{"id":83515,"date":"2012-07-19T14:55:32","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T05:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=25942"},"modified":"2016-04-01T03:12:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T18:12:12","slug":"yamada-denki-buys-best-denki","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/yamada-denki-buys-best-denki\/","title":{"rendered":"Yamada Denki Buys Best Denki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gunma Prefecture-based Yamada Denki announced the purchase of local consumer electronics mass merchandiser Best Denki, the seventh largest company in the industry. Yamada is currently the second-largest shareholder in the company, and will spend 12.1 billion yen by the end of the year to take a 51% stake. Best Denki will retain its name and exchange listing, and use the funds to expand and enhance its existing store chain, and establish a presence in Indonesia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunma Prefecture-based Yamada Denki announced the purchase of local consumer electronics mass merchandiser Best Denki, the seventh largest company in the industry. Yamada is currently the second-largest shareholder in the company, and will spend 12.1 billion yen by the end of the year to take a 51% stake. Best Denki will retain its name and exchange listing, and use the funds to expand and enhance its existing store chain, and establish a presence in Indonesia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-83515","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-category-business","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/83515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}