Who owns Sky Zone?
Sky Zone is a Los Angeles-based company that operates indoor trampoline parks. The company is often erroneously credited with opening the first indoor trampoline park in 2004 and is controversial for the number of injuries that have occurred in its parks. Who owns Sky Zone? Sky Zone, founded in 2004, by entrepreneur Rick Platt, “launched…
Sky Zone is a Los Angeles-based company that operates indoor trampoline parks. The company is often erroneously credited with opening the first indoor trampoline park in 2004 and is controversial for the number of injuries that have occurred in its parks.
Who owns Sky Zone?
Sky Zone, founded in 2004, by entrepreneur Rick Platt, “launched our industry when it created the first indoor trampoline park almost 10 years ago. They have since grown to become the largest brand in the trampoline park market,” said Lawrence in the statement.
Back in 2015 when Sky Zone ranked No. 2 on the Franchise Times Fast & Serious list, Platt told me he credited his father, who had owned a scrap-metal business, for “having the guts” to invent the sport of Dodgeball on trampolines in the first place, and his board of directors, including two outside directors for keeping the company on track.
CircusTrix Holdings of Provo, Utah, bought Sky Zone, bringing the 195-unit trampoline park chain under its umbrella and changing the game for Jeff Platt, former CEO of Sky Zone. Platt is now president, reporting to Case Lawrence, founder, and CEO of CircusTrix. The investment adds both capital and new rules to the once-free-wheeling Sky Zone.
