Jarden to buy K2 for $1.2B

doesnt matter you still sold out to a fukin toaster company... and you guys still make your skis in china and you still dont pay seth morrision enough money for what he does forthe company, no hate on you i have the up most respect for you personaly and your art work is amazing but when people buy k2 skis it now goes to a toaster making company... it doesnt matter if your a publicly traded company you have sold out.... end of story.... Billabong is a publicly traded company but the ceo Gordan merchant still owns 51 % of the company and keeps it on track, Same with volcom...... Im not crying on any ones shoulder im telling a fact you all work for a toaster maker ...

sure k2 skis may get better but the only reason jarden bought K2 was to make more money... k2 is an awesome ski company but these owners dont truley care abot skiing as awhole or about skiing as a culture... sure day to day running of the biz may still be the same.. but every time you buy those skis your contributing to making a huge corporation bigger and putting money in the back pockets of greedy old rich people that have not a care in the world for what a cork 5 is, a mctwist or that seth morrison is the best skier of ALL time...
and since they have just bought the company you guys should Automaticly triple seth morrisons annual pay ....

dude, listen to what your saying??

you sound like an emo kid. cheer up buddy.

when K2 moved production to China the qaulity only improved. It is a fact that they actually flew out all the tech crew involved in the production to help train the new employees to continue and improve the high quality of their production.

K2 skis still has to support itself. They cant just blow $1000000 on Seth's salary. To pay him that, K2 Skis would itself have to have the income to support it. Why should Jarden the parent company bankroll K2 and spend a shitload of money on Seths salary? That doesnt make any sense. Jarden purchased the umbrella of K2 Sports companies because they make money. K2 Sports has been a massive group of companies for a long time. Think buisness wise about what your trying to say here.

I mean would you go and buy K2 purely because you knew Seth got a 150% salary increase??

lol.

And to that other guy, why do you want them to raise his pay so badly? Seriously, it's interesting how much you seem to care about it.

a 1 .2 billion dollar company can afford to pay its Star athlete 1 million a year, when Volcom floated on the stock exchange over a year ago Bruce irons was renegociating his contract volcom gave him stock as part of the deal casue there a core company he is now worth over 10 million dollars becasue of that share deal ... Seth Morrison is the best skier in the world hands down he gets more media coverage and does amazing marketing for the company he is the poster child of K2 he should get his dues, not a shit sallery especially now that there owned by a huge corperation..... if k2 was as core as there claiming seth would have been able to cut seth in on a share deal they can afford it even more so now but guess what Ski companies are stingy, the only person gettingpad his worth is Candide Thovex and this is becasue he rides for a real company, Quiksilver all there ceos are former shapers, marketing men, ex pro surfers, ex pro snowboards... they actually care about where the compay is going , about there athletes and sports of surfing, snowboarding skiing ect ect, do you think they will ever sell out like this no they wont, same goes with Burton....I have no hate for k2 as a company they have done alot for the sport but claiming that selling to a big multinational corporation is not selling out get with the program and come back to reality... if you honestly think that some Ceo of a toaster company that skis a few times a year cares about new schoool skiing as a whole well then youve done way too much acid and if you can spare some send me a few viles casue i wanan come to your world of denial

K2 Sports  and everything they own is worth $1.2 Billion

.....wait for it......

not K2 Skis!!

K2 Skis is one of the 16 odd companies that K2 Sports owns man. As i said before. If K2 had the figures that could justify a $1,000,000 salary im sure hed be on it. Skiing as newschoolers.com knows is nowhere near the size of surfing, snowboarding or skateboarding, sponsored riders for either of thsoe 3 sports reach far more people than Seth Morrison does!!

Just curious... what do you think Candide is paid??

I dont think I know how much candide gets paid, my old coach and team manager for dynastar was teh International team manager for dynaster for 6 years. Candide signed onto salomon from dynastar for 150 thousand euros a year. then when he switched to Rossi he got 250 a year , now seesings that Quiksilver own Rossi and one of the reasons not the main but one of the reasons they bought rossi was cause candide was on the program so from my point of view Candide would be making proably alomost if not more out of Quik than he makes out of Rossi, AS for Seth , skiing is as big as surfing there are actually more skiers in the world than surfers, sure 90% of them arent into new school but the marketing of company can be freeskiing orientaated directed at a mass market level exactly the same as surfing and snowboarding. Do you that ever surfer in the world wants to pull into death pits at Teauops, or pipe like andy ? no or Do 10 foot b/s airs like Taj no alot of people ride long boards, short boards body boars all sorts of stuff but the marketing of big companies like Billabong and Quick to the massmarket is there main line up of Super pros and they pay them acordingly.. Shit loads of People all over the world buy billabong and Quiksilver and rip curl , do all of them surf no they dont but the life style and pros that the companies sponosr create an image that generates interest in there company and then sells. People idnvtify with this and then buy set companys shorts, t-shirts or what ever else... this theroy needs to be applied to skiing and while some companys do this k2 for 1 ski companys in general dont pay there athletes the money they deserve... in my opinon Seth is the most under paid person in Action sports he should have stock in K2 and should be being paid out the wazoo.. sure k2 skis is 1/16 of the massive k2 list of companies... its still the original and they should pay there athletes acordingly... I have no hate for K2 all im saying is that the new company that bought them doesnt care about skiing. And weather the company is run the same or not makes no difference the money you now spend on there skis goes to share holders to dont give 2 shits about skiing or the lifestyle that goes with it..