{"id":146572,"date":"2026-01-23T17:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/146572\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T17:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T17:36:15","slug":"speedo-moving-north-american-hq-to-long-beach-ahead-of-l-a-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/146572\/","title":{"rendered":"Speedo moving North American HQ to Long Beach ahead of L.A. Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-marketing-and-sponsorship \">Speedo\u2019s North American headquarters are moving from Orange County, Calif., to Long Beach, as that city has \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/07\/01\/port-of-la-long-beach-land-la28-sailing-events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/07\/01\/port-of-la-long-beach-land-la28-sailing-events\/\">emerged as a hub for aquatic sports<\/a>\u201d during the 2028 L.A. Games, according to Iris Kwok of the L.A. TIMES. Pentland Brands, Speedo\u2019s parent company, specifically cited the Olympics \u201cas a driving factor in its decision to move.\u201d The new facility is expected to include a \u201cdedicated Speedo showroom, open office space and rooms for product design.\u201d Long Beach is hosting 11 different sports during the \u201928 Games, including open-water swimming, artistic swimming and water polo (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2026-01-22\/speedo-moves-u-s-headquarters-to-long-beach-ahead-of-olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/story\/2026-01-22\/speedo-moves-u-s-headquarters-to-long-beach-ahead-of-olympics\">L.A. TIMES, 1\/22<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speedo\u2019s North American headquarters are moving from Orange County, Calif., to Long Beach, as that city has \u201cemerged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132,70890],"class_list":{"0":"post-146572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news","11":"tag-speedo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}