Anheuser-Busch Sold to European company InBev

[w00dland]

A couple of days ago, European Beer company (Think Becks) InBev bought out Busch for $52 billion.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= ... fer=europe

They mentioned getting rid of "Non essential assets."

The question for us: Whats gonna happen to Busch's parks? BGE is my favorite park.

[saylorman47]

Maybe, if they decide to sell the parks , Six Flags could buy Shiekra and Griffon cheap and give us one of them and give SFOG one to make up for our lost Vu's.

Haha JK

[Coaster Justin]

I think it could get sold to Merlin Entertainments. If you don't know who they are they own:

- All Legoland Parks
- Gardaland Theme Park in Italy
- 1/2 of Universal Orlando
- Thorpe Park in the UK
- Chessington in the UK
- Heide Park in Germany
- Alton Towers in the UK

So since they have experience with Animals and Families (AND MOST IMPORTANTLY DEEP POCKETS!!!) They could acquire all the Busch Parks.

[SheiKra13]

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No, this like ruined my day.
I love BGA, it was where i first rode a BIG roller coaster, Montu.

[BP317]

With the strong euro and crappy dollar dont be surprised to see many more traditionally American companies be bought out by European companies for a steal.

Theres really no American theme park chains that are in a position to buy parks right now so maybe they will be bought by a European chain.

[DejaVuGurl1203]

Oh my gosh, I've been wanting to go to both BGA and BGE for the longest time. I hope they stay for a while so I can visit. Heh.

[Jcoaster95]

Anheuser-Busch owns all sea world parks, so I think the parks will be fine, with the new B&M flying coaster opening next year.

[Coastermonkey61]

I doubt the parks are affected any.