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Feld Entertainment history
Feld Entertainment company history timeline
Broadway producers Cy Feuer and Ernest H. Martin sued in December 1967 to stop the sale.
Kenneth Feld joined the business in 1970 after finishing college.
Israel Feld died in 1972, and Irvin's son Kenneth entered the business.
Irvin & Kenneth Feld Productions in 1979 purchased from Chicago-based Bill Wirtz the Holiday on Ice and Ice Follies for $12 million.
By 1980, the company produced 10 circus and ice show TV specials.
In 1981, Ken Feld started the Beyond Belief show at the New Frontier Hotel and Casino.
The Felds bought the company back in 1982 for $22.8 million.
Kenneth Feld becomes the sole producer of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey following the passing of Irvin Feld in 1984.
Circus World was sold to Arizona developer James Monaghan in 1984.
By 1987, Ringling Brothers was the only circus in the United States that still traveled by railroad, though there were some two dozen smaller circuses in the country that traveled by truck.
Ringlings' third touring company, Gold Unit, premiered on July 1, 1988, in Japan.
In 1988, the circus toured Japan for the first time as a 100-animal and 160-performer act.
The company developed a third circus unit in 1994 in order to take the show abroad.
In October 1996, Irvin & Kenneth Feld Productions, Inc. changed its name to Feld Entertainment, Inc.
In 1996 Kenneth Feld hired a president and chief operating officer from outside the industry to help oversee the firm's future growth.
CEO Kenneth Feld mused in a November 8, 1999, Fortune feature about expanding the Feld brand into restaurants, television, and the Internet. 'We'd like to be there every day,' he said, rather than as a once-a-year event.
Kaleidoscape was launched to rave reviews and took the 1999 Golden Clown Award at the International Circus Festival in Monte Carlo.
1999: Barnum's Kaleidoscape opens.
Nicole was hired into the family business in 2001 and became the first female producer of the Ringling Bros.
In 2001, Ken Feld began gifting shares of Feld Entertainment to his three daughters Nicole, Alana and Juliette Feld.
Alana also signed on in 2003.
FE started producing Disney Live! shows in June 2004 with Winnie the Pooh in the United Kingdom.
Alana produced the first Doodlebops Live! in 2006.
In 2006, Nicole was a vice president in charge of the circus.
In 2007, Nicole and Alana were elevated to executive vice president of the company.
The company signed a 10-year agreement with Disney Live Family Entertainment for Disney on Ice, Disney Live and other Disney productions in August 2008.
Feld Motor Sports launched its first new arena-based freestyle motocross touring production, Nuclear Cowboyz, in 2010.
In January 2012, the company purchased Palmetto Corporate Center, a former Siemens Corp. complex in Ellenton, Florida, and plans to move most of its various operations and its world headquarters there over a five-year period starting with its worldwide production center.
Feld Motor Sports sold the IHRA to IRG Sports + Entertainment in 2012.
Juliette Feld was promoted to chief operating officer of the corporation in February 2016.
Citing low attendance rates, Feld Entertainment announced the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus would close after their final performance on May 21, 2017.
Feld and Universal Brand Development has agreed to develop multiple properties into mobile pop-up attractions in April 2018.
At the IAAPA Attractions Expo 2018, Feld offered two concepts at the expo, a Monster Jam roller coaster and Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus interactive stations.
The first being DreamWorks Trolls: The Experience starting its tour in the third quarter 2018 in New York.
In September 2019, Feld and Universal will start its joint touring show, Jurassic World Live Tour, in Columbus, Ohio.
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