{"id":41330,"date":"2013-04-23T09:55:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T16:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=41330"},"modified":"2013-04-23T09:56:04","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T16:56:04","slug":"naude-billabong-talks-not-stalled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=41330","title":{"rendered":"Naude &#038; Billabong Talks Not Stalled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/billabong_corp.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/billabong_corp.jpg','popup','width=97,height=121,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\/2013\/04\/billabong_corp-tm4.jpg\" height=\"124\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Billabong Corp\" \/><\/a>The rumors rolling the Australian business press last night is that talks between <strong>Paul Naude<\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong<\/a><\/strong> have stalled, but, according to a story in <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/business\/billabong-denies-takeover-talks-stalled-20130423-2ibo4.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Age<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Billabong says this <em>not<\/em> the case.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Billabong said it is on track to update the market on the status of exclusive talks on a potential takeover bid after exclusivity period ends this evening. . . \u2018\u2018Consistent with the ASX announcement of April 9th, Billabong will then provide a further update on the status of the proposal,&#8221; a Billabong spokesman said.. . He refuted suggestions that negotiations have been delayed by Billabong failing to provide documents to the consortium lead by Billabong executive Paul Naude. . . \u2018\u2018The team continues to work tirelessly and cooperatively, as it has done for almost four months. Any suggestion that information has been held back is entirely incorrect,\u2019\u2019 the spokesman said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That means there should be an announcement real soon one way or another. Most analysts appear to believe a deal will go through because without it, Billabong is going to need to come up with another AUS$100 million to stay afloat. Talk about being stuck between rocks and sharper rocks. . . <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/business\/billabong-denies-takeover-talks-stalled-20130423-2ibo4.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Age<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rumors rolling the Australian business press last night is that talks between Paul Naude and Billabong have stalled, but, according to a story in The Age, Billabong says this not the case. Billabong said it is on track to update the market on the status of exclusive talks on a potential takeover bid after [&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\/41330"}],"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=41330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41331,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41330\/revisions\/41331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}