Male surfers may still rule at the beach, but females are hijacking the surf wear industry, driving sales and influencing marketing at Southern California’s largest surf apparel firms. Quiksilver Inc.

IPD Surf is one of Orange County’s newest names in the surf apparel industry, but its history dates back decades. The Costa Mesa company’s logo was originally created by Bob Hurley over 40 years ago.

Unlike the boys' pairs I used to borrow — long, baggy and cut straight across — these board shorts were actually made for us.

Brian Hirth, owner of Santa Ana-based Melmarc, started in the screen-printing business back in 1976. He’d walked up and down the streets peddling T-shirts. Back then his biggest clients: local ...

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Where’s the best surf shop in the country? Hawaii, you say. California, perhaps. Nah. How ‘bout New Jersey? A panel of experts with USA TODAY has created a short list of what it considers the best ...

When Rip Curl’s founders looked to expand operations into the United States four decades ago, they set up an office on the southern end of San Clemente, just a short paddle away from one of the best ...