{"id":53346,"date":"2018-12-09T16:24:56","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T23:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=53346"},"modified":"2018-12-10T10:38:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T17:38:28","slug":"chip-wilson-slides-back-into-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=53346","title":{"rendered":"Chip Wilson Slides Back Into Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-53347 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/chip_wilson-200x143.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/chip_wilson-200x143.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/chip_wilson.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Billionaire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?s=westbeach\"><strong>Westbeach<\/strong><\/a> co-founder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?s=%22chip+wilson%22\"><strong>Chip Wilson<\/strong><\/a> (his other little start-up was <strong>Lululemon Athletica<\/strong>) has joined forces with Chinese sportswear giant&nbsp;<strong>Anta Sports Products Ltd<\/strong>&nbsp;and some others to purchase Finland based&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?s=%22amer+sport%22\"><strong>Amer Sport<\/strong><\/a>, owners of <strong>Salomon<\/strong>, <strong>Atomic<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Arc\u2019Teryx<\/strong>, <strong>Suunto<\/strong>, <strong>Mavic<\/strong>, <strong>Percor<\/strong>, and<strong> Wilson<\/strong>&nbsp;for $5.2 billion, according to a story on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-12-03\/lululemon-founder-is-said-close-to-joining-chinese-bid-for-amer\"><strong>Bloomberg<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The consortium, which includes Chinese buyout firm FountainVest Partners, will offer shareholders of Finland\u2019s Amer Sports Oyj 40 euros a share in cash, or about 4.6 billion euros. The deal is the largest struck by a Chinese acquirer for a European asset since China Investment Corp. agreed to buy Logicor Europe for almost $14 billion in June 2017, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Guess Chip just couldn&#8217;t stay away from the snow any longer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-12-03\/lululemon-founder-is-said-close-to-joining-chinese-bid-for-amer\">Bloomberg<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Westbeach co-founder Chip Wilson (his other little start-up was Lululemon Athletica) has joined forces with Chinese sportswear giant&nbsp;Anta Sports Products Ltd&nbsp;and some others to purchase Finland based&nbsp;Amer Sport, owners of Salomon, Atomic,&nbsp;Arc\u2019Teryx, Suunto, Mavic, Percor, and Wilson&nbsp;for $5.2 billion, according to a story on Bloomberg. The consortium, which includes Chinese buyout firm FountainVest Partners, [&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":[4,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53346"}],"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=53346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53350,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53346\/revisions\/53350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}