The executive said in a statement to Diario Financiero that all the financial restructuring carried out by the group is now complete and they now have the financing necessary for the new projects that will be carried out over the next two years.
When it comes to the Hotel Enjoy de Punta del Este, Martínez said that part of the restructuring of car parking is already complete, room renovation had been carried out and that the company has built a new swimming pool. However the building of the new towers will not begin this year.
Martínez said that casino visitor numbers had been impacted by the current economic downturn in both Brazil and Argentina. However, the company was strengthening its plans to attract VIP players to the casino from Europe and the United States. According to Martinez, now that the tender over the municipal licences had been resolved the company will invest in the newly licensed casinos. Enjoy won the four tenders in which they competed, Viña del Mar, Pucón, Coquimbo and Puerto Varas and was able to increase the duration of the licenses from seven to fourteen years.
In August 2017, US based private equity firm Advent International announced that it had signed an agreement with Enjoy. Advent informed about its plan to invest as much as US$118 million in the casinos in Coquimbo, Viña del Mar, Pucón and Puerto Varas in the next two to three years, according to a presentation to investors earlier this month.
Source: GMB / G3 Newswire
