This week I caught up with Ken Chaplin, vice president of global marketing for Crocs.
So there's no shortage of Crocs bulls and still plenty of volatility to play.
Other competitors in the consumer cyclical sector include: Crocs (CROX), Deckers Outdoor Corp (DECK), and Skechers USA (SKX).
But within the company, there was a notion that perhaps even critics could find something to love about Crocs.
Trucks ferry all types of kicks, from Crocs to Christian Lacroix stilettos, to and from the UPS hub all day and night.
Here, boat tour operators such as Adelaide River Queen Cruises actively try to attract the crocs by dangling meat over the side.
Options on Crocs were changing hands at a fairly rapid clip, with trading in calls outpacing that in puts by more than 3-to-1.
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While Crocs clogs were undeniably popular, they were also scorned by fashionistas and people tired of seeing the colorful plastic shoes nearly everywhere.
Crocs slid 1.01, or 5%, to 19.41, after the shoe maker's fourth-quarter earnings topped expectations but its first-quarter earnings outlook was below forecasts.
At Crocs, 65% of its colorful shoes are expected to be made in China this year through third-party manufacturers, down from 80% last year.
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It competes against brands such as Geox, Ecco, Crocs and Belle.
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McCarvel is familiar with the criticism of the original Crocs design.
Shoe-maker Crocs (CROX) has long been a market darling, but that changed in a big way after the close yesterday as the company cut its quarterly forecasts.
Mario Batali is a hero despite the crime of orange Crocs because his expansionist empire helps fuel a vigorous charity component that benefits a wide variety of causes.
You will need to be self-sufficient: there are no shops, indeed no nothing, en route - just unspoilt forests, streams to ford (watch out for crocs) and broad beaches a-scuttle with hundreds of crabs.
The excitement has not died down since, with Tinaroo becoming a favourite for Tablelanders as well as Cairnsites fleeing seasonal jellyfish, the threat of giant crocs and the swelter of the lowlands.
Andy, who was forty-three, was wearing a washed-out T-shirt and a pair of Crocs with a South Korean flag on them, which went nicely with the middle-aged grunginess of his shaved scalp.
Trucks ferry all types of kicks, from Crocs (nasdaq: CROX - news - people ) to Christian Lacroix stilettos, to and from the UPS hub all day and night.
Crocs, which have some structure, cushion and breathability, can be an easy alternative to flip-flops, while sandals with a substantial foot bed and softer and broader straps are also a better option, Oswell said.
Crocodile-tagging safaris, where researchers measure and label the crocs as part of a monitoring program, are night-time affairs, taken after a candlelit three-course meal of delicious reef fish washed down with chilled Chilean sauvignon blanc.
They delighted in learning about everything from the Baltic Dry Index (the daily number given to the price of moving raw materials by sea) to the stock of Crocs, which several of them also wore.
But the last word on Steve Irwin seemed to belong to Africa's greatest crocodile-hunter, Khalid Hassen, bagger of 17, 000 crocs the easy way, with a rifle, who said it simply didn't seem right that a fish should have killed him.
The pretty-as-a-video Aussie, who favors low-cut and the occasional bikini tops, posts amusing observational clips on wearing Crocs (1.2 million views), her phony ultrasound (19 million views) and her big winner: how to fake a six-pack (27.6 million views).
Shattering misconceptions that crocodiles only come in various shades of dark, menacing green, Sony has managed to genetically engineer crocs in girly pink, luscious red, and chocolaty brown colors exclusively for the sake of wrapping its CS series VAIO notebooks in organic texture.
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Mind you, textures are all those crocs sacrificed, as like the company's earlier Crocodile-themed machines these lappys are still made entirely of plastic and bits of silicon -- just grooved and pigmented to look like prehistoric, genetically modified reptiles (check out the detail pic after the break).
ENGADGET: Sony shows that 'C' stands for Crocodile with skinned VAIO Type C
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Option traders snapped up contracts across the board in Crocs, which ventured into the top 10 most actively traded contracts by volume at the midweek point, with activity concentrated on the put side of the July '07 series at the 40.0 strike, and on the call side at the 45.0 strike.
"A lot of the haters didn't like the way other people looked in them, but they did maybe resent a little bit the comfort those people had and that they had the courage to go ahead and go out in public and wear them, " explained Dale Bathum, Crocs' senior vice president of product.
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