{"id":5252,"date":"2018-04-13T11:03:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T15:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=e02e709884bae705cc0f3fc2f4eecd6e"},"modified":"2018-04-13T11:03:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T15:03:57","slug":"toy-company-bids-890-million-for-toys-r-us-stores-in-canada-and-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/13\/toy-company-bids-890-million-for-toys-r-us-stores-in-canada-and-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Toy company bids $890 million for Toys \u2018R\u2019 Us stores in Canada and the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toy company MGA Entertainment said on Friday it put in an US$890 million bid for Toys &#8216;R&#8217; Us stores in the U.S. and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Billionaire Isaac Larian, who heads MGA Entertainment, put in a bid of US$675 million for stores in the United States and US$215 million for stores in Canada, MGA said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The funds to purchase the stores will come from Larian&#8217;s own coffers, additional investors and bank financing, the privately held toy and entertainment company said.<\/p>\n<p>Toys &#8216;R&#8217; Us, once the largest U.S. toy retailer, abandoned last month a plan to emerge from bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The toy retailer abandoned last month a plan to emerge from bankruptcy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}