The Looping Group was founded on January 31, 2011 as part of the takeover of seven amusement parks from the French " Compagnie des Alpes (CdA) ". On December 15, 2010, it announced its intention to sell seven amusement parks, including: The French Parc Bagatelle, the Grand Aquarium Saint-Malo, the Mini Châteaux and the Grand Aquarium de Touraine, as well as the Dutch Avonturenpark Hellendoorn, the British amusement park Pleasurewood Hills and the Aquaparc in Switzerland. The buyer and founder of the Looping Group was a consortium consisting of Laurent Bruloy and the investment company HIG European Capital Partners SAS, based in France. Laurent Bruloy was the managing director of the Aqualud adventure pool at the French seaside resort Le Touquet from 2005 to 2007 . After the takeover of the seven parks, the Compagnie des Alpes continued to hold a minority stake of 30 percent in the Looping Group, while the HIG consortium owned the remaining 70 percent. In 2014 the Compagnie des Alpes announced that it had sold its remaining 30 percent stake in the Looping Group to HIG Capital France. The parks had around 1.6 million visitors in the previous year. A year after the seven parks were taken over, there were almost 2 million visitors in the 2011 season. The Looping Group's 14 parks are now visited by an average of 3.6 million guests per year. The Looping Group's managing director has been Laurent Bruloy since 2011.
Further acquisitions
In May 2012, the Group acquired looping the amusement park Cobac Parc in Lanhélin in the French region of Brittany .
In January 2013 the Spanish Caixabank announced that the Spanish amusement park Isla Mágica would be sold to the Looping Group in April 2013.
In May 2015 the Compagnie des Alpes announced the sale of the Planète Sauvage zoo and the La Mer de Sable amusement park for 15.4 million euros to the Looping Group.
In January 2016, the Looping Group was sold by HIG Capital France to the Belgian investment company Ergon Capital Partners SA based in Brussels.
In April 2017 the Compagnie des Alpes announced the sale of the Sauerland amusement park Fort Fun Abenteuerland for seven million euros to the Looping Group.
In November 2017, the Looping Group acquired the Zoo de La Flèche in the Pays de la Loire region in western France with over 1,600 animals from around 160 animal species.
In December 2017, the 36-hectare Parque Aquático de Amarante water park in northern Portugal was taken over by the Looping Group.
Netherlands
Germany
Spain
Great Britain
Switzerland
Portugal
