Sale Details for Online Casino Software
Speculation earlier in the year concerning GigaMedia’s intent to sell part of
the business have proven true this week as the online casino gambling group
announced that the company is in the process of finalizing the sale of 60
percent of the company’s interestes to Mangus Gaming, a very prominent software
development company. Mangus Gaming is a profitable and well known software
company that has long had strong expansion plans for the global gambling market.
Mangas handles the development and distribution of high quality software to
online casinos and other internet gambling companies and with a 60 percent
interest in GigaMedia gaming sites like Everest Poker and others, the new
combined interests will have a clear strength in the marketplace.
GigaMedia was particularly pleased with the joint ability of these two online
casino gambling groups to now create a highly competitive software platform that
can dominate niche sectors of the gaming market. Mangas paid out an initial $100
million USD in cash to GigaMedia for such a large share in the Hong Kong based
internet gambling group. That sum is just a part of the deal however, as there
are also further performance based targets and payments that will be made across
the next several years.
The final part of the agreement concerns the future of the GigaMedia online
casino gambling brand. Although Mangas Gaming now controls a huge portion of the
company, GigaMedia still holds the other 40 percent stake and will maintain that
share until 2013, at which time there is an option for GigaMedia to sell the
remaining shares to Mangas. |