored in close mention of the that community by living first in Hermosa Beach, as well as in Huntington Beach. That enables him to just accept pulse of skateboard sizes, snowboarders along with other extreme types.

Elegance founded, and possesses since offered off, numerous extreme sports companies, including Expired Snowboards, Sha Sha Fine Footwear and Diakka Sport Watches, the 3 which have been located in Costa Mesa. Elegance used the earnings to begin Sports. (He owns over half within the company's 2.5 million shares.)

"What Kevin does is capture a company where nobody is really competing," pointed out Piece Richardson, president of Huntington Beach-based Icon Exchanging Corporation., which bought Diakka Sport Watches from Elegance about six a few days ago.

Recently, Sports moved within the 4,000-square-foot space in Huntington Beach having a 10,000-square-foot office-and-warehouse space in Extended Beach. Its initial couple of stores Body in Extended Beach the other in Beach are expected to begin in the beginning of the summer time time.

The company is while making numerous acquisitions - including SK8 Shop.com, an internet-based sports store that expects about $5 million in sales this season, that is parent company, Costa Mesa-based VK Sports, a distributor of surfboards, snowboards along with other extreme sports gear.

Quad X Sports may also be in negotiations to purchase Spyder Surf-boards, a Hermosa Beach-based surf-board manufacturer, and two Closet Outdoors Supplies stores. "In 1999, perform between $11 million and $15 million (in revenues), based on whenever you can finalize a couple of acquisitions," Elegance pointed out.

As befits a fledgling business, the stock remains volatile, shedding below $3 a share within the last few days. A few days ago, it had been exchanging at roughly $5 a share.

Salter pointed out the stock can be a victim of short-selling, by which a trader sells an ordinary he's given using the objective of replacing it later by repurchasing it in the less costly.

"The main reason you've got a large amount of short-selling is simply because the commonly does not trust sports companies," Salter pointed out. "Everybody believes really the only key to purchase today is Internet stocks." how to set up a skateboard

Richard Giss, someone in Deloitte & Touche LLP's consumer business group, hasn't examined Quad X Sports' proper proper strategic business plan, but expressed general caution about entering the ever-consolidating sports retail market. To compete within the giants, smaller sized sized sized players have to get a effective niche.

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