Billabong is headquartered in Burleigh Heads, Australia and was founded there in 1973. Billabong is publicly traded on the Australian securities exchange. Billabong is a global leader in the surf industry partly because of its grass roots Australian background but also because they continue to sign top athletes like Andy Irons, Occy, Donavon Frankenreiter and Joel Parkinson. When I looked at the tags on some of billabongs products I found they make their products in Mexico, Honduras, Bangladesh, and China