{"id":898,"date":"2007-08-23T06:57:07","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T13:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=898"},"modified":"2007-08-23T06:57:41","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T13:57:41","slug":"trading-card-war-still-raging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=898","title":{"rendered":"Trading Card War Still Raging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/portal-logoud1.gif\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/portal-logoud1.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\/08\/portal-logoud-tm1.jpg\" height=\"56\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Portal Logoud\" \/><\/a>We <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=889\" target=\"_blank\">mentioned<\/a><\/strong> on Tuesday that Carlsbad based trading card giant <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upperdeck.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Upper Deck<\/a><\/strong> had pulled out of their $416 million bid to purchase the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Topps Co, Inc<\/a><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong> That of course caused Topps&#8217; stock to tumble 7% and made them a little angry according to the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/business\/20070823-9999-1b23topps.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a statement, Topps said the cancellation of Upper Deck&#8217;s $416 million offer was proof that the proposal had always been a &#8220;sham.&#8221; . . The New York company, which also owns the Bazooka and Ring Pop brands, said it would hold Carlsbad-based Upper Deck accountable for all &#8220;damages suffered by Topps and our stockholders.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Topps board was hoping to be purchased by an investment group led by former Disney head Michael Eisner. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/business\/20070823-9999-1b23topps.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We mentioned on Tuesday that Carlsbad based trading card giant Upper Deck had pulled out of their $416 million bid to purchase the Topps Co, Inc. That of course caused Topps&#8217; stock to tumble 7% and made them a little angry according to the San Diego Union Tribune. In a statement, Topps said the cancellation [&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":[8,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898"}],"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=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}