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State of Skate: 5.19.04

By Keith Eric Davidson
EXPN.com

Tuesday, May 18, 2004

Vans, the original skateboard shoe company founded in 1966, was sold for a cool $396 million to the VF Corporation, the biggest apparel company in the world. VF owns American favorites Lee, Wrangler and Rustler jeans. Expect to see Vans at a rodeo near you. With the combined springtime acquisitions of DC and Vans totaling more than $550 million, how much time is left for the last big independent, Sole Technologies, makers of etnies, eS and Emerica? Plenty, according to CEO/founder Pierre André ...

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