{"id":21435,"date":"2010-05-27T15:09:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T19:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=21435"},"modified":"2010-05-27T15:09:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T19:09:51","slug":"navarre-considers-selling-funimation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/navarre-considers-selling-funimation\/","title":{"rendered":"Navarre Considers Selling FUNimation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Navarre Corporation has hired investment bank Houlihan Lokey to assist in the potential sale of the FUNimation subsidiary. Navarre&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/ir.navarre.com\/phoenix.zhtml?c=105157&#038;p=irol-newsArticle&#038;ID=1431926&#038;highlight=\" target=\"_blank\">announcement<\/a> states that &#8220;Funimation&#8217;s recent results have generally met expectations,&#8221; but FUNimation&#8217;s future will necessitate &#8220;co-productions of original anime content, social networks and digital broadcasting&#8221; that fall outside of Navarre&#8217;s core future concentration on distribution and software publishing. No prospective buyer for FUNimation is named, and Navarre emphasizes that its strategic analysis may not result in a sale of the FUNimation subsidiary.<\/p>\n<p>Navarre acquired Funimation Productions, afterward known as FUNimation Entertainment, in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mania.com\/navarre-looking-to-sell-funimation_article_122844.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mania<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Navarre Corporation has hired investment bank Houlihan Lokey to assist in the potential sale of the FUNimation subsidiary. Navarre&#8217;s announcement states that &#8220;Funimation&#8217;s recent results have generally met expectations,&#8221; but FUNimation&#8217;s future will necessitate &#8220;co-productions of original anime content, social networks and digital broadcasting&#8221; that fall outside of Navarre&#8217;s core future concentration on distribution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21436,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21435\/revisions\/21436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}