Tag Archives: Pucón
Chile – Enjoy highlights ‘faster recovery speed’ as it holds onto Pucón licence
Chilean casino operator Enjoy has reported a loss of US$60.6m for the first half up until June, compared to a loss in2019 of US$117.8m, ‘reflecting a faster recovery speed than initially estimated.’ Revenues came in at US$30.8m, representing a fall of 70.71 per cent compared to the US$105.16m of 2020 due to the closure of…
Chile – Enjoy needs three year extension to relaunch four municipal licences
Chilean casino group Enjoy has said it needs at least a three year extension to launch four municipal casinos in Coquimbo, Viña del Mar, Pucón and Puerto Varas. It has lodged its request with the Superintendency of Gambling Casinos (SCJ) saying this is the ‘minimum period’ the casino sector needs to recover from the effects…
Chile – Enjoy files lawsuit against Sun Dreams over casino delays
Enjoy has filed a lawsuit before the Tribunal for the Defence of Free Competition (TDLC), against its competitor Sun Dreams, for possible acts of unfair competition. The conflict arose after Enjoy was awarded the 15-year license for the Pucón and Puerto Varas casinos once the tender for the municipal casinos was completed. “Fourteen months after…
Chile – Advent to invest US$118m in Enjoy’s casinos in Chile
Private equity investor Advent has announced plans to invest as much as US$118m in casinos in Chile with Coquimbo, Viña del Mar, Pucón and Puerto Varas all being revamped in the next two to three years. In August 2017, US-based private equity firm Advent International announced that it had signed an agreement with the Chilean…
Chile – Court accepts Sun Dreams’ appeal over Pucón licence
The legal dispute over the recently awarded municipal casino licences will now continue after an important decision made by a top court in Chile. The Santiago Appeals Court has accepted the appeal put forward by Sun Dreams against the Chilean Gaming Board (SJC) through which it seeks to challenge and reverse the decision to grant…
Chile – Sun Dreams disputes two municipal licence awards in court
Sun Dreams has now filed two appeals before the Santiago Appeals Court against the Chilean Gaming Board (SJC) through which it seeks to challenge and revert the decision to grant the licence to the casinos of Pucón and Puerto Varas to rival Enjoy. Sun Dreams argue that the resolutions of the SCJ are illegal. According…
Chile – SJC makes headway in licensing process for Chile’s municipal casinos
The Deciding Council of the Chilean Gaming Board (SJC) will meet this Friday to analyse the technical evaluation of the bids for the casino in Pucón in the head offices of the SJC. In addition, it may also analyse the technical bids put forward for the casinos in Viña del Mar, Coquimbo, Iquique and Puerto…
Chile – Enjoy and Sun Dreams both bid for licence in Pucón
Both Enjoy and Sun Dreams have entered the bidding process for the municipal licence for the casino located in Pucón. However, there were no bids for the municipal licences in Arica nor for the casino in Puerto Natales meaning that a new bidding process for these casinos will need to be initiated, according to a…
Chile – New deadline set for Chile’s municipal licences
The Chilean Gaming control Board (SCJ) has announced a new deadline for the presentation of the technical and economic bids for the municipal casinos in the municipalities of Arica, Pucón and Puerto Natales. The announcement was officially made public in Chile’s Diario Oficial (Chile’s Government Gazette) and sets the deadline as September 25, at 11…
