{"id":24355,"date":"2011-07-15T14:39:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T21:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=24355"},"modified":"2011-07-15T14:57:18","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T21:57:18","slug":"pac-sun-and-their-greek-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=24355","title":{"rendered":"Pac Sun And Its Greek Owners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/pacsun_logo.png\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/pacsun_logo.png','popup','width=189,height=70,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\/2011\/07\/pacsun_logo-tm.jpg\" height=\"37\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Pacsun Logo\" \/><\/a>According to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/foreign-investor-quietly-bets-big-on-us-retail-2011-07-14?\" target=\"_blank\">MarketWatch.com<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Greek Investments<\/strong>, an Athens, Greece based investment group run by <strong>Jorge<\/strong> and <strong>Panayotis Constantino<\/strong> now owns 30.45 percent of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacsun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pac Sun<\/a><\/strong>. But that&#8217;s not all.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The firm is now the biggest single shareholder in sun-and-surf-inspired teen retailer Pacific Sunwear of California Inc.  and home-furnishings retailer <strong>Pier 1 Imports Inc.<\/strong>, and is the second-largest in dining chain <strong>Ruby Tuesday Inc.<\/strong>, according to FactSet Research. It also holds substantial stakes in restaurant chain Cosi Inc. and bank-holding company BFC Financial Corp. (BFCF).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They really know how to pick &#8217;em, huh? Add this to the list of things we&#8217;ll never understand about PacSun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/foreign-investor-quietly-bets-big-on-us-retail-2011-07-14?\" target=\"_blank\">MarketWatch<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a story on MarketWatch.com, Greek Investments, an Athens, Greece based investment group run by Jorge and Panayotis Constantino now owns 30.45 percent of Pac Sun. But that&#8217;s not all. The firm is now the biggest single shareholder in sun-and-surf-inspired teen retailer Pacific Sunwear of California Inc. and home-furnishings retailer Pier 1 Imports Inc., [&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\/24355"}],"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=24355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24361,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24355\/revisions\/24361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}