{"id":44,"date":"2007-05-26T16:09:34","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T23:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2007-05-26T16:09:43","modified_gmt":"2007-05-26T23:09:43","slug":"upper-deck-topps-out-at-416-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Upper Deck Topps Out At $416 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/ans5-box-open2-small21.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/ans5-box-open2-small21.jpg','popup','width=400,height=377,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\/05\/ans5-box-open2-small2-tm1.jpg\" height=\"188\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ans5 Box Open2 Small2\" \/><\/a>Carlsbad&#8217;s <strong>Upper Deck<\/strong> is in the hunt to purchase <strong>Topps<\/strong>, the grand daddy of trading card companies. But so is former <strong>Disney<\/strong> boss <strong>Michael Eisner<\/strong>. Upper Deck is offering $1 a share more than Eisner and things are reportedly looking for the consolidation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>James Barrett<\/strong>, an analyst who covers Topps for <strong>CL King<\/strong>, predicted that barring any regulatory obstacles, hard-charging Upper Deck founder and Chairman <strong>Richard McWilliam<\/strong> would get his wish of owning Topps.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If we had the money we&#8217;d buy it just to own the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wackypackages.com\/\">Wacky Packages<\/a><\/strong> franchise.<\/p>\n<p>[<strong>Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/business\/20070525-9999-1b25cards.html\">San Diego Union Tribune<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlsbad&#8217;s Upper Deck is in the hunt to purchase Topps, the grand daddy of trading card companies. But so is former Disney boss Michael Eisner. Upper Deck is offering $1 a share more than Eisner and things are reportedly looking for the consolidation. James Barrett, an analyst who covers Topps for CL King, predicted that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"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=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}