Genting To Close Derby Casino

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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Genting Casino Gets a New Home

The Genting Casino in Southport is set to get a new home after an announcement was made for work to be carried out on this land based casino. This New Genting Casino is part of the £30 million Waterfront development that Southport has received over the past few years and work to give Genting Casino in Southport a new home is scheduled to begin in September.

This refurbishment for Genting Casino Southport will cost in the region of £2 million and it will include the very latest in gaming technology.  In addition to that this new land based casino will have a terrace which will overlook the Marine Lake which customers will be able to enjoy inbetween games at the Genting Casino.  

Bosses of this new Genting Casino are hoping to open up their casino doors to customers in early 2013 and this Genting Casino will be situated on Southport’s Waterfront. This redevelopment to the Waterfront started a few years ago and before work finished on improving the Waterfront Genting Casino signed up to be part of the development.

Along with this new Genting Casino the Waterfront includes a Ramada Plaza Hotel which opened in October 2008 and also Fino’s restaurant.

Genting Casino is part of the Genting UK group who are currently one of the largest casino operators in the UK. They have in operation over 40 land based casinos from all across the UK and these include many London casinos, one of which is the Maxmis Casino Club London. 

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Mint Casino Bristol is Set to be Renamed

The Mint Casino in Bristol is set to be given a new name soon that will reflect its owner. The owner of the Bristol Mint Casino is Genting UK – a massive name in the casino industry and this Bristol Casino will soon become the Genting Casino Bristol.

This land based casino is situated on Portwall lane, Harbourside in Bristol and to celebrate the name change the Mint Casino Bristol is holding an event which all customers are welcome to attend.

On Friday 23^rd March the Mint Casino Bristol will become Genting Casino Bristol and from 9pm all customers (everyone is welcome) who take a trip to this land based casino will be greeted with a glass of bubbly, along with canapés and there will also be music from a Bristol due called MESA.

Paolo Nappolini is the general manager at the Mint Casino Bristol and he believes that despite changing its name many people in Bristol already known this casino offers a high level of care. Along with the name change the Mint Casino Bristol has improved their bar offers and has the latest slots and live gaming facilities. The improvements don’t stop there because this land based casino has also added private poker and Mah Jong games.

This Mint Casino Bristol is owned by the Genting UK plc group which owns and runs over 40 land based casino throughout the UK, which include several in London and Manchester. Having a large number of land based casinos means that Genting UK is the UK’s largest operator of casinos and it also has an online casino for players to use.

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UK Genting Casino Boss Says Gambling is too Scary for Him

There is no doubt that you will know the name Genting Casino, you will most likely have walked past any of the 44 Genting Casinos that are located around the UK and you would think that the majority of Genting Casino staff like playing a few casino games however that isn’t the case. The boss of UK Genting Casinos, Peter Brooks, has said recently that gambling it just too scary for him.

Peter Brooks hasn’t always worked in the gaming industry. He previously worked as a solicitor for 25 years but then decided to go into business and as the say the rest is history. Although Mr Brooks doesn’t gamble himself his aim is to modernise the casino industry. He wants to ban the reputation this industry has had over the decades and wishes to truly update and reform the casino world.

There are 44 Genting Casinos located throughout the UK and the newest land based one is the Riverlights Casino which opened recently in Derby. One of the Genting Casino’s – Palm beach in central London has the exact casino feel that Mr Brooks is planning on running in other UK Genting Casinos.

It appears to passers-by from the outside as a modern bar with relaxing atmosphere – no one would know it was as casino. It isn’t until you walk through to the back that you are greeted with roulette wheels, slots machine and card tables. Having a casino layout such as this makes the feel of visiting a casino less daunting and it means only the people that actually want to play some casinos games do so if they wish to.

If this plan by Peter Brooks is successful we could see UK Genting Casinos become friendlier and move to becoming more female-dominated rather than male.

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