{"id":102425,"date":"2019-07-19T15:39:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T13:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/07\/19\/liberty-store-sold-for-300m-to-private-equity-group\/"},"modified":"2019-07-19T15:39:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T13:39:47","slug":"liberty-store-sold-for-300m-to-private-equity-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=102425","title":{"rendered":"Liberty store sold for \u00a3300m to private equity group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BlueGem bought the London landmark retailer for \u00a332m in 2010 and also wants to offload Jack WillsA controlling stake in department store Liberty London has been sold to a private equity-led consortium in a deal valuing the business at \u00a3300m.The retail landmark, which was founded by Arthur Lasenby Liberty in 1875 with a \u00a32,000 loan from his future father-in-law, has grown to become an international brand that sells its fabrics and luxury leather goods around the world. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2019\/jul\/19\/liberty-store-sold-to-private-consortium-valued-at-300m\" target=\"_blank\">Liberty store sold for \u00a3300m to private equity group<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlueGem bought the London landmark retailer for \u00a332m in 2010 and also wants to offload Jack WillsA controlling stake in department store Liberty London has been sold to a private equity-led consortium in a deal valuing the business at \u00a3300m.The retail landmark, which was founded by Arthur Lasenby Liberty in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}