{"id":123292,"date":"2016-10-04T19:35:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T02:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=123292"},"modified":"2016-10-04T19:35:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T02:35:18","slug":"business-news-k2-on-the-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=123292","title":{"rendered":"Business News &#8211; K2 on the Block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Parent company of K2, Volkl, Line, Full Tilt, BCA, and Marmot announces plan to sell or close its winter sports businesses<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Newell Brands, a\u00a0global consumer goods company, announced plans this morning via a press release to sell\u00a0about 10 percent of its portfolio, including its winter sports businesses\u00a0K2 Sports, Marker\/Volkl, BCA, Line Skis, Full Tilt, and Marmot. If Newell can\u2019t find buyers midway through next year, these brands, which CEO Michael Polk has referred to as \u201cdistractions,\u201d will face the chopping block.<\/p>\n<p>Skiers are good with uncertainty. Will this old cheese make me puke? Eh, worth it. Will this cliff drop wreck me? I hope not, but let\u2019s see. But the news from Newell introduces\u00a0a whole new level of unknowns. By the end of 2017\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powder.com\/stories\/parent-company-of-k2-markervolkl-line-looking-to-sell\/#jymWdQ4hu6YLEyqJ.97\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parent company of K2, Volkl, Line, Full Tilt, BCA, and Marmot announces plan to sell or close its winter sports businesses Newell Brands, a\u00a0global consumer goods company, announced plans this morning via a press release to sell\u00a0about 10 percent of its portfolio, including its winter sports businesses\u00a0K2 Sports, Marker\/Volkl, BCA, Line Skis, Full Tilt, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,77,51,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-sports-business-news","category-fashion","category-skiing","category-snow","category-snowboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123293,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123292\/revisions\/123293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}