{"id":41223,"date":"2013-04-19T09:01:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T16:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=41223"},"modified":"2013-04-19T09:02:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T16:02:09","slug":"giro-parent-easton-bell-sports-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=41223","title":{"rendered":"Giro Parent Easton-Bell Sports For Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikeistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/giro_logo-2.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.bikeistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/giro_logo-2.jpg','popup','width=480,height=83,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.bikeistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/giro_logo-2-tm.jpg\" height=\"34\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Giro Logo-2\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fenwaypartners.com\" target=\"_blank\">Fenway Partners<\/a><\/strong>, the New York-based private equity fund that owns <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.giro.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Giro Helmet<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s parent company <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastonbellsports.com\" target=\"_blank\">Easton-Bell<\/a><\/strong> is reportedly putting the company up for sale, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/04\/17\/us-eastonbell-sale-idUSBRE93G0LM20130417\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Based in Van Nuys, California, the company sells its products under several brands, including Easton, Bell, Riddell, Giro, Blackburn and Easton Cycling. It generated net sales of $827.2 million in fiscal year 2012.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the story, &#8220;people familiar with the matter&#8221; say the sale could bring as much as $900 million. Others, say it maybe difficult after a judge ruled that their football helmet arm, Riddell, may not have sufficiently warned players about the danger of concussions while wearing the helmets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/04\/17\/us-eastonbell-sale-idUSBRE93G0LM20130417\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fenway Partners, the New York-based private equity fund that owns Giro Helmet&#8216;s parent company Easton-Bell is reportedly putting the company up for sale, according to a story on Reuters. Based in Van Nuys, California, the company sells its products under several brands, including Easton, Bell, Riddell, Giro, Blackburn and Easton Cycling. It generated net sales [&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\/41223"}],"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=41223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41224,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41223\/revisions\/41224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}