Company
Gateway Casinos & Entertainment is one of the largest casino and entertainment companies in Western Canada and has grown from just 2 facilities with 150 employees to 9 facilities with over 3,000 employees.
Our focus has always been and will continue to be customer service, growth and integrity and we’re proud to be named one of the strongest companies in the Vancouver Sun’s BC Business Top 50 and the Globe and Mail’s Top 1000 list of publicly traded companies.
Celebrating our 15th year in business, our portfolio of properties includes Burnaby Villa Casino, Royal City Star Riverboat Casino, Cascades Casino, Lake City Casinos (Vernon, Kamloops, Kelowna & Penticton) and Baccarat and Palace Casinos in Edmonton. And there’s even more growth on the way - our Starlight Casino is scheduled to open December 2007 (New Westminster), and our Grand Villa Casino (Burnaby) in the summer of 2008.
An important part of Gateway’s future growth lies in our recent acquisition by New World Gaming which is a partnership between Macquarie Bank and Crown Limited. Macquarie is headquartered in Australia and is a leading provider of full range investment banking, financial markets and retail financial services. Macquarie is also one of Australia’s top 15 companies with over 11,000 employees in 24 countries and has reported successive years of record growth and profits since it was listed on the Australian stock exchange in 1996.
Crown is one of Australia’s largest diversified media and entertainment groups and its market capitalization of more than $11 billion, places it among the top 25 companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Recognized as one of the world’s leading gaming and entertainment companies, Crown has a history of innovation and success in Australia and Asia and will incorporate these strengths into building exciting and entertaining new facilities for locals and tourists alike.