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The English group United Parks continues to grow. Just acquired (through its U.S. subsidiary Palace Entertainment) Amusement Park Dutch Wonderland as the company announces . This park owned by Hershey Entertainment & Resorts , a group that sought a buyer for the park as pennlive.com , but Parks Meeting as proposed an attractive price to buy Dutch Wonderland, they decided to sell it. This will allow Hershey Entertainment & Resorts focus on their other activities (including, Hersheypark and the Hershey Hotel.)
Dutch Wonderland is in Pennsylvania (Northeast U.S.). It is a small park open since 1963 which has 30 rides (including a wooden roller coaster and a steel). Richard T.
Golding, president of Palace Entertainment, said: "The acquisition of Dutch Wonderland is a step in the growth strategy of Parks Meeting, which consists of the acquisition and successful integration of park leaders. In light of the current situation in financial markets, this acquisition demonstrates the ability of the group United Parks to fulfill its growth strategy. "
Candover, a victim of financial crisis, planning a sale or IPO for the group United Parks. But as reported by Financial Times the two bids received on Friday (one by Apollo Management, which bought the group also tried to Cedar Fair a few months ago, and another by a consortium formed by Advent International and Carlyle Group) were lower than 2000 million euros they wanted to achieve. So Candover executives gather this week to decide the future of Parks Meeting. According to analysts, the end will not sell Candover United Parks, but they should refinance their debts so that the group can continue to grow.
Candover In the last year and sold several companies for a total of 3800 million euros.
Last year 25 million people visited amusement parks Parks Group Meeting. In 2006 (when Candover bought the group), profit before tax of Parks Gathered were 67 million euros this year should reach 180 million euros.
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These days are important dates for the future Parks Meeting, the English giant's theme parks.
Depending on the outcome of the summer season, where the group cost of living water parks its peak, it largely will decide the future of the company, controlled since 2007 by the British private equity firm Candover, which paid for the company 935 million euros to U.S. fund Advent International.
The possible output of Candover United Parks this year has already attracted preliminary bids on the environment of 2,000 million euros from private equity groups such as Apollo, Providence and Carlyle. In the latter, one could add Advent, which remains interested in rejoining the group, according to industry sources, pointing to September as the time to resume negotiations. Back
The other option you gain weight to allow Candover get strong capital gains is the IPO of the shares of the owner of the Madrid Amusement Park, which traded on the floor until 2004, when excluded through a tender offer of shares by Advent.
The good performance of Amadeus, the reservation system also controlled by funds (Cinven and BC Partners) - on his return to the stock in April, with an increase of 18%, is seen as an inducement by Candover, which last year underwent a serious crisis as a result of stock-market crash of one of their vehicles quoted by the financial crisis.
From the entrance of Candover, which also participates in Spain in the cable operator ONO through Multitel society, United Parks has accelerated its procurement policy in crisis. In the past five years, has acquired more than 50 theme parks in Europe and the United States to manage 69 (tripling in size since 2007), mainly, theme parks, attractions, zoos and water parks situados en 10 países. La última adquisición del grupo que también gestiona Faunia y el Parque Warner de Madrid ha sido la de Movie Park Germany, el parque temático de cine más grande de Europa.
Los números han acompañado al grupo de ocio, especializado en parques urbanos, que recibe 25 millones de visitantes anuales y obtuvo una facturación de 502 millones de euros en 2009. Estados Unidos ha pasado a ser su primer mercado, aportando más del 35% del beneficio bruto operativo (ebitda), que se ha más que duplicado desde 2006, hasta los 168 millones de euros obtenidos en 2009.
Con estos datos, Parques Reunidos ha pasado a ser el tercer mayor grupo de ocio del mundo, por detrás Disney and Merlin, owner of London's wheel and is controlled by another fund, Blackstone.
The British private equity firm Candover defoliated Daisy future participation in United Parks , which, as it looks, could pass for sale to another group, or by an eventual IPO.
For now, both ways seem open. No candidate missing for a possible buyout (venture capital firms as Apollo, Carlyle and Providence are interested in becoming the operator of theme parks, the third largest in the world), while the option of a public offering on the stock market has positive Previous Amadeus, whose shares rose by 18% since April, in contrast to the irregular behavior of the markets overall.
One can imagine that the path will eventually choose one that will lead to greater gains in realizing the divestiture. The struggle between the candidate groups reaches interesting levels: one speaks of initial offers of around 2,000 million euros.
is more than double that paid at the time by Candover (935 million), but we must not forget that United Parks has undergone a process of internationalization and growth rather than striking the hand, precisely, the British investment firm (with 69 entertainment complexes currently , its size has tripled since 2007). Candover
must now decide whether the deals shuffled meet your expectations or if you prefer to test the market that despite the favorable regard of Amadeus, is not the most propitious moment.