{"id":126236,"date":"2016-12-22T14:13:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T21:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=126236"},"modified":"2016-12-22T14:13:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T21:13:22","slug":"business-news-top-stories-of-2016-a-year-in-acquisitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=126236","title":{"rendered":"Business News &#8211; Top Stories of 2016 &#8211; A year in acquisitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year has been a busy one in terms of acquisitions within action and adventure sports.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no secret that consolidation is happening within our industry, but some of the brighter stories are also found within companies taking their business private once again (Electric), and smaller brands scaling their business with reinforced infrastructure (Salty Crew).<\/p>\n<p>Below, a look back on the year that was 2016\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grindtv.com\/transworld-business\/top-stories-2016-year-acquisitions\/#dP8LwiVkcWzWUplc.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>This year has been a busy one in terms of acquisitions within action and adventure sports. It\u2019s no secret that consolidation is happening within our industry, but some of the brighter stories are also found within companies taking their business private once again (Electric), and smaller brands scaling their business with reinforced infrastructure (Salty Crew). [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action-sports-business-news","category-fashion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126236","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=126236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126237,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126236\/revisions\/126237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}