{"id":19604,"date":"2012-03-20T13:50:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T17:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=19604"},"modified":"2012-03-20T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T17:51:00","slug":"sale-of-city-market-chain-may-close-within-two-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/03\/sale-of-city-market-chain-may-close-within-two-weeks","title":{"rendered":"Sale of City Market Chain May Close Within Two Weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11846\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11846\" style=\"width: 295px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11846 \" title=\"city-market\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/city-market.jpg\" alt=\"City Market\" width=\"295\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/city-market.jpg 295w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/city-market-150x86.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/city-market-250x144.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">City Market<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>City Market&#8217;s weekend &#8216;Blow Out&#8217; sale was designed to clear all existing inventory prior to the supermarket chain&#8217;s purchase, its current majority owner revealing a deal could close &#8220;within two weeks&#8221; and that it would retain a minority stake.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Finlayson, principal of current 78 per cent majority shareholder, Trans-Island Traders, told Tribune Business that he was now negotiating with two separate international groups over the purchase of a majority stake in the struggling five-store City Markets chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sale of the City Market food stores could close &#8220;within two weeks&#8221; with the Finlayson family remaining as equity investors regardless of who acquired majority control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[153],"class_list":["post-19604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}