{"id":2419,"date":"2008-11-10T13:46:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T21:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2008-11-10T13:46:26","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T21:46:26","slug":"quiksilver-sale-talk-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2419","title":{"rendered":"Quiksilver Sale Talk Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/10\/tough-times-for-retailers-and-retail-deals\/\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times Dealbook<\/a><\/strong> blog made mention of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quiksilver.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Quiksilver<\/a><\/strong> today with the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One small deal that may be in the works would be the sale of Quiksilver, a maker of surfer-style clothing, to <strong>Nike <\/strong>or another strategic acquirer. Quicksilver [sic] has retained <strong>Morgan Stanley<\/strong> to advise on its strategic alternatives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And seeing as Quik&#8217;s stock closed well below the $2 mark again today it could be a good deal, as long as Nike doesn&#8217;t mind buying over a billion in debt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/10\/tough-times-for-retailers-and-retail-deals\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deal Book<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times Dealbook blog made mention of Quiksilver today with the following: One small deal that may be in the works would be the sale of Quiksilver, a maker of surfer-style clothing, to Nike or another strategic acquirer. Quicksilver [sic] has retained Morgan Stanley to advise on its strategic alternatives. And seeing as [&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":[10,3,4,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419"}],"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=2419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}