Quiksilver Inc. coming to Park City

Park City has been tabbed by a sports equipment and apparel powerhouse to house the headquarters for its U.S. winter-sports businesses, and a distribution facility will be added in the Salt Lake area.

Quiksilver Inc., based in Huntington Beach, Calif., said Tuesday that its Park City operations, to be called Mountain Center, will serve as national headquarters for Rossignol and Dynastar — both now based in Burlington, Vt. — and some operations of Quiksilver's existing snowboard business in Washington state.

The Park City and Salt Lake operations will have about 100 jobs, with most of them in Park City.

Quiksilver said Park City will serve as headquarters for all U.S. operations of Rossignol, Dynastar, Lange and Look and for the new Roxy ski business, a collaboration with Dynastar focusing on alpine ski products for young women. The Mountain Center also will handle some functions of Quiksilver's Lib Technologies, Gnu and Bent Metal snowboard brands.

Francois Goulet, president of Rossignol North America, said Park City operations will include administration, sales, marketing and promotions and sports marketing.

Many Rossignol administrative functions — including treasury, human resources and legal components — will be consolidated with Quiksilver's operations in Huntington Beach, and Quiksilver will maintain some presence in Vermont and Washington.

Goulet said the Sale Lake distribution center's location has not been determined — the company is in discussions with several developers — and the Park City operations will be in a new facility in the Redstone area at the entrance to Park City.

The Salt Lake-area distribution facility will provide the Americas with mountain-related products. Quiksilver has a regional distribution office in Clearfield with about 20 employees, and some will move to the Salt Lake facility when it is completed.

The move of facilities and people to the Mountain Center is expected to start next spring, and the Salt Lake distribution facility is expected to be operational at about the same time.

Quiksilver completed its Rossignol Group acquisition in July. Rossignol's revenues totaled about $589 million in the 12 months prior to March 31, and the combined company has annual revenues of nearly $2 billion.