Jul14th

Dan Snyder runs another company into the ground

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Dan Snyder Smug.jpgNot content with reducing the once-proud Washington Redskins to an annual under-achieving joke, Dan Snyder has begun running other companies into the ground. Witness Six Flags, a theme park company that can’t get enough people inside its theme parks.

Snyder owns 6% of Six Flags and several years ago began putting his own people into management positions. The company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

He became chairman three and a half years ago, installing new managers to turn round a company that hadn’t posted an annual profit since 1998.

It had losses of $558.8 million in the two years since Synder became chairman.

What has Snyder done to help the company get out from under its $2.4 billion debt load? The answer is so typical of Snyder it’s actually quite elegant: Snyder had Six Flags start a line of kiddie hair salons called Rollercoaster Cuts

“Rollercoaster Cuts clients (kids only) will be treated like royalty from the moment they enter the brightly colored salon boutique…This state-of-the-art design features a 22″ flat panel TV in each station. Children will be engaged and amused as they are fully immersed into a Six Flags experience by watching Six Flags TV or riding one our virtual Six Flags’ roller coasters making it easy and fun for stylists to work on children’s hair.”

Not exactly the sort of cuts the company needed, I guess.
As if killing Six Flags customers wasn’t bad enough…

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