Maybury Casino History
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The UK’s largest multi-channel casino operator.
The brand offers a range of popular casino table games, including roulette, blackjack, baccarat and poker as well as electronic roulette and slot machine games. The digital channel continues to gain scale and offers many popular games including its very popular live casino.
Grosvenor Casinos also operates one unbranded casino in Belgium.
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Maybury is an area on the western edge of Edinburgh, Scotland, near South Gyle and Ingliston, named after the civil engineer Sir Henry Maybury (1864–1943). Dominated by a major road junction, the most notable feature is the Maybury Roadhouse, opened in 1936 and one of Edinburgh's finest examples of Art Deco architecture. Casino industry leaders have warned that hundreds of jobs are on the line in Scotland as they urged the Scottish Government to change its current tiering restrictions.
Industry overview
Casinos in Great Britain offer a variety of traditional games of chance in a safe, social and highly regulated environment. Customers must be 18 years or older in order to play in a casino.
Staking levels are not capped (with the exception of electronic gaming machines) and are determined by the casino.
Under current legislation, the following activities must be offered under a 1968 Act casino license in Great Britain: casino table games (including American roulette, blackjack, stud poker, punto, banco, sic-bo and dice); electronic games (predominantely electronic roulette), gaming machines and card room games (including player-to-player poker and mah-jong). In addition, casinos typically include licensed bars and restaurants.
In Britain, due partly to restrictions on electronic gaming machines, the majority of casino revenue is generated by casino table games and their electronic equivalents.
Key people
Venues: |
Jonathon Swaine - Managing Director |
Debbie Husband – Operations Director |
Nigel Lewis – Director of Finance |
David Balls – Human Resources Director |
Richard Playle – Commercial Director |
Catrin White – Marketing Director |
Digital: |
Eitan Boyd – Managing Director |
James Boord – Chief Marketing Officer |
Liam Wallwork - Chief Operating Officer |
Judith Turner – Human Resources Director |
Jon Martin – Finance Director |
Darren Simms – Director of Operations Strategy |
Website
www.grosvenorcasinos.com
Apps
Casino
Live Casino
| Key facts | |
| Established | 1970 |
| Clubs* | 53 (52 in UK; 1 in Belgium) |
| Venues | |
| Revenue* | £353.2m |
| Operating profit* | £44.9m |
| Customer visits* | 6.5 million per year |
| Total spend per visit* | £54.9 |
| Digital | |
| Revenue* | £51.1m |
The owner of a major casino and bingo chain operator in Scotland has issued an urgent plea to Nicola Sturgeon to recategorise such venues under new lockdown restrictions – warning that otherwise its 16 sites north of the Border will be forced to close and put “thousands of jobs and livelihoods” at risk.
John O’Reilly is the chief executive of Rank Group, which he points out is the biggest casino operator (with its Grosvenor brand) and also the biggest bingo operator, with Mecca, in Scotland. North of the Border it has five casinos – including the Maybury in Edinburgh – and 11 bingo halls, and has had no Covid-19 cases, with 30,000 visits to its Scots Grosvenor venues alone.
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Additionally, Mark McCluskey, the operations manager at the Maybury Casino, has highlighted major frustration at the Scottish government’s actions, and said closures take not only a severe financial toll on the firm but also on the mental health of both staff and customers, for whom in many cases it is a major social lifeline.
Mr O’Reilly in his letter expressed his “dismay” at the Scottish government’s categorisation that he said will force both casinos and bingo clubs to close in Level 2 or above, and is urging the First Minister to reconsider this decision imminently – otherwise the firm is “highly likely” to see its entire Scottish estate shut down from November 2.
MSPs are today debating the new five-tier lockdown strategy in Holyrood, while some hospitality venues are challenging the Scottish government over their treatment.
'The decisions surrounding this latest categorisation are anything but evidence-based,” he added, saying that it comes in contrast to pubs, bars, cinemas, amusement arcades and restaurants being able to trade.
'I am at a complete loss as to why we have been singled out for this grossly unfair treatment. Casinos and bingo clubs are large venues which readily provide for social distancing. In our casinos we have invested in plexiglass to ensure customers can play safely. In our bingo venues we have one way-systems and seating plans which ensure two-metre-plus spacing, rather than the one-metre plus adopted more generally in the hospitality industry.
'Both casinos and bingo clubs are significantly safer than pubs, bars and other hospitality venues in Scotland that will be allowed to trade in level 2. I find it impossible to comprehend how these decisions can be, in any way, driven by science.”
His words were echoed by Mr McCluskey, who said the Maybury has invested “easily” more than £100,000 in Covid-related measures such as installing plexiglass, and is currently operating at about a quarter of its pre-Covid capacity of 900.
“It’s ultimately very frustrating, and there’s not really any evidence to support decisions to close casinos in Scotland,” Mccluskey said. “We do feel we are far and away the most secure Covid-environment in hospitality.
'I’ve never experienced a more robust environment [to prevent the spread of Covid] than I have seen in a casino,” he added, saying the firm operates a strict “no ID, no entry” policy as well as other measures. Dealing with the government’s treatment of gambling venues “is really difficult when you take into account how much we’ve done and how much we’ve invested,” he added.
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Mr O’Reilly said in his letter to Sturgeon that bingo is “part of the fabric of Scottish culture” – and for “hundreds of thousands of bingo players, the bingo club is a lifeline that allows them to avoid social isolation, maintain social contact and supports their mental health”.
Mr McCluskey echoed this, saying it is difficult for some customers, with Maybury’s demographic a slightly older crowd – and for its roughly 70 staff, who have reported mental health issues due to, say, isolation. In the latter case, particularly with older men, “it’s pretty much all they have” socially.
He reiterated that of the licensed venue sector, “casinos are the most robust [venues] and I challenge anybody to come into this casino and tell me that they’ve experienced a more robust covid-secure environment – there’s nothing like it out there, from what I’ve experienced”.
Mr O’Reilly added that throughout the pandemic, he and colleagues have “frequently” written to Scottish Government officials, informing them of the measures the group has put in place to keep colleagues and customers safe.
'My understanding is that restrictions outside the Central Belt are broadly aligned to the proposed Level 2 within the new framework. The Level 2 framework will now force casinos and bingo clubs to close when current restrictions have deemed it unnecessary. Perhaps this is an error that has been made in the drafting?
No justification
'It is very evidently a backward step with no justification whatsoever. Mercifully, you have the chance to correct it... and I would encourage you to do so, for the sake of thousands of jobs and livelihoods who do not deserve to be caught up in this.
“Our venues are indisputably Covid-secure. Why must they therefore close in Level 2 whilst other hospitality industries can remain open?
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'I appreciate the Scottish Government has difficult decisions to make and I have been steadfast in my refusal to criticise government decisions. If we are treated in line with other areas of hospitality, we will be able to protect jobs, safely give Scottish customers something to be cheerful about, and play a full part in Scotland’s economic recovery.
'None of these things would come at the expense of public health. If, however, the framework is not revised, jobs will unquestionably be lost, communities damaged, tax revenues foregone, and this will have no impact whatsoever on the spread of the virus. I urge you to reconsider.
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