{"id":1169,"date":"2008-07-18T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2008-07-18T10:29:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T17:29:08","slug":"billabong-begging-for-more-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1169","title":{"rendered":"Billabong Begging For More Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong International Ltd<\/a><\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> has been on the road lately trying to &#8220;raise debt in the US traditional private placement market,&#8221; according to a story on Australia&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessspectator.com.au\/bs.nsf\/Article\/Billabong-plans-US-note-private-placement-source-GN5HU?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">Business Spectator<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The company has completed a series of roadshows in the United States, hosted by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bankofamerica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bank of America<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commbank.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Commonwealth Bank of Australia<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wib.westpac.co.nz\/wibnz\/Publish.nsf\/Content\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Westpac Institutional Bank<\/a><\/strong>. . . . The company has been pursuing an aggressive expansion in the US and Europe. . . . The US private placement market is a popular source of funds for Australian companies looking for long-dated debt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Guess they&#8217;ve got to pay off <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=965\" target=\"_blank\">Lake and the boys<\/a><\/strong> some how.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessspectator.com.au\/bs.nsf\/Article\/Billabong-plans-US-note-private-placement-source-GN5HU?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">Business Spectator<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billabong International Ltd, has been on the road lately trying to &#8220;raise debt in the US traditional private placement market,&#8221; according to a story on Australia&#8217;s Business Spectator. The company has completed a series of roadshows in the United States, hosted by Bank of America, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Westpac Institutional Bank. . . [&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":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}