Six Flags Responds to Red Zone's Misleading Statement on Consent Deadline; There is No near-Term Deadline
November 11 2005 - 6:58PM
Business Wire
Six Flags, Inc. (NYSE: PKS) issued the following statement
responding to Red Zone's press release issued earlier today: If Dan
Snyder wants to "set the record straight," perhaps he should start
with himself. Snyder's latest diatribe has one obvious purpose --
to rush Six Flag stockholders to judgment. Apparently Snyder hopes
to propel our stockholders over his consent goal line, but Snyder
has tripped himself up this time. In his zeal to disparage the
board and management of Six Flags, Snyder says: "Management...won't
tell you who is bidding or for how much until after the deadline
for you to submit your consent has conveniently passed." The fact
is that no deadline for consents has been announced AND SNYDER
CONTROLS THE DEADLINE. In a consent process, the "deadline" for
submission of consents is the 60th day after the date of the
earliest dated consent submitted to the Company. So far, NO
consents have been submitted. Snyder has the ability to coordinate
with those stockholders wishing to consent regarding when their
consents are dated. Moreover, even if a "deadline" were to be set
in Snyder's current consent solicitation, he is completely free to
commence a new solicitation at ANY TIME. Snyder is once again
demonstrating that he is afraid to permit the sale process to
proceed to completion. Six Flags board and management have been
open about the auction process timetable. They have publicly
announced that they are targeting the receipt of final bids for
early December and expect to have a transaction to recommend by the
end of the month. There is NO "deadline" for the submission of
consents before this time frame -- and if there were, Snyder has
complete ability to make it irrelevant. If Snyder wants to set the
record straight, he should start by explaining the meaning of false
deadlines. While Red Zone now conveniently states that they will
support a Board resolution to bring a credible bid to stockholders
for their approval, they have been vociferously opposed to the sale
process and have asserted that now is not the time to sell Six
Flags. Six Flags remains confident that it will be presenting an
attractive transaction to stockholders well in advance of any real
deadline for the consent process. There is no need for Six Flags
stockholders to act precipitously and give their consent before the
results of the sale process are known. If stockholders have been
misled by Snyder or wish to see the results of the sale process
before they make a decision, we urge them not to sign Red Zone's
white consent card or, if they have previously signed a white
consent card, to revoke that consent by simply signing, dating and
mailing the BLUE Consent Revocation Card immediately. Six Flags,
Inc. is the world's largest regional theme park company. In
response to the tender offer by Red Zone, if and when commenced,
Six Flags will file with the SEC its recommendation to stockholders
on Schedule 14D-9 regarding the tender offer and any amendments
thereto. Investors and security holders are advised to read Six
Flags' Solicitation/ Recommendation Statement on Schedule 14D-9
when it is filed and becomes available because it will contain
important information. Investors and security holders may obtain a
free copy of the Solicitation/Recommendation Statement on Schedule
14D-9 (when it is filed and becomes available) free of charge at
the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Six Flags, Inc. also will provide
a copy of these materials without charge on its website at
www.sixflags.com. Forward Looking Statements: The information
contained in this news release, other than historical information,
consists of forward-looking statements within the meaning of
Section 27A of the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Securities
Exchange Act. These statements may involve risks and uncertainties
that could cause actual results to differ materially from those
described in such statements. These risks and uncertainties
include, among others, the costs of reviewing and responding to the
unsolicited offer and consent solicitation, and other impacts of
the proposed offer on Six Flags' operations. Although Six Flags
believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking
statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such
expectations will prove to have been correct. Important factors,
including factors impacting attendance, such as local conditions,
events, disturbances and terrorist activities, risks of accidents
occurring at Six Flags' parks, adverse weather conditions, general
economic conditions (including consumer spending patterns),
competition, pending, threatened or future legal proceedings and
other factors could cause actual results to differ materially from
Six Flags' expectations. Reference is made to a more complete
discussion of forward-looking statements and applicable risks
contained under the captions "Cautionary Note Regarding
Forward-Looking Statements" and "Business - Risk Factors" in Six
Flags' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
2004, which is available free of charge on Six Flags' website at
www.sixflags.com
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