{"id":38996,"date":"2013-11-08T02:51:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T07:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=38996"},"modified":"2013-11-08T02:51:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T07:51:39","slug":"hedge-fund-is-said-to-push-for-mens-wearhouse-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2013\/hedge-fund-is-said-to-push-for-mens-wearhouse-merger.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Is Said to Push for Men\u2019s Wearhouse Merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DealBook &#8211; Over the last two months, Men\u2019s Wearhouse has steadfastly rebuffed a $2.3 billion takeover bid by a smaller rival, Jos. A. Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Now, an activist investor is hoping to change the retailer\u2019s mind. A hedge fund, Eminence Capital, has acquired about a 9.8 percent stake in Men\u2019s Wearhouse and plans to push the company into reconsidering strategic options like the proposed merger with Jos. A. Bank, a person briefed on the matter said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/dealbook.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/07\/hedge-fund-is-said-to-push-for-mens-wearhouse-merger\/\" href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/07\/hedge-fund-is-said-to-push-for-mens-wearhouse-merger\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DealBook &#8211; Over the last two months, Men\u2019s Wearhouse has steadfastly rebuffed a $2.3 billion takeover bid by a smaller rival, Jos. A. Bank. Now, an activist investor is hoping to change the retailer\u2019s mind. A hedge fund, Eminence Capital, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38997,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38996\/revisions\/38997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}