Land Gaming Acquisitions
The landscape of the UK land gaming industry is changing this month as one of
the largest gaming organizations in the country, Praesepe plc has just announced
that the company will nearly double its size with the purchase of Beacon
Entertainment. Praesepe specializes in the land gaming sector in particular,
none of the current company interests expand into the online casino gambling
industry, but that does not mean that they are not interested in eventually
moving in that direction. The team working behind Praesepe has extensive
experience within the online casinos, so there is a thought that this major land
expansion is just one phase of a larger growth plan.
The Beacon Entertainment deal is worth a whopping GBP 45 million – that includes
the agreed purchase price of a mere GBP 5 million, and then Praesepe will assume
Beacon Entertainment’s current debt of GBP 40 million that is sitting in the UK
banks. That debt is quite significant, but Praesepe has so much experience in
the land and online casino gaming market that there is a strong assumption that
the company can turn around the profits and make Beacon’s assets function well
in the current marketplace as the two brands begin to serious synergize and
share technologies and gamers.
The companies anticipate that the synthesizing of the two companies will take
well over a year – in that amount of time though the two vast land and online
gaming companies will take stock of the individual assets and create a plan for
maximizing the profit margin once the two companies combine. |