Angela Leong says gaming revenue is ‘not bad’

Angela Leong

SJM Holdings’ gaming business is not as good as it was before the national holidays, said the company’s executive director Angela Leong on the sidelines of the company’s cocktail reception held at the Macau Tower yesterday, in celebration of the 67th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China.
With the Chinese holiday nearing its end, Leong acknowledged that, “[the business] is OK, [but] of course it lags in comparison [with before]. But now, it is not bad.”
Besides the company’s business, the director said that SJM Holdings is applying a new system which will grant the company’s employees more days off on overlapping public holidays. The company initiated a new policy on Wednesday that will give its employees more days off when the holidays overlap weekends.
Leong told the media that the system covers all employees of SJM Holdings, including front workers and those behind the scenes. The program, she said, comes at a time of social and economic change.
The director said employees typically requested more days off when there were overlapping holidays, and that since the company also had similar requirements, the system was approved quickly and without difficulty.
Earlier this year, the local government requested the city’s greyhound racing track to be relocated or closed within two years, and gave a final closing date of July 2018.
Leong said that the government has given the company several option regarding the issue. “There are no good results yet. [We are] still discussing,” she said.
As to whether the company will close down the business or continue operations, Leong affirmed the company hopes for the latter option.
“There are many ways to continue the business,” she stated, adding that the company has not yet chosen a new site for the track and is now studying possible options. Julie Zhu