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HFE sells Ride the Ducks Branson to Ripley's
« on: December 19, 2017, 10:01:08 PM »
Ripley's Believe It or Not is the new owner of Ride the Ducks Branson; it was sold by HFE. More details from Branson Tri-Lakes News:

http://bransontrilakesnews.com/news_free/article_641ca36c-e4f1-11e7-ae90-9348a8473de0.html

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Re: HFE sells Ride the Ducks Branson to Ripley's
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2017, 11:50:12 PM »
Interesting that they just sold the Branson franchise and not the entire chain
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Re: HFE sells Ride the Ducks Branson to Ripley's
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2017, 08:06:45 AM »
Interesting that they just sold the Branson franchise and not the entire chain

yeah. Really odd.  Wonder why they split it off like that.
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Re: HFE sells Ride the Ducks Branson to Ripley's
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2017, 08:37:35 AM »
Yeah, this seems out of left field. Then again, the RTD chain has been kind of an albatross for HFEC in recent years with the barge collision and I think another incident where one sank in some other city? I thought the Branson one was their flagship though...

Perhaps it was a family thing where one of the Herschend family had control of it and decided to sell? I know there have been some odd business setups with the company before.

Wouldn't be surprised to see the rest of them sell off or shut down before long. They don't seem as popular as they used to be.

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Re: HFE sells Ride the Ducks Branson to Ripley's
« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2017, 07:50:00 PM »
Wow that is interesting.  Maybe they needed the money to pay for TT :)