{"id":505,"date":"2007-07-07T06:26:06","date_gmt":"2007-07-07T13:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2007-07-07T09:26:17","modified_gmt":"2007-07-07T16:26:17","slug":"will-upper-deck-topps-eisner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"Will Upper Deck Topps Eisner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/intro.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/intro.jpg','popup','width=480,height=320,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\/07\/intro-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Intro\" \/><\/a>Former <strong>Disney<\/strong> CEO <strong>Micheal Eisner<\/strong> currently &#8220;finds himself the unwitting star of the second installment of his own worst nightmare,&#8221; according to <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/bwdaily\/dnflash\/content\/jul2007\/db2007076_046731.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Businessweek<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. This time it all hinges on his bid to take over bubblegum maker <strong>Topps<\/strong>, a business that the Carlsbad-based trading card company <strong>Upper Deck<\/strong> would very much like to own.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After initially resisting the overture from Upper Deck, the Topps board will announce on Monday, July 9, whether it intends to entertain Upper Deck&#8217;s offer. That would likely send Eisner to the showers, according to those with knowledge of the media mogul, who say he is unlikely to increase his $9.75-per-share offer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess we&#8217;ll see on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/bwdaily\/dnflash\/content\/jul2007\/db2007076_046731.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Businessweek<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/business\/chi-sun_topps_0708jul08,0,838278.story?coll=chi-bizfront-hed\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Disney CEO Micheal Eisner currently &#8220;finds himself the unwitting star of the second installment of his own worst nightmare,&#8221; according to Businessweek. This time it all hinges on his bid to take over bubblegum maker Topps, a business that the Carlsbad-based trading card company Upper Deck would very much like to own. After initially [&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\/505"}],"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=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}