{"id":70458,"date":"2019-08-09T02:17:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T06:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=70458"},"modified":"2019-08-09T02:17:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T06:17:48","slug":"barnes-and-noble-has-been-officially-sold-to-elliott-advisors-daunt-is-new-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2019\/barnes-and-noble-has-been-officially-sold-to-elliott-advisors-daunt-is-new-ceo.html","title":{"rendered":"Barnes and Noble has been officially sold to Elliott Advisors; Daunt is new CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Opalesque) The largest activist fund in the world Elliott has completed its $683m acquisition of US book giant Barnes &#038; Noble following approval by the majority of shareholders. Elliott&#8217;s acquisition of Barnes &#038; Noble, the largest retail bookseller in the United States, follows its June 2018 acquisition of Waterstones, the largest retail bookseller in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opalesque.com\/674821\/Barnes_and_Noble_has_been_officially_sold_to482.html\">To read this article: <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Opalesque) The largest activist fund in the world Elliott has completed its $683m acquisition of US book giant Barnes &#038; Noble following approval by the majority of shareholders. Elliott&#8217;s acquisition of Barnes &#038; Noble, the largest retail bookseller in the [&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-70458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70458","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=70458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70459,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70458\/revisions\/70459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}