{"id":53857,"date":"2016-08-11T09:09:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T13:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=53857"},"modified":"2016-08-11T09:09:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T13:09:31","slug":"steinhoff-raises-poundland-offer-after-hedge-fund-increases-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2016\/steinhoff-raises-poundland-offer-after-hedge-fund-increases-stake.html","title":{"rendered":"Steinhoff Raises Poundland Offer After Hedge Fund Increases Stake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) South Africa&#8217;s Steinhoff has improved the terms of its agreed takeover of British discount retailer Poundland, saying its 610.4 million pound ($794.6 million) offer is final. The increased offer follows a recent move by U.S. hedge fund Elliott to up its stake in Poundland to 17.5 percent, making it the firm&#8217;s second largest investor after Steinhoff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/poundland-ma-steinhoff-idUSL8N1AS1JH\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) South Africa&#8217;s Steinhoff has improved the terms of its agreed takeover of British discount retailer Poundland, saying its 610.4 million pound ($794.6 million) offer is final. The increased offer follows a recent move by U.S. hedge fund Elliott to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53857","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53858,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53857\/revisions\/53858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}