{"id":60520,"date":"2012-02-15T20:15:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T03:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=60520"},"modified":"2012-02-15T20:15:56","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T03:15:56","slug":"fashion-billabong-being-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=60520","title":{"rendered":"Fashion &#8211; Billabong Being Sold?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Billabong fields private equity takeover bid<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Private equity firms are eying Billabong International Ltd, with one suitor presenting an offer worth $766 million, according to The Australian Financial Review.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The debt-laden surfwear retailer and manufacturer has become the latest company to be targeted by private equity buyers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The offer, said to be worth at least\u00c2\u00a0&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessspectator.com.au\/bs.nsf\/Article\/Billabong-sees-private-equity-takeover-offer-pd20120215-RHNQ9?OpenDocument&amp;src=hp7\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billabong fields private equity takeover bid Private equity firms are eying Billabong International Ltd, with one suitor presenting an offer worth $766 million, according to The Australian Financial Review. The debt-laden surfwear retailer and manufacturer has become the latest company to be targeted by private equity buyers. The offer, said to be worth at least\u00c2\u00a0&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fashion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60520","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=60520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60522,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60520\/revisions\/60522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}