{"id":338,"date":"2007-06-27T08:48:58","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T15:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=338"},"modified":"2007-06-27T08:49:02","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T15:49:02","slug":"upper-decks-official-425-million-topps-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"Upper Deck&#8217;s Official $425 Million Topps Offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/portal-logoud.gif\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/portal-logoud.gif','popup','width=188,height=53,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/portal-logoud-tm.jpg\" height=\"28\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Portal Logoud\" \/><\/a>According to the <strong><em>San Diego Business Journal<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Upper Deck Co.<\/strong> had officially made a bid buy rival <strong>Topps Co<\/strong>. for about $425 million, a move that could undermine an attempt by former Walt Disney Co. head Michael Eisner to acquire the trading card company. . . Upper Deck, a Carlsbad-based trading card and sports entertainment publishing company said late Monday that its offer values Topps&#8217;s shares at $10.75 each and would expire on July 24.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This story is much more complicated that it seems as Upper Deck had to force Topps into considering it&#8217;s offer. And some are suggesting that Topps managment hadn&#8217;t told share holders that Eisner was planning on &#8220;retain existing management.&#8221; For more on those details check out <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/business\/consumer\/articles\/0626biz-topps26-ON.html\" target=\"_blank\">this story from AZcentral.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdbj.com\/article.asp?aID=85162201.574856.1493128.8473736.8720449.708&amp;aID2=114847\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Business Journal<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the San Diego Business Journal: Upper Deck Co. had officially made a bid buy rival Topps Co. for about $425 million, a move that could undermine an attempt by former Walt Disney Co. head Michael Eisner to acquire the trading card company. . . Upper Deck, a Carlsbad-based trading card and sports entertainment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}