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DREAMS Y SUN INTERNATIONAL HAN ANUNCIADO que han suscrito un principio de acuerdo para fusionar sus operaciones en Latinoamérica como parte de los planes de Sun International de expandirse hacia el mercado del juego latinoamericano.
EL SUBSECRETARIO DE PREVENCIÓN DEL DELITODE Chile, Antonio Frey, ha anunciado que su departamento está trabajando mano a mano con el Ministerio de Finanzas sobre una ley para prohibir o regular el uso de máquinas tragaperras en los denominados «casinos de barrio». La iniciativa se remi- tirá al Parlamento en el tercer trimestre de este mismo año.
EL ÓRGANO REGULADOR DEL JUEGO EN MÉXICO, SEGOB (Ministerio del Interior), ha confirmado que hay un proyecto en marcha para construir complejos de casino al esti- lo Las Vegas en tres zonas: la Riviera Maya, Acapulco y Baja California.
SIMON FALIC, EMPRESARIO ESTADOUNIDENSE Y miembro de un grupo de inversores que participa en la con- strucción de un Hard Rock Hotel y Casino en Paraguay, se ha reunido con el Presidente, Horacio Cartes, para ponerle al día sobre el avance del proyecto. Tras la reunión, el Presidente y el señor Falic anunciaron la construcción de un complejo a gran escala en el este del país, que concentrará una inversión de entre 70 y 80 millones de dólares y que podría ponerse en marcha antes de que acabe el año.
LA LOTERÍA DE LA PROVINCIA DEL CHACO HA decidido retomar el proceso de concesión de la explotación de casinos y máquinas tragaperras dentro de la provincia, sobre la base de una sentencia del Tribunal Supremo sobre el terreno que «constituye la decisión definitiva» sobre el asunto.
EL DIRECTOR DEL FIDEICOMISO DE PROMOCIÓN Turística de la Riviera Maya, Darío Flota Ocampo, ha afirmado públicamente su oposición a los planes de construir casinos a gran escala en el Caribe mexicano. Según Flota Ocampo, la Riviera Maya ya es ahora líder nacional en términos de ocu- pación hotelera, y los casinos no son el tipo de atracción capaz de incrementar las cifras de turistas.
EURO GAMES TECHNOLOGY ACABA DE FINALIZAR su primera instalación en Puerto Rico a través de su socio dis- tribuidor Reel Games. Según el acuerdo, en el Sheraton Old San Juan Hotel & Casino se instalaron máquinas tragaperras P-24/24 Up de la serie Premier de EGT conectadas al sistema de jackpots Vega de EGT.
LAS MÁQUINAS EN SALAS DE TRAGAPERRAS SON EL sector del juego con un mayor crecimiento en la provincia de Córdoba. En 2007 se apostaron 57 millones de pesos en salas tragaperras en todo el territorio de Córdoba. A finales de 2014, esta cifra había subido hasta los 256 millones (unos 20 mil- lones de dólares), lo que supone una subida de más del cuá- druple en los últimos ocho años.
EL MINISTERIO DEL INTERIOR DE FRANCIA HA DADO luz verde a la inauguración de un nuevo casino en la costa de Morbihanaise, en Vannes, de modo que SBEC, la operadora de casinos de Bretaña, ha recibido la aprobación para desarrollar la sexta licencia de la región.
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SUN AND DREAMS MERGER PLANNED
Dreams and Sun International are to merge their Latin American operations as Sun plans further market expansion
LatAm - Operations
Dreams and Sun International have announced that they have entered into a memorandum of understanding to merge their Latin American operations as part of Sun’s International plans to expand into the Latin American gaming market.
The Latin American operations of Sun International, including Monticello in Chile, Ocean Sun Casino in Panama City and a project near completion in Colombia, will be merged into Dreams in the deal which will see Sun International expanding its presence in the region. Dreams operates six casinos in Chile and it has recently expanded into Peru where it operates four smaller gaming establishments in Lima and has plans to expand further in the region.
Sun International said it had “previously stated its strategic intention to grow its Latin American portfolio of assets, which consists of Monticello in Chile, the Ocean Club Casino in Panama and a casino currently under development in Cartagena, Colombia that is expected to be operational in the first half of 2015. Sun International owns 100 per cent of the businesses in Panama and Cartagena and has recently increased its interest in Monticello to 99 per cent in order to have control over the strategic direction of these assets, includ- ing the possibility of merging them with others in order to create a more diverse and meaningful portfolio.”
Once complete the current shareholders of Dreams and Sun International will each own approximately 50 per cent of the combined entity. According to the press release, the company has been looking for a partner in Latin America for some time. Chile is a country that Dreams has a good understanding of, has an executive manage- ment team that comes from Latin America and has significant operational experience in the region as well as strong local shareholders. Dreams expan- sion strategy has also seen it grow in Peru, which
“is complementary” to Sun International’s expan- sion into Panama and Colombia.
From the standpoint of Dreams the merger at a stroke “fulfils its objective to be a regional leader in the casino and entertainment industry in the region and gives significant momentum to the company’s growth aspirations.”
The merger creates Latin America’s largest gaming group. The news could hail in a new era in Latin American gaming industry as the newly merged company seeks to make further inroads into the Chilean gaming market and expand into emerging markets such as Colombia and Peru both of which are benefiting from an increasingly regulated gaming market.
Chile seeks to tackle growth of ‘neighbourhood casinos’
CHILE The Undersecretary of Crime Prevention of Chile, Antonio Frey, has announced that his office is working in conjunction with the Ministry of Finance on a bill which would prohibit or reg- ulate the use of slots in so called neighbourhood casinos. The ini- tiative will be sent to parliament during the third quarter of this year.
“We will have a government position on the matter; pursuant to developing a bill which will allow us to have a look at both sides: either prohibition or regu- lation,” Mr. Frey said.
According to Frey, the initiative will be sent to parliament during the third quarter of this year once the advantages and disadvan- tages have been looked at close- ly. Frey said that the issue was a
complex one as when as the state does try to intervene and close down a slot parlour its actions are often appealed against in the local courts.
One of the priorities of the new bill would be first to establish a clear definition of what consti- tutes random and what consti- tutes skill, and also to increase the control mechanisms on slot machines operating outside casi- nos. One way to tackle the issue could, he said, be an online moni- toring of all slots in real time – a project which the University of Chile is now looking at.
Meanwhile Sebastián Valenzuela, the spokesman for the Association of Operators, Manufacturers and Importers of Electronic Entertainment an interest group for the SWP (Skill with Prizes) industry; (Fiden),
welcomed the move as regulation is “something we have been seeking for a long time.”
He added that one of the primary aims of the group was to make the distinction between machines outside of casinos and those slot machines in casinos clearer emphasising the fact that machines outside of casinos are not equipped with random gener- ators results (RNG). Part of the problem lies in the fact that while the machines in slot parlours may look like slot machines in casinos they operate differently as the prize in slot parlours depends on fixed sequence combinations as opposed to chance.
It is estimated that there could be as many as 150,000 slots located in parlours with a further 50,000 slots located in small businesses and shops in Chile. Known locally as ‘casinos of the people’ or ‘neighbourhood slots’ they have been able to grow so quickly as local governments have not drawn a clear line between slots and Skill with Prizes Machines.
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