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- Merlin theme park group eyes listing
- Merlin Entertainments, the Blackstone-owned theme park group whose assets include Madame Tussauds, Legoland, and the London Eye, is preparing a stock market flotation, setting the stage for a flurry of UK listings in the new year. The planned share offer, which would be the first big listing on the London...
- News items 2009-10-24
- Investors buy Legoland parks.(LEGO Systems Inc. sells Legoland parks to Blackstone Capital Partners and Merlin Entertainments)(Brief Article)
- Lego Co. is cashing in some of the equity of its Legoland parks to focus on its core products of plastic building blocks and related toys. Lego of Billund announced July 13 that it formed a new business with Blackstone Capital Partners and Merlin E...
- Research articles 2005-07-25
- Legoland owner buys Tussauds for 1.0 billion pounds
- LONDON AFP — Merlin Entertainments Group, the owner of the Legoland theme parks, announced Monday that it had reached a deal to take control of The Tussauds Group for 1.028 billion pounds in cash. Merlin, controlled by US investment fund Blackstone Group, has agreed to pay Dubai International Capital...
- Research articles 2007-03-05
- Globalisation—an emerging trend in leisure?
- The Blackstone Group and Clear Channel Entertainment, have at least two things in common. Both are US-based firms, and both now hold major stakes in the UK leisure sector; the former already controls about a quarter of the cinema market and the latter, through its recent purchase of Mean Fiddler,...
- Research articles 2005-05-01
- Awash In Hilton Debt, Blackstone Is Getting Back To Basics
- After a solid year in which its valuation more than doubled, private equity giant Blackstone Group has been taking a beating in recent weeks. Blackstone's huge position in Hilton Hotels has saddled it with a chunk of hard-to-manage debt: so much so that some analysts expect the...
- Blog posts 2009-10-28
- Need to know: Havas bond ... BAA loss ... SAP sales weak ...
- View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics House prices: Figures from the Land Registry showed that house prices in England and Wales rose by 0.9 per cent in September, with the average price of a property now 5.6 per cent lower than in September last year. German inflation:...
- News items 2009-10-28
- Need to know: Unite joint venture ... SAS job cuts ... Swisscom profits rise ...
- View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics Unemployment: Official data showed that nearly one million young people are out of work as unemployment hit a 14-year high. More than 700,00 18 to 24-year-olds and 206,000 16 to 17-year-olds are jobless. Inflation: Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of...
- News items 2009-08-12
- IFA 2009: Blu-ray Disc Association unclear on 3D standard
- While 3D TV looks like it is going to be the talk of IFA 2009 this year, following the earlier speculation about Sony's big announcements at the show , there is still little clarity as to what the tech standard for 3D in the home needs to be....
- News items 2009-09-02
- Need to know: Conygar sale ... Cadbury campaign ... MAN fines ...
- View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics Interest rates: The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee kept interest rates on hold at a record low of 0.5 per cent and stuck to its plan of buying £200 billion of gilts and corporate bonds by next February. Mortgages: The...
- News items 2009-12-10
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