{"id":130539,"date":"2017-04-12T06:50:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T13:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=130539"},"modified":"2017-04-12T06:50:38","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T13:50:38","slug":"pon-holdings-makes-offer-to-buy-accell-create-worlds-largest-cycling-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=130539","title":{"rendered":"Pon Holdings Makes Offer to Buy Accell, Create World&#8217;s Largest Cycling Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pon Holdings, a Dutch company that already owns Focus, Gazelle, Cerv\u00e9lo, and who bought Santa Cruz in 2015, has made an offer to purchase the Accell Group for a whopping $895 million USD (\u20ac845 million). Accell Group is home to Diamondback, Raleigh, Ghost, Winora, Lapierre, and Haibike, so if the marriage between Pon and Accell were to happen, it would create one of the largest, if not the largest, cycling conglomerates in the world. Pon says that the \u20ac845 million offer boils down to\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinkbike.com\/news\/pon-holdings-accell-group.html?trk=rss\" 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>Pon Holdings, a Dutch company that already owns Focus, Gazelle, Cerv\u00e9lo, and who bought Santa Cruz in 2015, has made an offer to purchase the Accell Group for a whopping $895 million USD (\u20ac845 million). Accell Group is home to Diamondback, Raleigh, Ghost, Winora, Lapierre, and Haibike, so if the marriage between Pon and Accell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,84,6,38,39,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmx","category-action-sports-business-news","category-cycling","category-cyclocross","category-mt-bike","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130539","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=130539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130540,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130539\/revisions\/130540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}