Rip Curl is a surfing and snow-sports brand founded in 1969 by Brian Singer and Doug Warbrick. Its range includes wetsuits, surfing apparel and equipment, while its event programme spans professional contests and the GromSearch youth series. The brand says it sponsored the 1973 Rip Curl Pro at Bells Beach and continues to support athletes and WSL World Championship Tour events; those relationships are stated by Rip Curl, without implying it sponsors every event on the tour.
Same category, HQ in Australia
RURunners World is an athletics specialist store in East Kew, Melbourne. It sells running, cross country, trail and track and field shoes, including spikes, plus apparel and accessories from other brands. Its own site says it was established in 1976 by Australian marathon runner Neil Ryan.
Sports retail
SESea to Summit is an Australian outdoor-gear brand created in 1991 after founder Roland Tyson spent years making equipment for expeditions. Its products include sleeping gear, camp kitchen equipment and other portable outdoor essentials for hiking, travel and mountaineering. The company says Tyson first experimented with an industrial sewing machine in 1983 and later tested designs with Penny Sanderson on trips; 1983 is the start of his craft, not the brand's founding year.
Specialist sports equipment
ATSydney label pairing bold visual collections with race-cut technical kit for road, gravel and off-bike use. Its collections span race-fit jerseys, bib shorts, outer layers and accessories for road and gravel riding, often released in bold seasonal graphics.
Technical cycling apparel
BABates makes horse saddles and saddlery accessories, including adjustable-fit models with its EASY-CHANGE gullet system. The Australian brand traces its heritage to 1934.
Horse saddles and saddlery accessories
BLBrisbane brand combining graphic race kit with community rides and mental-health initiatives embedded in its rider culture. Its product collections sit alongside organised rides and community initiatives, giving the brand a social identity beyond technical race clothing.
Cycling apparel and community rides
BLBloch is an Australian dance brand founded in Sydney in 1932, making ballet shoes, pointe shoes, dancewear and dance-inspired activewear.
Dance shoes and apparel
BLBlunt Envy makes stunt scooters and parts under the Blunt and Envy brands. The company started in Melbourne, Australia in 2009, when it made aftermarket scooter parts.
Stunt scooters and parts
BOBont Cycling designs anatomically shaped shoes in Australia for road, track, time trial and triathlon riding. It points to eight gold medals won by athletes wearing its shoes at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and more than four decades of performance-footwear development.
Anatomical cycling shoes
