In Stores Now! Spring V.Co-logical Series

Posted on January 26, 2012 by dsabori

Just browsing a local Volcom store and wanted to share a few spottings from the V.Co-logical Series. This Spring, you’ll find products being offered in our Men’s, Girls and Youth lines that feature elements that we think are worthy of being branded as V.Co-logical. Items made with Organic Cotton, Recycled PET, and Recycled Cotton…these aren’t your uncle’s old hippy clothes – trust me.

Not familiar with our V.Co-logical Series? Learn a bit by watching this.

For now, check out these items and ask your local shop if they’re carrying our V.Co-logical Series, supporting 1% for the Planet and many environmentally-focused non-profits each season.

V.Co Lives Sweater

Rudi Custom Hoody - 65% Recycled Cotton/35% Poly

All V.Co-logical Girls Table

All V.Co-logical Girls Table

Even Stone Age is Down with V.Co-logical

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Support Give Jeans a Chance & Nat’l Coalition for the Homeless!

Posted on January 12, 2012 by dsabori


What a great year we had for Give Jeans a Chance! If you’ll recall, we recently announced our DIY Challenge winners and rewarded Red Hill Elementary with a check to their PTA for $1,500! We’ve collected more than 28,000 pairs of jeans and jackets so far and will be sending out the details on the 2011 Coastal Edge GJAC drive in Virginia soon – what a success!

All this was done with your help. You stopped at your local shop to drop off jeans and jackets to be donated to the homeless in your community. You rallied support and held drives to collect on your own. You told your friends, made posts about it and sent us in photos…now it’s time to rally a little support for our Give Back partner, National Coalition for the Homeless.

Now available, exclusively here at volcom.com , is this exclusive Give Jeans a Chance t-shirt, worn very nicely here by skate legend Mark Appleyard. When you buy this tee, you’re supporting a cause that continues to build community and supporting an organization that is doing amazing work for the homeless community across the nation.

So get yours while they’re still available!

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Volcom Give Back Series – Life Rolls On Foundation

Posted on January 3, 2012 by dsabori

We’re so stoked to be offering tees and a swim piece in support of Life Rolls On Foundation this Spring. What an organization…founded by Jesse Billauer, the team there at LRO is using Action Sports to get youth with spinal cord injuries back into action.

Many of the 1.275 million Americans that are living with paralysis due to a spinal cord injury are youth between the ages of 18 and 30 and Life Rolls On is dedicated to improving their quality of life by utilizing surfing, skating and even snowboarding as a platform to inspire infinite possibilities despite paralysis. A portion of each sale of these Give Back items will go directly to Life Rolls On Foundation and the great work they are doing so go get some killer gear and help us support the great work that Life Rolls On Foundation is doing! Get ‘em here.

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Some Nice Words on The Inertia

Posted on January 3, 2012 by dsabori

Thanks to Andrew Fish, contributing blogger at The Inertia, for the complimentary write up on our New Future outlook…

“Volcom’s corporate mantra, “Youth Against Establishment,” screams “I don’t give a f-ck” loud and clear. But all this rebellious noise muffles the reality that Volcom actually does give a f-ck, especially about other people and the environment.”

Read the entire piece here.

Looking forward to a great 2012!

 

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Recycling What’s Left…It’s the Right Thing to Do

Posted on December 22, 2011 by dsabori

As the Holidays come to a pinnacle here, I know what you’re all thinking…what am I going to do with all the stuff that comes with all the stuff I’m going to get/give?! ;) Well perhaps not, but it’s a good thought to have…

With that said, I’d like to share a few services here at Volcom that we’ve installed here in the Kitchen Area Recycling Center (KARC) for our employees:

Styrofoam Recycling!

We’ve teamed up with Marko Foam to take any clean, packaging style Styrofoam. No food containers, just packaging waste. The styrofoam collected will go directly to Marko to be blown into new EPS surfboard blanks. My last 2 boards were shaped with Marko’s Envirofoam Core and I love them. Typically, Styrofoam is a difficult item to find recycling for, so this is a great service the Marko crew is providing. There’s a new bin in the recycling area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Skateboard Recycling!

Got a new board for Christmas? Cleaning out the garage and have old boards that need a home…drop them off in the iRide, iRecycle bin. This is a program where the guys at Art of Board take old boards, turn them into building materials and creatively make furniture, and other interior decorating components. And, to boot, their Giving Back in a big way to the Tony Hawk Foundation and many more worthy skate related organizations.

These guys are awesome and they do some amazing work. Check them out here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gift Wrap!

Lastly, gift wrap. I hear many conflicting theories on this…it can be recycled, it can’t. It really just depends on what type of paper it is, and where you’re trying to recycle it. I’ve called the Orange Coast Recycling Center, and they are indeed taking holiday gift wrap for recycling. This is just a PSA (we’re not collecting gift wrap here on site), so please contact them directly, or just show up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Holidays, from all of us here at Volcom!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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B.Y.O.B. in the NYC

Posted on December 15, 2011 by dsabori

Volcom Retail Stores Offer Incentive to B.Y.O.B.

The Volcom NYC team wants to remind you that there’s still time to go bagless and get a discount!

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Volcom Retail Stores Offer Incentive to B.Y.O.B.

Posted on December 15, 2011 by dsabori

According to the Heal the Bay website, on Dec. 15, a unique coalition of major retailers, local governments and regional environmental groups will hold the 5th annual A Day Without a Bag, which urges consumers to forego potentially environmentally harmful single-use plastic or paper grocery bags in favor of reusable totes.

When customers choose to B.Y.O.B. – that’s either Bring Your Own Bag, or Buy Your Own Bag- Volcom, a leading Action Sports company based in Southern California, will be supporting the movement by offering a 10% discount at their full-priced retail stores located across the country.

These same Volcom stores now offer reusable bags for $1, and if you don’t bring your own bag, or refuse a bag in the first place (the staff is being trained to always ask if you need one), you can choose to buy a branded, reusable tote and receive 10% off of your entire purchase for that day.

“It’s a pretty exciting program that we’re really happy to see progress,” says Tony Ordonez, Volcom’s Retail Sales Director. “Heal the Bay’s campaign is a fun way for us to get behind a concept that we’re really trying to push through all of our stores.”

On Thursday the 15th, you’ll see Volcom Retail employees wearing their B.Y.O.B. tees and encouraging you to leave without a bag, or with a reusable one, and to enjoy your 10% savings!

Learn more about Volcom’s Sustainability initiatives at www.volcom.com/newfuture and learn more about Heal the Bay at www.healthebay.com.

 

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Volcom Girls Team Helps Launch Foster Love Campaign

Posted on December 15, 2011 by dsabori

Earlier in the year, Regan Phillips, a dependency attorney in Orange County, and Colin Israel, our IT Director, came to us on behalf of CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) with the concept of developing something that could benefit the foster care community. Regan had been conceptualizing a great campaign and we were happy to be a part of it…

Here’s the story, as told by Regan:

The CASA Holiday Luncheon and Fashion Show served as the incredible back drop for the launch of this new campaign to raise awareness, opportunity and resource for children in foster care through collaboration with the fashion industry.  The event was held at the Ritz Carlton Laguna Niguel and featured designer Intermix and entertainer Kevin Montgomery.  It’s an annual event to raise money and grant holiday wishes for foster care children and it was the perfect place to introduce the campaign and to appeal to the attendees interest in fashion.

The limited edition Foster Love shirts, which were amazingly put together by Volcom desginer Jenna Graves – in record time – were a complete hit!  It seemed that anyone who stopped by to inquire about Foster Love and the shirts, purchased them.  Every dollar collected for the purchase of these shirts went directly to benefit Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) for the work they do with foster youth.  The shirts, priced at $50 apiece, have sold out!  And as a result, there have been received countless inquiries about how to get a shirt and when more will be available.

The collaboration with Volcom was the perfect way to start spreading the word about this fashion for cause campaign.  The campaign seeks to collaborate with various fashion houses in order to generate more interest and awareness for organizations like CASA.  Foster Love seeks to mainstream the issues facing and affecting foster care children and Volcom’s participation and support in this endeavor was hugely successful and resulted in a unique and fashionable shirt that sends an important social message about what we need to be nuturing in all of our children - because foster children belong to all of us.

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Keep an eye on the Foster Love campaign, looks like it could turn into something big ;)

BTW, the Foster Love logo was designed by an 18 year-old OC native, Teresa Cullen, who is currently studying graphic art design in San Francisco. Great work Teresa!

 

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Volcom Give Back Series: Supporting Protect Our Winters (POW)

Posted on December 12, 2011 by dsabori

From the POW press release:

PROTECT OUR WINTERS LAUNCHES WINTER GEAR DESIGNED BY VOLCOM

PACIFIC PALISADES, CA — December 9, 2011 – Protect Our Winters (POW) and Volcom announced today they have combined efforts to create a POW branded line of men’s and women’s performance outerwear to keep their environmentally motivated fans cozy this winter. The POW/Volcom line includes a men’s Hydro Full-Zip Hooded Sweatshirt, men’s beanie, a women’s 1/4 Zip Hooded Pullover and Women’s Technical Crew.  Proceeds of the merchandise will support Protect Our Winters through Volcom’s “Give Back Series” contributions.  The line is on sale now at all Volcom retail outlets and on POW’s website, www.protectourwinters.org.

“We’re excited and honored to have Volcom support us in this way.  Volcom is one of the most relevant brands in action sports and this partnership gives our supporters an opportunity to contribute to POW by purchasing some amazing gear”, said Chris Steinkamp, POW’s Executive Director.

“We are stoked to create merchandise that helps support such a great cause as Protect Our Winters.  We strongly believe and hope all our customers will get behind POW’s important mission to reduce climate change, said Dutch Schultz, Vice President of [Accessories, Footwear and Snow] Product, Volcom.  “Climate change in our mountains is an extremely important issue.  If we want to keep riding for decades to come, the winter sports community needs to be a collective force to help reduce climate change.”

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By way of our V.Co-logical Series and our 1% for the Planet membership, we’ve been supporting POW for a few years now. It’s nice to see the program develop and we love supporting the work they’re doing. Be sure to check them out to learn more, and get your Volcom x POW Snow gear to show your support!

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Wrapping it Up – Movember Comes to a Close

Posted on December 7, 2011 by dsabori

Well, we had a great run this year with our team up to 28 members, and almost $8,000 raised by team members here in the US. Additionally, we were able to raise $9,900 thanks to our Tilly’s Exclusive Movember tee. Everyone was in the spirit and even today, there are a few moustaches lingering…

Congrats to the Movember organization on a great campaign, and thanks for helping to raise awareness for such an important topic…men’s health. Many of us have lost loved ones to cancer and I know it strikes a personal chord each year so look for us to battle on again next year!

As for our Dare to Grow Hair Challenge? We’ll be awarding a few employees here with the honor of Best Moustache, Most Funds Raised, and Best Ambassador – Check out the trophies!

Dare to Grow Hair Challenge Trophies

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