Billabong Logo — Billabong is an Australian company clothing surf, skate and snowboard. It is currently one of the giants of the extreme sports industry with Quiksilver and Rip Curl. Billabong The word comes from the native Australians and means oxbow (gap left when a river cuts a short cut or bend) of “Billa”, in English “creek” and Castilian “stream”, and “bong” in English “dead” and Castilian “dead”.
Billabong was founded in 1973 and was founder Gordon Merchant. The company started manufacturing swimsuits to practice surf swimsuits for professional as well as leisure. Given the good results and great local reputation was forged in 1977, Billabong started making various types of clothing such as shirts surf influence or pants. In 1983 the Australian company in the U.S. market broke precedents in 1985 in New Zealand, in 1987 in Europe and 2001 in Latin America with Brazil as the main country of distribution. More