High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Quiksilver, Inc. (NYSE: ZQK), is an American company based in Huntington Beach, California, one of the world`s largest manufacturers of surfwear and other boardsport-related equipment. Its logo, designed by the company founder Alan Green and John Law in Torquay, Victoria, Australia in 1969, inspired by Hokusai`s woodcut The Great Wave off Kanagawa consists of a large wave with a mountain on a red background.