{"id":3744,"date":"2009-01-05T12:02:37","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T20:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3744"},"modified":"2009-01-05T12:05:42","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T20:05:42","slug":"burkles-barnes-noble-synergies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3744","title":{"rendered":"Burkle&#8217;s Barnes &#038; Noble Synergies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionsportsgroup.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">ASG<\/a><\/strong> parent company <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sourceinterlink.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source Interlink&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> owner (and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2422\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Hawk supporter<\/a><\/strong>) <strong>Ron Burkle<\/strong> has just announced that his <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yucaipa_Cos.\" target=\"_blank\">Yucaipa Cos<\/a><\/strong><strong> <\/strong>owns an 8.5 percent stake in <strong>Barnes &#38; Nobel<\/strong>, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601205&amp;refer=consumer&amp;sid=a7d6e2KnM3U4\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Burkle intends to monitor Barnes &#38; Noble\u2019s performance and consider the option to discuss strategic opportunities with the company\u2019s board or executives, according to a regulatory filing today. The stake makes Burkle, 56, the fourth-largest shareholder of Barnes &#38; Noble, based on data compiled by Bloomberg.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wonder if one of those strategic opportunities will be cutting all competing magazine titles (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transworld.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">TransWorld<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smpmags.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Storm Mountain Publishing<\/a><\/strong>, etc. . . ) from the magazine racks in the bookseller&#8217;s stores? Burkle definitely knows how to leverage his assets so you never know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601205&amp;refer=consumer&amp;sid=a7d6e2KnM3U4\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASG parent company Source Interlink&#8217;s owner (and Tony Hawk supporter) Ron Burkle has just announced that his Yucaipa Cos owns an 8.5 percent stake in Barnes &#38; Nobel, according to a story on Bloomberg.com. Burkle intends to monitor Barnes &#38; Noble\u2019s performance and consider the option to discuss strategic opportunities with the company\u2019s board or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744"}],"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=3744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3746,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions\/3746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}