{"id":59160,"date":"2017-07-26T10:41:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T14:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=59160"},"modified":"2017-07-26T10:41:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T14:41:29","slug":"hedge-fund-marcato-demands-that-rent-a-center-sell-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2017\/hedge-fund-marcato-demands-that-rent-a-center-sell-itself.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Marcato Demands That Rent-A-Center Sell Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Marcato Capital Management LP demanded on Tuesday that Rent-A-Center Inc start the process of selling itself or the activist hedge fund threatened to work to throw out board members up for re-election at next year&#8217;s annual meeting.   The San Francisco-based investment firm, fresh off a victory at Buffalo Wild Wings Inc, is now throwing its weight behind hedge fund Engaged Capital, which for months has been urging Rent-A-Center to sell itself, arguing that an overhaul of the company could be best achieved in the hands of private owners.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-rent-a-center-marcato-idUSKBN1AA2DH\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Marcato Capital Management LP demanded on Tuesday that Rent-A-Center Inc start the process of selling itself or the activist hedge fund threatened to work to throw out board members up for re-election at next year&#8217;s annual meeting. The San [&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-59160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59160","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=59160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59161,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59160\/revisions\/59161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}