Hedge Fund Manager Merger Creates the World's No 2 Visitor Attraction Company
Filed in archive Dealtalk by Alex Akesson on March 5, 2007
Some of the biggest brand names in the global theme park market today announced a partnership of two rapidly growing businesses, The Tussauds Group and Merlin Entertainments Group, making them the world's second biggest attractions operator after Disney.
Merlin Entertainments Group is known for theme parks such as Legoland, Sealife and several others. The company is controlled by hedge fund manager
Blackstone Group.On the merger with Merlin, international investment company Dubai International Capital LLC said, "Tussauds and Merlin are very complementary businesses and there is an obvious commercial logic in bringing them together."
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