{"id":45,"date":"2004-10-30T00:30:13","date_gmt":"2004-10-30T08:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/30\/build-a-bear-stuffs-coffers-with-ipo-gains\/"},"modified":"2004-10-30T00:30:13","modified_gmt":"2004-10-30T08:30:13","slug":"build-a-bear-stuffs-coffers-with-ipo-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/30\/build-a-bear-stuffs-coffers-with-ipo-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"Build-A-Bear Stuffs Coffers with IPO Gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><b>The Enquirer<\/b>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enquirer.com\/editions\/2004\/10\/30\/biz_buildabear.html\">Walnut Group Scores Big for Backing Build-A-Bear<\/a>.  An initial public offering has turned the small bears at Build-A-Bear Workshop into big business for the retailer&#8217;s long-time backer, Cincinnati-based Walnut Group. While the Thursday IPO on the New York Stock Exchange reduced the equity group&#8217;s position from 18 percent of outstanding shares to 8.8 percent of the St. Louis-based retailer, nobody at Walnut Group was complaining very much.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/contracts.onecle.com\/alpha\/7614.shtml\">Build-A-Bear Workshop contracts<\/a> are now online.  Includes many employment agreements, leases, and services agreements.  Recently, Shopping.com also had a successful IPO.  I&#8217;ve also posted <a href=\"http:\/\/contracts.onecle.com\/alpha\/7613.shtml\">Shopping.com contracts<\/a> online as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Enquirer: Walnut Group Scores Big for Backing Build-A-Bear. An initial public offering has turned the small bears at Build-A-Bear Workshop into big business for the retailer&#8217;s long-time backer, Cincinnati-based Walnut Group. While the Thursday IPO on the New York Stock Exchange reduced the equity group&#8217;s position from 18 percent of outstanding shares to 8.8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ipo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}