{"id":35083,"date":"2010-08-06T12:09:39","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T19:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=35083"},"modified":"2010-08-06T12:58:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T19:58:14","slug":"officially-official-harley-davidson-%e2%80%9csells%e2%80%9d-mv-agusta-to-castiglioni-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=35083","title":{"rendered":"Officially Official: Harley-Davidson \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sells\u00e2\u20ac\u009d MV Agusta to Castiglioni Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There has to be a bevy of high-fives going on in Milwaukee right now, as Harley-Davidson has finally unloaded MV Agusta from its holdings (we broke the news on the purchase earlier this morning). Harley-Davidson bought MV Agusta for $109 million back in 2008 (most of which was bad debt), and now just a little over two years later is making a tidy profit of\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6well, nothing. After wiping the books clean, investing in new infrastructre, and getting MV Agusta back on track with an all new model line-up (with a bike on the way), Harley-Davidson saw a paltry sum of \u00e2\u201a\u00ac1 cross its desks. Harley-Davidson shares are down 3.5% as of this writing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Instead Harley-Davidson is calling things even with the Castiglioni family, who would have seen a stock pay-out had the company exchanged hands with another buyer, like TPG for instance. The Castiglioni\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stock was worth\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asphaltandrubber.com\/news\/harley-davidson-sells-mv-agusta-castiglioni\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><script type=\"text\/javascript\" language=\"javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anrdoezrs.net\/placeholder-3701073?target=_top&#038;mouseover=N\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has to be a bevy of high-fives going on in Milwaukee right now, as Harley-Davidson has finally unloaded MV Agusta from its holdings (we broke the news on the purchase earlier this morning). Harley-Davidson bought MV Agusta for $109 million back in 2008 (most of which was bad debt), and now just a little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,44,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motorcycle","category-new-motorcycle-products-tests","category-street-riding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35083","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=35083"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35085,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35083\/revisions\/35085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}