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Travel | December 1, 2009

Blackstone completes theme park purchase, changes company name to SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment

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Orlando Theme Parks Examiner

On December 1, Blackstone Group completed its purchase of Busch Entertainment Corp. from beer maker Anheuser-Busch InBev. In the process, it dropped the Busch name, rechristening the company as SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment. The company will continue to run all the theme parks included in the deal, including SeaWorld in Orlando (pictured at right) and Busch Gardens in Tampa. The deal is widely speculated to be worth more than $2.5 billion.

The two Busch Gardens parks (there is a  second one in Virginia) will keep their names as park of a licensing agreement with InBev.

If you've never been to Busch Gardens, click here to learn more about it. SeaWorld in Orlando added a new roller coaster this year. Click here to read about it. Click here for holiday happenings at SeaWorld. To read more of my articles, click here.

Photo: Barb Nefer

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Barb Nefer lives in the thick of the Orlando attractions area. She has an annual pass to all the major theme parks from Disney and Universal to...

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