Who is the owner of Quiksilver Inc?

Answer 1

Quiksilver Inc is a public limited company traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: ZQK). Ownership of shares in Quiksilver means owning a part of the company including votes in how the company is run at shareholders meetings and a share of profits where appropriate (dividends). Most of Quiksilver is owned by financial institutions e.g. Rhone Capital L.L.C. owns over 30million Quiksilver shares and therefore owns just over a quarter of the company.

A previous answer stated that Bob McKnight owns Quiksilver. Bob McKnight is the Chief Executive Officer of Quiksilver and is therefore in charge of running the company. He also owns over 4 million Quiksilver shares at the time of this post and therefore still does own a small but substantial percentage of the company.

McKnight has been involved with Quiksilver for most of its history, teaming up with founding father Alan Green in the mid-seventies and has overseen much of the company growth and it is therefore almost certain that he has owned a substantially larger part of the business when it was still a private company. However, it is no longer accurate to call him the owner.

This stands in contrast to Rip Curl, which is still a private company. However as of the time of writing, Rip Curl is actively searching for investors (with the help of Bank of America) who may come to own the company.