Core Store: Ann's Cottage Surf Shops, Cornwall
You could argue that a chain of fourteen surf shops is not “core”, but every business starts somewhere, and can only get that big by striking a chord. This is the story of Ann’s Cottage, the Cornish surf retail giant that grew from a petrol station shop at the back of the beach car park at Polzeath.
Core Store: Troggs Surf Shop, Northern Ireland
This July, Troggs Surf Shop celebrates four decades of serving Northern Ireland’s surf community. It doesn’t get more core than Troggs: a family business founded by a passionate surfer frustrated at how difficult it was getting hold of equipment in Northern Ireland, run by a multiple Irish National Surfing Champion, and with a surf school and now a new store dedicated exclusively to surf and watersports hardware. We caught up with proprietor Andy Hill to find out more about the store and its history as they build up to Troggs’ 40th birthday.
Core Store: Down The Line
Since opening in 1993, Hayle's Down The Line Surf Shop has always been a core surf shop, with surfboards, wetsuits and surf hardware being the backbone of their trade.
