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IAG JUL 2021年7月 亞博匯 31 封面故事 Casinos Austria Of the three candidates, Casinos Austria was the only company that chose not to specifically address each of our questions, although the company did send IAG some generic information about its activities in Austria and abroad. The CEO of Casinos Austria International Japan is Mr Akio Hayashi, who owns TES Holdings, a regenerative medicine company. He was awarded a medal from the city of Vienna in 2017, has done charity work with the Vienna Boys Choir and is married to Sachiko Kobayashi, a famous Japanese enka singer. IAG interviewed Hayashi in July last year. IR TRACK RECORD Niall Murray is an industry veteran with experience spanning decades from Las Vegas to Macau. He’s been taking an especially keen interest in Japan in his capacity as Chairman of Murray International, a boutique integrated resort consulting firm. “Casinos Austria has a very solid reputation for operating small European-style casinos,” Murray says. “However, they do not have experience in designing, developing and operating large integrated resorts.” Of its current operations, perhaps the closest to an IR is the Reef Casino in Cairns, Australia, but this property only has around 40 tables, 500 slot machines and 127 hotel rooms. According to its 2020 financial report, the current market value of the Reef property is US$102 million, around 3% of the amount most commentators are expecting to see invested in Nagasaki. Casinos Austria International 在三間候選營運商中，Casinos Austria是唯一一間選擇不 具體回應我們每條問題的公司，但該企向《亞博匯》發送了一些 資訊，有關其在奧地利和國外的發展。 Casinos Austria International在日本的公司之行政總裁 是林明男，他經營再生醫學公司TES Holdings，並於2017年獲 維也納市政府頒發獎章，曾與維也納少年合唱團一起進行慈善 工作，其中妻子為日本著名演歌歌手小林幸子。《亞博匯》去年7 月曾與林明男進行專訪。 IR 往績 Niall Murray是一位資深行業專家，從拉斯維加斯到澳門 擁有數十年行業經驗。作為綜合度假村業務諮詢公司Murray International的董事長，他特別對日本有著濃厚的興趣。 「Casinos Austria在經營小型歐式娛樂場方面享有盛譽。 」Murray指出，「然而，該企沒有設計、開發和營運大型綜合度假 村的經驗。」 在其目前營運的物業中，最接近IR項目規模的可能是位於 澳洲開恩茲的Reef Casino，但該娛樂場只有約40張賭枱、500 部角子機和127間酒店客房。根據其2020年財務報告，Reef項 目的資產市值目前為1.02億美元，只是大多數專家預期營運商 須在長崎投資金額的3%。Casinos Austria International聲稱 其在全球11個國家/地區的25間娛樂場經營300張賭枱，但300 張賭桌僅是拉斯維加斯或澳門任一IR項目的博彩設施規模。 財務能力 根據Casinos Austria International提供給《亞博匯》的數 據顯示，自該企於1977年在奧地利以外市場開展業務以來，其 博彩總收入為2.4億歐元。其近期的資產負債表顯示，Casinos Austria整個集團的總股本約4億歐元（520億日元），Casinos Austria International的總股本則約7000萬歐元（92億日元）， 遠低於大多數分析師預期長崎項目所需的巨大投資金額3500 億日元或以上。當然，Casinos Austria幾乎肯定會跟合作夥伴