Wie man bei themeparkreview und auf der offiziellen Six Flags Seite nachlesen kann, gibt es die Option (das heißt sie stehen noch nicht zum Verkauf) folgende Parks zu verkaufen:
Six Flags Magic Mountain
Six Flags Darien Lake
Six Flags Elitch Gardens
Six Flags Waterworld
Six Flags Splashtown
Six Flags Wild Waves
Besonders wundert mich das SFMM auf der Liste steht. Anscheinend passt der Park nicht mehr zu den Zielen die Six Flags verfolgen möchte. Anscheinend will man mehr in Richting Familie gehen.
Dann frage ich mich, warum mit Tatsu noch so viel Geld in den Park gesteckt wurde.
Einfach beantwortet: Mark Shapiro ist seit Dezember 2005 neuer CEO der Six Flags Inc.. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt war Tatsu aber bereits im Bau. Laut Shapiro hätte es keinen neuen Coaster gegeben, wenn er früher CEO geworden wäre!
Wenn Six Flags Magic Mountain zu Thrillig währe dann müsste man ja eigentl Six Flags Great Adventure auch verkaufen...
Mfg,
Hi,
Ich denke dass Six Flags Great Adventure weiterhin ein Aushängeschild für Thrill bei Six Flags bleiben wird.
Ich denke eher dass Six Flags Magic Mountan aus anderen gründen Verkauft wird.
gruß
erik
Coaster Count: 145 (135 Steel 10 Wooden) Fährst du noch? Oder drehst du schon?
Wenn Six Flags Magic Mountain zu Thrillig währe dann müsste man ja eigentl Six Flags Great Adventure auch verkaufen...
Das ist zu oberflächlich betrachtet. SFGA ist sehr erfolgreich und SFMM weniger erfolgreich. Außerdem gibt es noch den Punkt wertvolles Land, auf dem SFMM steht. Nebenbei wird noch eine Verbindung zu Disney und Knotts hergestellt, die in dieser Gegend Majors sind und anders als SFMM als Familienparks ausgeschrieben werden.
das was sie auch mit den MP gemacht haben??? oder was?
Wir wissen alle nicht was sich in Shapiros Kopf abspielt und was nach seiner Meinung die (neue?) Firmenphilosophie ist. Einzig das er wohl mehr in Richtung Familie gehen möchte, lässt sich erahnen.
Hab gestern bei der Geburtstagsparty des MP mit dem ehemaligen Parkchef JO MC gesprochen der jetzt chef eines Six Flags Parks in den starten ist. Er hat
mir bestedicht das Six Flags sich von 6 seiner Parks trennt darunter ist auch Six Flags Magic Mountain.
Hab gestern bei der Geburtstagsparty des MP mit dem ehemaligen Parkchef JO MC gesprochen der jetzt chef eines Six Flags Parks in den starten ist. Er hat
mir bestedicht das Six Flags sich von 6 seiner Parks trennt darunter ist auch Six Flags Magic Mountain.
Hi,
Was sind den die Starten?
Ich kenn nur die Staaten .
gruß
Coaster Count: 145 (135 Steel 10 Wooden) Fährst du noch? Oder drehst du schon?
Die Bewohner von Sant Clarita halten zu Six Flags Magic Mountain. Lieber weiterhin den Freizeitpark als weitere Baugrundstücke für Häuser ist die Forderung.
latimes.com la-me-magic2jul02,0,14922.story
Sieben Parks gingen laut Meldung an ein Unternehmen namens PARC 7F-Operations Corp. of Jacksonville.
Six Flags to Sell 7 Parks for $312 Million to PARC (Update4)
By Josh Fineman
Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Six Flags Inc. agreed to sell seven U.S. theme parks for $312 million and use the proceeds to reduce debt, sending its shares to the biggest gain in two months.
The nation's second-biggest theme park owner after Walt Disney Co. will sell to a unit of PARC Management LLC, a closely held company run by former amusement park executives. The Six Flags parks, located in Buffalo, New York; Concord, California; Denver; Houston; Seattle; and two in Oklahoma City, attracted 3.6 million customers in 2006.
The parks generated $30 million of cash flow last year, New York-based Six Flags said in a statement today. The company's biggest parks include Magic Mountain near Los Angeles and Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey.
``It's just an outstanding deal,'' said David Miller, an analyst at Sanders Morris Harris Group Inc. in Los Angeles. Six Flags will have more than $350 million in cash to pay off debt after the sale, including funds it received selling Houston AstroWorld in June. Miller doesn't own any Six Flags shares and has a ``strong buy'' rating on them.
Shares of Six Flags gained 47 cents, or 8.7 percent, to $5.90 at 4:04 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. It was the biggest increase since Nov. 3. The stock slumped 32 percent last year.
PARC Management expects to complete the purchase in March. PARC is paying $275 million in cash up front and will pay $37 million at a later date.
Reviving Sales
Six Flags, which owns 27 locations, put the parks up for sale in June as part of a plan to reverse slumping attendance and boost spending. The company tried to make the parks more appealing to families while focusing less on teenagers.
The sale doesn't include Magic Mountain, and the company is not ``actively seeking'' to sell any additional parks, spokeswoman Wendy Goldberg said. The parks in Buffalo and Denver will no longer carry the Six Flags name after the sale.
The company's $502.6 million of 9.625 percent notes due 2014 rose 1.5 cents on the dollar to 95 cents, according to Trace, the NASD's bond-price reporting system. The yield, which moves in the opposite direction, fell to 10.6 percent.
PARC Management Chairman Michael Jenkins, a former vice president of Six Flags over Texas, was among a group of people who helped oil executive Angus Wynne found the theme-park brand in 1961.
Broadway Shows
PARC Management was formed by Jenkins, who has produced more than 200 Broadway musicals, and Randal Drew, who was an executive with Ogden Park Management. Ogden owned the Wet N' Wild and Raging Waters brands, PARC spokesman Richard Jett said.
PARC will simultaneously sell the parks to CNL Income Properties Inc., a Florida-based real estate investment trust that owns 52 leisure properties in the U.S. and Canada, and lease them from CNL.
The parks being sold are: Six Flags Darien Lake in Buffalo, New York; Six Flags Elitch Gardens in Denver; Frontier City and the White Water Bay park in Oklahoma City; SplashTown in Houston; Waterworld USA in Concord, California; and Wild Waves and Enchanted Village in Seattle.
Six Flags lost $1 billion from 1999 through last year's third quarter amid falling attendance and increased spending on new rides. Revenue probably fell 2 percent last year as attendance dropped 14 percent to 28 million customers, Chief Financial Officer Jeff Speed said last month.
CEO Moves
The purchase price equals 10.4 times earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, Miller said. Six Flags is selling for the same multiple that Blackstone Group LP paid for Legoland in early 2005.
Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder, the company's largest investor, won a three-month battle with former chief executive officer Kieran Burke for control of Six Flags in 2005.
The perceived risk of owning Six Flag's bonds fell today, according to traders who bet on the creditworthiness of companies in the credit-default swap market.
Credit-default swaps based on $10 million of Six Flags' bonds fell 6.2 percent to $549,000 from $585,000 yesterday, according to data compiled by London-based CMA Datavision. Before today, the five-year contracts had risen 11 percent since Nov. 7. An increase in price indicates deterioration in the perception of credit quality; a decline suggests improvement.
Credit-default swaps are financial instruments based on bonds and loans that are used to speculate on a company's ability to repay debt. They were conceived to protect bondholders against default and pay the buyer face value in exchange for the underlying securities should the company fail to adhere to its debt agreements.
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