Genting Casinos have announced the closure of one of their land based casinos in Derby. The Malaysian giant, who owns 35 land based casinos across the UK under the brands Genting Club and Genting Casino, currently has two land based casinos in the city – the oldest and the one under threat, Genting Casino Friargate, and the newer Genting Club Riverlights, which opened in 2011. Genting have announced plans to “consolidate” their Derby operations, and intend to offer the 41 staff a position at Riverlights instead.This is interesting given that Genting have a history of closing older casinos upon the opening or purchase and re-brand of newer sites. This has previously happened in Leicester, when the Electric Circus site was closed in June 2011 after the takeover of the newer ex-Mint casino location, and this current news from Derby is likely to have current Genting employees in Birmingham quaking in their boots after the recent Super Casino announcement.
Whether Genting will choose to “consolidate” their Birmingham casino interests will undoubtedly be of concern to current employees, as there are currently three city centre Genting Casino and Clubs in the centre of the city. With the plans in place to build the new Super Casino complex, it would look likely that one or more of the existing Genting Casinos may be the victims of the new build. Despite Genting’s insistence that they do their best to re-house their employees in other sites, in larger cities where transport is more of a problem this is not always practically possible.
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Hmm, maybe they have better reason also why they are going to do the closure.
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