{"id":17508,"date":"2010-08-25T05:17:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T12:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=17508"},"modified":"2010-08-25T09:32:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T16:32:10","slug":"west-49-shareholders-approve-of-billabong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=17508","title":{"rendered":"West 49 Shareholders Approve Of Billabong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/west49_billabong.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/west49_billabong.jpg','popup','width=209,height=150,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/west49_billabong-tm.jpg\" height=\"71\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"West49 Billabong\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.west49.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">West 49&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> shareholders decided that being purchased by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong<\/a><\/strong> was a great idea, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocbj.com\/news\/2010\/aug\/25\/west-49-shareholders-sign-acquisition-billabong\/\" target=\"_blank\">OC Business Journal<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Shareholders of West 49 voted nearly unanimously for Billabong\u2019s $93 million buyout. The deal is set to close later this month or in early September. . . West 49, based near Toronto, runs a chain of 138 mall stores in Canada selling clothes inspired by skateboarding and snowboarding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, 99.9 percent of the shareholders agreed. Wonder who the hold out was?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocbj.com\/news\/2010\/aug\/25\/west-49-shareholders-sign-acquisition-billabong\/\" target=\"_blank\">OC Business Journal<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West 49&#8217;s shareholders decided that being purchased by Billabong was a great idea, according to a story in the OC Business Journal. Shareholders of West 49 voted nearly unanimously for Billabong\u2019s $93 million buyout. The deal is set to close later this month or in early September. . . West 49, based near Toronto, runs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17508"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17515,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17508\/revisions\/17515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}