abstract:Hang Ten is a sportswear brand known as "The Original Surf Brand" which first created boardshorts in San Diego, California, in 1960. Hang Ten is currently owned by American Brand Holdings of New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Australia’s GoldCoastis a surfing paradisewhere grommets (Aussieslang for surfers) hang teninthe waves that flow into famoussurfingbeaches like the Spit, Surfers Paradise, andMermaidBeach.
Terry Matthews wouldn't know "hang ten" from "high five, " but in his office in the farmlands outside Ottawa the transplanted Welshman uses surf imagery for catching the big ones in telecom, as he did in the 1990s at Canada's Newbridge Networks.