{"id":8155,"date":"2009-05-18T14:37:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T21:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8155"},"modified":"2009-05-18T14:59:08","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T21:59:08","slug":"vf-in-active-talks-to-buy-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8155","title":{"rendered":"VF In Active Talks To Buy Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/vfcorp.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/vfcorp.jpg','popup','width=176,height=109,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\/2009\/05\/vfcorp-tm.jpg\" height=\"61\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Vfcorp\" \/><\/a>According to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aFIIsdwplaWs&amp;refer=home\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg.com<\/a><\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vfc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">VF Corp&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> CEO <strong>Eric Wiseman<\/strong> is letting people know that he and the company are in &#8220;active discussions&#8221; on an outdoor\/action sports acquisition. Wonder who that could be?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere are lots of really interesting discussions about brands that may be appropriate,\u201d Wiseman, 53, said in a May 15 interview at VF\u2019s headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina. \u201cI hope we can make an interesting acquisition this year.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The word before was that VF was gunning for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcshoes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DC Shoes<\/a><\/strong>. But with everything going down lately, we&#8217;re wondering why VF would take one little bite, when they could just chomp down on the whole thing. . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=aFIIsdwplaWs&amp;refer=home\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a story on Bloomberg.com VF Corp&#8217;s CEO Eric Wiseman is letting people know that he and the company are in &#8220;active discussions&#8221; on an outdoor\/action sports acquisition. Wonder who that could be? \u201cThere are lots of really interesting discussions about brands that may be appropriate,\u201d Wiseman, 53, said in a May 15 interview [&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":[10,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155"}],"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=8155"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8160,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155\/revisions\/8160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}