Irvine-based clothing maker Billabong USA is making a deeper move into retail by buying Torrance-based Becker Surf & Sport, which runs four Orange County stores.
Becker’s stores and website sell clothes from Billabong and several of its competitors and are expected to continue doing so after the deal closes.
Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.
The move is the latest in retail by Billabong USA, the Americas arm of Australia’s Billabong International Ltd.
In November, Billabong bought San Clemente’s Swell.com, an online seller of clothes inspired by surfing.
The company made its big move into retail in 2004 when it Bought Beach Access, a chain of stores now called Beach Works, and Honolua Surf Co. stores in Hawaii.
In all, Billabong USA runs about 100 stores in the U.S., Canada and South America.
Becker is one of the top sellers of surf-inspired clothes—much of it from OC companies—along with Anaheim-based Pacific Sunwear of California Inc. and Huntington Surf & Sport and Jack’s Surfboards, both in Huntington Beach.
