Cedar Fair Retains Korn/Ferry International to Assist With CEO Search

The Board of Directors of Cedar Fair Entertainment Company FUN today announced that it has retained Korn/Ferry International to assist the Company with the final phase of its previously announced and ongoing succession planning process. Among other things, Korn/Ferry will work with the special committee of independent directors of the Cedar Fair Board, which includes C. Thomas Harvie, David L. Paradeau and John M. Scott III, to identify and evaluate qualified candidates to succeed current Chief Executive Officer Dick Kinzel, whose employment agreement expires on January 2, 2012. This confidential process will include both internal and external candidates and is expected to be completed by the end of the second quarter of 2011.