{"id":4391,"date":"2014-07-10T08:37:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T03:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2014\/07\/10\/crown-family-reviewing-options-for-furniture-maker-woodard\/"},"modified":"2014-07-10T08:37:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T03:07:20","slug":"crown-family-reviewing-options-for-furniture-maker-woodard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/crown-family-reviewing-options-for-furniture-maker-woodard\/","title":{"rendered":"Crown family reviewing options for furniture-maker Woodard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By James P. Miller<\/p>\n<p> Woodard LLC, the Chicago outdoor-furniture firm owned by the Crown family&#8217;s CC Industries holding company, said today that the family is evaluating &#8220;strategic options&#8221; for Woodard as part of a broader review CC is conducting of its portfolio of businesses.<br \/>\n                        <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\n CC Industries owns a variety of assets, including truck-trailer maker Great Dane, farm-equipment manufacturer Bush Hog, real estate holdings, and Woodard. Over the past several months, the Crown family holding vehicle has opted to shed the bulk of its movie-theater operations and golf-course interests.<\/p>\n<p> In a Monday release, Woodard noted that those divestitures were the result of the family&#8217;s recent decision &#8220;to strategically evaluate their portfolio of operating businesses.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> In connection with that effort, the maker of metal and wicker furniture said, CC Industries has &#8220;been engaged in discussions with potential financial and operating partners to evaluate the stategic options for Woodard.&#8221; To date, the company said, &#8220;nothing has been finalized&#8221; regarding Woodard&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n<p>jpmiller@tribune.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By James P. Miller Woodard LLC, the Chicago outdoor-furniture firm owned by the Crown family&#8217;s CC Industries holding company, said today that the family is evaluating &#8220;strategic options&#8221; for Woodard as part of a broader review CC is conducting of its portfolio of businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-indonesia-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}