founders dare jennings and andrew rich headquarters alexandria sydney australia area served worldwide parent saban brands website official website a mambo shirt logo mambo graphics also 100 % mambo and marketed as mambo is an australian company designer of surf and street clothing . it was launched in 1984 by musician dare jennings and business partner andrew rich in the sydney suburb of alexandria . on january 6 2015 it was announced that mambo was acquired by saban brands contents 1 early days 2 mambo art 3 exclusive stores 4 history and development chronology 5 internationally 6 designs 7 notes 8 references 9 external links early days edit in the early 1970s dare jennings owned a large and successful screenprinting business phantom textile printers producing t shirt and fabric prints for a variety of commercial clients . he also owned an independent record label phantom records . mambo began life as an after hours project in the phantom artroom . the graphics were initially created by in house artists such as jodi phillis and by freelance artist richard allan whose first t shirt graphics real wrestlers real wrestling and call of the wild farting dog were the best sellers . . 100 % mambo clothing was often available in surf skate shops in the mid to late 80s in the uk . as skateboarders naturally wore a lot of surfer inspired gear mambo board shorts in loud hawaiian patterns were ideal skate wear . other similar surf skate brands around at the time were stussy life s a beach and vision street wear . as this was long before skate culture became mainstream e.g. skate shops often only sold vans vision or converse shoes these were usually niche products . mambo is an australian surf and street clothing brand . it was found by dare jennings and business partner andrew rich at alexandria in sydney in 1984 . mambo art edit richard allan s arrival at mambo was followed by other australian and overseas artists including reg mombassa guitarist and original member of australian rock band mental as anything robert moore paul mcneil marcelle lunam matthew martin gerry wedd robert williams us trevor jackson uk stephen bliss uk rockin jelly bean japan and more recently josh petherick ben frost kelly smith marty schneider and kareena zerefos . exclusive stores edit mambo opened its first store in 1995 . located in the sydney suburb of paddington called the mambo friendship store . stores opened in other australian cities and in the uk europe asia and nz . by 2001 mambo had opened 25 independent retail stores . history and development chronology edit in 1994 the first mambo loud shirt was released . the design was influenced by the famous hawaiian aloha shirt . it was called blue hawaii by martin plaza a band mate of reg mombassa . this shirt became one of mambo s best sellers and started the mambo loud shirt style . in 2000 mambo received an invitation from the australian wool board to design the athlete s uniform for the opening ceremony of the summer olympic games in sydney . after the summer olympic games dare jennings was approached by gazal corporation to buy the brand . dare jennings sold the company in march of that year and took over the role of creative director . he left the company two years later in 2002 . in 2006 principle an australian research company named mambo australia s sixth most authentic brand alongside bonds speedo r. m. williams and billabong . 1 in 2008 mambo was sold to the nervous investor group an australian based consortium headed by angus kingsmill and based in the sydney beachside suburb of manly . 2 in 2012 mambo has entered into partnerships with key players in the us and brazil with plans to introduce the brand on a vast scale in each country . 3 internationally edit mambo is sold across australia and new zealand and in 2011 entered the united states and canada and has opened mambo stores in the uk . designs edit the first pair of board short was created by an english designer paul smith . peter pilotto and others designers inspired the female wetsuits . notes edit superbrands vol .5 . superbrands . 2007 time magazine . time . oct 23rd 2008 mambo restructure leads to global expansion . textile source . melbourne . 2 february 2012 . references edit eye no. 46 vol . 12 edited by john l. walters quantum publishing london winter 2002 . 1 external links edit official website mambo graphics on twitter mambo graphics on facebook mambo graphics on instagram retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title mambo graphics & oldid 742859842 categories australian brandsclothing companies of australiasurfwear brandscycle manufacturers of australiasnowboarding companiesskateboarding companiesswimwear manufacturersclothing retailers of australiasporting goods manufacturers of australiacompanies based in sydneydesign companies established in 19841984 establishments in australiahidden categories official website different in wikidata and wikipediatwitter username not in wikidata 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