{"id":2756,"date":"2012-01-29T19:44:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T19:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seloc.org\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2012-01-29T19:44:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T19:44:13","slug":"bahar-looking-for-backers-for-lotus-buyout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/2012\/01\/29\/bahar-looking-for-backers-for-lotus-buyout\/","title":{"rendered":"Bahar looking for backers for Lotus buyout?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seloc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Dany-Bahar-Office.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2757\" title=\"Dany Bahar Office\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seloc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Dany-Bahar-Office-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Dany-Bahar-Office-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Dany-Bahar-Office-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Dany-Bahar-Office-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Dany-Bahar-Office-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Dany-Bahar-Office.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>After the purchase of Lotus&#8217;s parent company, Proton, from the Malaysian government by DRB-Hicom, the Malaysian auto group owned by billionaire Syed Mokhtar, the Sunday Times featured a story today suggesting that current CEO Dany Bahar may be attempting to raise funds for a buyout of the company.<\/p>\n<p>Since the sale of Proton it has been widely rumoured that DRB-Hicom may be looking to offload the Norfolk based company, and if so it seems likely that Bahar will be competing with Genii Capital who owns a stake in the Lotus F1 team and have reportedly been carrying out due diligence on the firm ahead of a possible purchase.<\/p>\n<p>Discussion: <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.seloc.org\/viewthread.php?tid=327758\">SELOC Chat &#8211; Bahar looking for backers for Lotus buyout?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the purchase of Lotus&#8217;s parent company, Proton, from the Malaysian government by DRB-Hicom, the Malaysian auto group owned by billionaire Syed Mokhtar, the Sunday Times featured a story today suggesting that current CEO Dany Bahar may be attempting to raise funds for a buyout of the company. Since the sale of Proton it has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[197,228,374,410,680,825,833],"class_list":["post-2756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotus","tag-dany-bahar","tag-drb-hicom","tag-genii-capital","tag-hethel","tag-proton","tag-sunday-times","tag-syed-mokhtar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}