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France – Arevian group making changes at three Omnium casinos bought last year
By Phil - 20 February 2023
More than six years after the takeover of the Dax and Jonzac casinos in New Aquitaine from the Barrière group, French casino entrepreneur Antoine Arevian bought the Omnium group and its three casinos: Salies du Salat (Haute-Garonne), Allègre-les-Fumades (Gard ), in the heart of the Cévennes, near Alès and Alet-les-Bains (Aude), near Carcassonne, last November. The deal brought bring the number of Arevian group establishments to 14. Since then the changes have been filtering onto the gaming floor and beyond.
The manager of the Allègre-les-Fumades casino said: “The group change has been effective since November. This translates into progressive changes in the gaming room, with the appearance of posters or logos of the Arevian group, but also the arrival of 11 new slot machines among the 75 in the casino.”
“The transition to our new colors is taking place little by little,” confirmed Sébastien Marron, director of the Alet-les-Bains casino. “The billboards around the casino have been modified, as have the communication posters inside the establishment.”
The VIP cards, still in the colors of Omnium, will be changed soon and the front of the casino, whose concession runs until 2026, will be modified in 2024. On the gaming side, the Aude casino has brought in 12 new Aristocrat, EGT, Novomatic and Light & Wonder slot machines with six other models to be added soon.
In Salies du Salat, the takeover of the casino was accompanied by the appointment of a new director, Julien Onillon, who prebiously worked for the Jonzac casino in Charente-Maritime. The Allègre-les-Fumades casino occupied, in 2020-2021, 94th place in the French ranking of casinos with a gross gaming revenue of €4.06m. Salies du Salat was in 97th place in this same ranking, with a GGR of €3.9m. As for Alet-les-Bains, it occupies 180th place in this ranking, with a GGR of €1.13m.
