Posts Tagged ‘SIX FLAGS’

There Is Such a Thing as Bad PR for Dan Snyder

Poor guy can't even get his name spelled right.
The front page tease for a really kind story in today's Washington Post about Dan Snyder's run atop Six Flags (no mention amid all the turnaround talk that the company went another $134 million in the red in 2008) had the chairman of the board's name as [...]

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Dan Snyder's fiscally fisted theme park chain, Six Flags, just took another shot up the poop chute: The company was informed today that it has been kicked off the New York Stock Exchange.
Everybody but Jim Cramer has predicted the demise of Six Flags since Snyder put his management team in place and started raising the [...]

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Dan Snyder's juxtanothing theme park chain, Six Flags, is back in the news. For all the wrong reasons.
Snyder's sub-Mensa-esque brainchild, the network of stand-alone kiddie hair salons known as Six Flags Rollercoaster Cuts, opened its first outlet in West Hartford, Ct., and started hawking costly coif makeovers with dumbass names — The Glammy, Zoink, Big [...]

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Dan Snyder's contra-profitable theme park chain, Six Flags, hit another personal worst today.
At approximately 11:11 a.m. EST, Six Flags stock (SIX) traded at 15 cents a share. That's a penny less than its previous record.
So while banks and other biggies rallied this week, Snyder et al kept on keepin' on along the path to bankruptcy. [...]

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Dan Snyder's giga-screwed theme park chain, Six Flags, has more in common with the country's ailing financial institutions than their shared borderline insolvency. Jim Cramer boldly led investors toward Six Flags throughout its plunge, too.
Cramer's getting crushed by Jon Stewart, of course, for being so wrong so often about the health of Bear Stearns and [...]

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Dan Snyder's hyper-moribund theme park chain, Six Flags, has apparently misfollowed an accountant's directions.
Somebody must have told Snyder the company, which is more than $2 billion in debt, had to make cuts.
Instead of hacking away at line items in the budget, Snyder has decided to cut kids' hair.
Rumors on City Desk last week have since [...]

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This is so stupid, I can hardly type:
Dan Snyder's pseudo-afloat theme park chain, Six Flags, a company already balls deep in debt — we're talking BILLIONS OF DOLLARS of debt here — is apparently about to launch its own line of kiddie hair salons.
Snyder's burgeoning debacle-within-a-debacle will be called Rollercoaster Cuts and its tag line [...]

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Dan Snyder's post-prosperous theme park chain, Six Flags, is borrowing a page from the Redskins playbook in an attempt to return to its glory days.
Just as Snyder brought back Joe Gibbs in 2004 with the Redskins hitting bottom, Six Flags is pinning its future to the return of....Mr. Six!
There's been message board chatter about a [...]

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Dan Snyder's non-liquid theme park chain, Six Flags, has decided that if it's going to go down, it's going to go down tipsy.
In 2008, firms that were nowhere near as leveraged as Six Flags, which is anywhere from $2 billion to $3 billion-and-some-change in debt, tended to sign on for Chapter 11 protections or just [...]