{"id":59169,"date":"2017-07-27T09:18:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T13:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=59169"},"modified":"2017-07-27T09:18:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T13:18:08","slug":"activist-investor-urges-sale-of-barnes-noble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2017\/activist-investor-urges-sale-of-barnes-noble.html","title":{"rendered":"Activist Investor Urges Sale of Barnes &#038; Noble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Reuters) Activist hedge fund Sandell Asset Management Corp on Tuesday urged Barnes &#038; Noble Inc (BKS.N) to sell itself, saying the struggling U.S. bookstore chain operator could attract media or internet companies seeking a retail presence.   Sandell, which said it had built up a &#8220;meaningful&#8221; stake in New York-based Barnes &#038; Noble, said the retailer could fetch a price of at least $12 per share in a sale that would take the company private.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-barnes-noble-sandell-asset-management-idUSKBN1AA19P\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Activist hedge fund Sandell Asset Management Corp on Tuesday urged Barnes &#038; Noble Inc (BKS.N) to sell itself, saying the struggling U.S. bookstore chain operator could attract media or internet companies seeking a retail presence. Sandell, which said it [&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-59169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59169","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=59169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59170,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59169\/revisions\/59170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}