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LAWRENCE HO, CO-PRÉSIDENT DE L’OPÉRATEUR Melco Crown Entertainment basé à Macao, cherche à ouvrir un casino en République de Géorgie. Selon un classement de la bourse de Hong Kong, Monsieur Ho espère réaliser 50 millions de dollars US à travers la vente des parts via une entité ad hoc à travers sa société chinoise de loterie MelcoLot Limited.
STATION CASINOS, PREMIER OPÉRATEUR À proposer légalement des jeux de casino en ligne aux États- Unis, arrête ses activités de poker en ligne, Ultimate Gaming, au Nevada, déclarant à ce sujet que ces activités avaient man- qués leurs objectifs financiers.
GAMEACCOUNT NETWORK A SIGNÉ UN ACCORD AVEC Spin Games, basé à Reno, afin d’intégrer le serveur de jeu dis- tant Spin Games (RGS) et de lancer son portfolio de jeux HTML5 de simulation au niveau national aux États-Unis ainsi qu’une série de jeux d’argent réel sur Internet sur certains marchés régulés.
LA COMMISSION DE SURVEILLANCE DES JEUX DE hasard du Nevada a accordé au groupe Blackstone, une entité privée d’investissements directs, une licence pour le rachat du Cosmopolitan Casino de Las Vegas. Le groupe Blackstone a déclaré en mai qu’il souhaitait procéder à l’acquisition du Cosmopolitan de la Deutsche Bank basée en Allemagne pour un montant de 1,73 milliards de dollars US.
LA FILIALE DÉTENUE À 75% PAR CENTURY CASINOS a été sélectionnée par Horse Racing Alberta (HRA) pour exploiter le réseau de paris mutuels hippiques à distance dans le Sud de l’Alberta à partir de début de 2015.
AU COLORADO, GAMING LABORATORIES International (GLI) a emménagé dans de nouveaux locaux de 40 000 pieds carrés à Wheat Ridge, au Colorado. Les nou- veaux locaux sont pleinement opérationnels depuis le 1er décembre.
AQUIS CASINO ACQUISITIONS, LA SOCIÉTÉ DERRIÈRE le pari de construire un projet spectaculaire de casino intégré à un complexe de loisirs à Cairns, en Australie, est en passe d’achever sa prise de contrôle de Canberra Casino qui devrait intervenir autour de Noël après avoir obtenu une baisse du prix de vente de 3 millions de dollars US.
MARIE STEPHENS PROPERTIES A PRÉSENTÉ LES plans d’un hôtel-casino d’un coût de 250 millions de dollars australiens qui devrait avoir la forme d’une perle géante et être conçu pour flotter devant la « Gold Coast » en Australie.
GENTING HONG KONG EST SUR LE POINT D’INVESTIR 117,2 millions de dollars US dans un joint-venture détenu à parts égales par le promoteur immobilier chinois Landing International Development afin d’exploiter une espace de jeux à l’hôtel Regency sur l’île sud-coréenne de Jeju.
EZUGI A LANCÉ SON STUDIO DE CASINO EN DIRECT avec l’un des plus importants groupes du Cambodge, la société Dai Long Company, propriétaire et opérateur du casino et complexe de loisir « Grand Dragon ».
LE GROUPE CROWN DE JAMES PACKER FAIT FACE À une nouvelle série d’obstacles dans sa quête d’ouvrir un casino de 400 millions de dollars US au Sri Lanka suite aux déclara- tions du Président du pays menaçant d’imposer de nouvelles taxes sur les jeux en cas de victoire aux prochaines élections de janvier.
3 4 NEW BILL TO SAVE AC’S LAST EIGHT
Last minute taxation strategies proposed to save Atlantic City’s remaining eight casinos as unemployment rockets New Jersey - Operations
New Jersey State Senate President Steve Sweeney and former mayor Senator James Whelan have presented a series of bills trying to revive Atlantic City’s eight remaining casinos. The plan is to cut property taxes by 28 to 43 per cent for the casino sector, which has seen four of its 12 gaming floors shut this year.
The bills would allow operators to pay a collective $150m in lieu of property taxes for the next two years. The contribution from each casino would be determined based on the size of real estate each casino owns, the number of hotel rooms and annual gambling revenue.
It would also redirect an alternative casino invest- ment tax, currently used for redevelopment proj- ects, to pay $25m to $30m of Atlantic City’s debt in each of the next 15 years. It would also eradicate the Atlantic City Alliance, the marketing agency that spends $30m a year to promote the resort to other regions of the US.
Kevin Ortzman, President of the Casino Association of New Jersey: “Atlantic City needs this type of stabilisation, which is critical to main-
US The International Association of Gaming Regulators (IAGR) has announced its Officers/ Trustees at the 2014 Annual Business Meeting held in Philadelphia, US in conjunction with its annual conference. Ms. Birgitte Sand of Denmark was inducted as President during the association’s conference in Philadelphia. Ms. Sand is the Director of the Danish Gambling Authority. Mr. Bheki Mlambo of South Africa was inducted as Vice President of IAGR, Treasurer A.G. Burnett and Secretary Trude FeldeIn addition, four new Trustees were elected to the Board.
tain the thousands of jobs and investment dollars in the market and enable further diversification to stimulate growth.”
Unemployment has increased to 11 per cent, twice the national average.
The Taj Mahal was to become Atlantic City’s fifth casino to shut down in December, though last minute plans were afoot as G3 went to press for owner Carl Icahn to strike a deal with the union representing about a third of its 3,000 workers. If the Taj does close it would follow The Atlantic Club, the Showboat, Revel and Trump Plaza.
Whilst October’s figures were down slightly com- pared to last year’s figures, the third quarter as a whole saw GGR increase by 7.2 per cent. The absence of large losses generated by Revel and The Atlantic Club certainly helped.
Matt Levinson, Chairman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission, commented that the remaining casinos are starting to stabilise. “Seven of the eight casinos reported increases in October, a sign that gaming revenues are starting to sta- bilise while non-gaming revenues are growing,” he said. “Five of the properties reported double digit increases including two; Golden Nugget and Tropicana,that were up by more than 50 per cent. We have come through difficult days, but the city clearly is transforming into a new full-scale resort.”
GameAccount Network signs deal with Spin Games for NJ
NEW JERSEY GameAccount Network has signed an agreement with Reno-based Spin Games to integrate the Spin Games remote gaming server (RGS) and launch their HTML5 games portfolio for Simulated Gaming nationwide in the US and real money Internet gaming in selected regulated markets.
Spin Games has a wide portfolio of HTML5 mobile-optimised games within its RGS including video slots, video poker and keno vari- ants widely recognisable to casino patrons in the US.
Dermot Smurfit, CEO of GameAccount Network comment- ed: “Spin Games has developed a
strong mobile-first portfolio of HTML5 games content including a wide range of video poker, slots and keno likely to appeal to casino patrons online. As our first RGS integration for Simulated Gaming in the US, we’re delighted to dis- tribute Spin Games’ gaming con- tent across our growing network of major US casino operators engaged in offering Simulated Gaming to their casino patrons.”
Kent Young, CEO of Spin Games commented: “GameAccount has deployed its Internet system for various major casinos in the US, into diverse regulated real money Internet markets including New Jersey, and represents a com- pelling distribution opportunity.”
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