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Genting HK selling up to 35pct of Dream Cruises

Aug 07, 2019 Newsdesk Latest News, Rest of Asia, Top of the deck  


Genting HK selling up to 35pct of Dream Cruises

Genting Hong Kong Ltd says it has agreed to sell up to 35 percent of its Dream Cruises business to a subsidiary of TPG Darting Ltd. Genting Hong Kong, a subsidiary of Malaysian operator of casinos Genting Bhd, operates cruise ships with casinos on board, embarking passengers mainly at ports in southern China and Singapore.

TPG Darting is owned by TPG Capital Asia and Growth Funds.

Genting Hong Kong told the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on Tuesday that it would sell first at least 24.5 percent of the stock of Dream Cruises, and that it intended in due course to sell more shares in the company, so bringing the stake bought by the TPG Darting subsidiary to 35 percent.

“The disposal would strengthen the group’s balance sheet and its ability to continue to expand its fleet in the cruise industry,” Genting Hong Kong told the stock exchange. “The disposal would also reduce the group’s financial burden in meeting future funding requirements in relation to Dream Cruises business.”

For its first tranche of shares, the TPG Darting subsidiary will pay almost US$488.65 million in cash multiplied by the percentage resulting from fraction of the first tranche of shares to 350, subject to adjustment by the seller’s good-faith estimate of the cash balance, the indebtedness and working capital of Dream Cruises at the initial closing, according to Tuesday’s filing.

For its second tranche of shares, the TPG Darting subsidiary will pay in cash the same amount it paid for its first tranche, divided by the number of shares in the first tranche multiplied by the number of shares in the second tranche, added the document.

In Tuesday’s filing, the board of Genting Hong Kong said it considered the investment by entities of a “highly reputable” private equity institution “to be a significant vote of confidence in Dream Cruises.

“The proceeds of the disposal will also increase the liquidity of the company and position it strongly to fund its continued expansion and new ship building programme on completing two ‘Global Class’ ships,” the first to be delivered in early 2021 and the second in early 2022.

In July Genting Hong Kong announced that it had appointed Michael Goh to the positions of president of Dream Cruises and head of international sales of Genting Cruise Lines.

Genting Hong Kong has eight cruise ships containing casinos run by its Resorts World at Sea business, which have table games and slot machines. The company also has a stake in the Resorts World Manila casino resort in the Philippines.

The company has in recent years accelerated its expansion plans for its cruise business and has developed a three-brand cruise portfolio with focus on different market segments: Crystal Cruises for what it terms the ultra-luxury segment; Dream Cruises for what it describes as the premium segment; and Star Cruises for what it defines as the contemporary segment.

In March, Genting Hong Kong reported that its annual net loss shrank by 13 percent in 2018 to about US$210.9 million, on annual revenue that grew by 34 percent to US$1.6 billion as the company redeployed two of its newer ships on cruises starting from ports in southern China.


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