{"id":69624,"date":"2019-06-10T01:22:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T05:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=69624"},"modified":"2019-06-12T02:12:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T06:12:52","slug":"waterstones-owner-buys-us-chain-barnes-noble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2019\/waterstones-owner-buys-us-chain-barnes-noble.html","title":{"rendered":"Waterstones Owner Buys US Chain Barnes &#038; Noble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(The Guardian) The hedge fund owner of the UK\u2019s largest book chain, Waterstones, has bought Barnes &#038; Noble, the biggest chain in the US, in a $683m (\u00a3537m) deal heralded as a boost in their battle to preserve real-world bookshops. The UK arm of the $35bn Elliott Management hedge fund plans to install James Daunt, the Waterstones boss, in New York as chief executive of both chains, with the two brands retained and operated separately.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2019\/jun\/07\/waterstones-owner-buys-us-chain-barnes-noble\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The Guardian) The hedge fund owner of the UK\u2019s largest book chain, Waterstones, has bought Barnes &#038; Noble, the biggest chain in the US, in a $683m (\u00a3537m) deal heralded as a boost in their battle to preserve real-world bookshops. [&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-69624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69625,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69624\/revisions\/69625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}