Great City Attractions

In 2009, Great Wheel Corporation merged with World Tourist Attractions, to operate as Great City Attractions,[4] claiming at that time to be "the world's largest operator of Observation Wheels."

[6] Early in 2011 the assets of WTA Global Holdings were bought out of administration for £230,000[7] by Great City Attractions.

[8] A further wheel in Manchester had been dismantled in April 2012 and transported to Edinburgh, only to prove too large to gain access to its new site.

Both wheels were owned by Shipley Investments Ltd. of Dudley, who had rented them to Great City Attractions, and who had then repossessed them prior to the administrators being called in.

[10] In January 2013 it was reported that the British-based Ferris wheels previously operated by Great City Attractions Global, which included the Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, Plymouth, and York wheels,[11] had been purchased for an undisclosed sum by Dubai-based Freij Entertainment International, and would be operated by its Staffordshire-based[12] UK operations arm Wheels Entertainments Ltd.[13][14] For other quiescent (incomplete, delayed, stalled, cancelled, failed, or abandoned) proposals, see: Ferris wheel#Quiescent proposals