Six Flags-Cedar Fair merger set to be completed soon

Six Flags Entertainment Corporation and Cedar Fair, the parent company of Carowinds, announced Tuesday that the merger of the companies is expected to be complete by July 1.

Six Flags shareholders voted to approve the merger in March. If approved by the Department of Justice, the merger would bring the Six Flags theme parks into the same company as Cedar Fair properties, including Virginia's Kings Dominion, Ohio's Cedar Point and Carowinds, the largest theme park in the Carolinas. The new company, which will be known as Six Flags Entertainment Corporation, will be headquartered in Charlotte with "significant" finance and administrative operations in Cedar Fair's base of Sandusky, Ohio.

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