{"id":63453,"date":"2018-04-29T00:09:49","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T04:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=63453"},"modified":"2018-05-01T00:48:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T04:48:00","slug":"britains-waterstones-has-been-bought-by-elliott-advisors-for-250m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2018\/britains-waterstones-has-been-bought-by-elliott-advisors-for-250m.html","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s Waterstones Has Been Bought by Elliott Advisors for \u00a3250m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(The Guardian) James Daunt, who has been Waterstones&#8217; CEO since 2011 and who presided over an 80% jump in annual profits in the year to April 2017, will remain in his position following the sale, along with his \u201ckey leadership team\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2018\/apr\/26\/waterstones-bookshops-bought-by-investment-firm-elliott-advisors-james-daunt\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The Guardian) James Daunt, who has been Waterstones&#8217; CEO since 2011 and who presided over an 80% jump in annual profits in the year to April 2017, will remain in his position following the sale, along with his \u201ckey leadership [&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-63453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63453","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=63453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63454,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63453\/revisions\/63454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}