Okura Holdings to close two pachinko venues due to poor performance

Okura Holdings Limited has announced the closure of two of its pachinko halls, K’s Plaza Mikatsuki in Saga prefecture and BA Motosumiyoshi in Kanagawa

Okura Holdings Limited has proclaimed the gag law of 2 of its pachinko halls, K’s Plaza Mikatsuki inward Saga prefecture and BA Motosumiyoshi inward Kanagawa. The II venues will cease operations from 10 May 2021.

According to the released statement, the companionship decided to tightlipped the venues due to “deteriorating operating and financial performance; since the eruption of the Covid-19 inwards Japanese Islands inward Jan 2020 and the resulting substantial go down inwards boilers suit customer traffic."

Okura Holdings has said that while the company’s other pachinko halls present signs of retrieval and reverting players, the ii properties inwards interrogative get non managed to go back their invitee traffic since the latter half of 2020.

The accompany aims to focussing on to a greater extent promising venues and strengthen their performance, but due to the richly rivalry in the pachinko industry, Okura Holdings will follow closure the underperforming properties.

Net revenue from K's Mikatsuki for the hexad months ended 31 December 2020 was JPY33.8m ($310,409), which contributed approximately 1% to the company’s revenue. However, the belongings recorded JPY14.7m inward deprivation before taxation for the period, and it amounted to 40% contributed to the group.

BA Motosumiyoshi earned JPY30.3m inwards revenue and missed JPY7.9m, a 22% share to the company’s losses. The keep company believes that the closures will feature no stuff contrary impact on its business sector functioning and financial position.

Currently, pachinko parlors are one of the few effectual ways to hazard inward Japan; however, since the get going of the pandemic and the wellness and refuge regulations that were imposed inward the country, venues are veneer difficulties.

While some pachinko parlors remain operating(a) even with the social-distancing rules, the pachinko marketplace is veneer a slacken decline, both due to its want of digitalisation and planned IRs inwards the country, which would present casinos into the Nipponese market.

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