Peak Resorts

Peak Resorts
Public
Traded as NASDAQ: SKIS
Website https://www.peakresorts.com/

Peak Resorts is a publicly owned Wildwood, Missouri-based company that operates ski resorts in the Midwest and the Northeast United States.

The company was founded in 1977 by Tim Boyd, two years after graduating the University of Missouri when he bought the Wildwood Golf Course in the suburban St. Louis, Missouri community of Wildwood, Missouri for $250,000 with owner financing. In 1982 he added a ski resort (that would become Hidden Valley Ski Area). Shortly thereafter he opened a ski-resort in suburban Kansas City, Missouri at Weston, Missouri (Snow Creek Ski Resort).[1]

The company continued to expand owning Paoli Peaks in Paoli, Indiana; Boston Mills and Brandywine in Peninsula, Ohio. In 2002 it expanded with Crotched Mountain in Bennington, New Hampshire. In addition it has long term leases on Jack Frost and Big Boulder ski areas in Blakeslee, Pennsylvania in the Poconos as well as Mad River Mountain in Valley Hi, Ohio.[1][2]

In 2007, the company nearly tripled its revenue with the acquisition of Mount Snow in Vermont and Attitash in New Hampshire from the financially troubled American Skiing (which was owned by Oak Hill Capital Partners, a private equity company). The acquisition increased Peak Resorts ski visitors from 1 million to 1.7 million and revenue of $85 million.[1]

On October 21, 2010, the company announced it had entered into a purchase and sale agreement for Wildcat Mountain Ski Area, its third New Hampshire holding. Wildcat now operates as a sister resort to Attitash under the two mountains one ticket promotion allowing skiers and riders to alternate between resorts while using the same lift ticket.

While previously privately owned, Peak Resorts shares began trading on the NASDAQ Global Market on November 21, 2014, under the ticker symbol "SKIS." Its initial IPO which saw an offering of 10,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $9.00 per share closed 9 days later on December 1, 2014.

On November 30, 2015, the company announced its intention to purchase Hunter Mountain adding its first New York mountain to its stable of ski resorts. The acquisition was completed on January 7, 2016, in an all-cash deal of $35 million, plus the assumption of two capital leases estimated at approximately $1.8 million.

Peak Pass For the 2016/17 ski season, Peak Resorts debuted a new season pass offering, named Peak Pass, that linked its seven Northeast resorts: Mount Snow in Vermont; Attitash, Wildcat, and Crotched Mountain, in New Hampshire; Hunter Mountain in New York; Jack Frost and Big Boulder in Pennsylvania.

List of ski areas

Ski Resorts owned and/or operated by Peak Resorts:

East

Midwest

References

  1. 1 2 3 Boyd's ski resort revenue climbs to $85 million - St. Louis Business Journal - February 23, 2007
  2. ↑ Detailed Logan County Map Archived February 2, 2015, at the Wayback Machine., Logan County Engineer's Office. Accessed 2009-01-27.
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