Packer casinos feel the chill WA today James Packers Canadian casino joint venture with Macquarie Bank has asked staff at two of their nine casinos to take unpaid leave and forced staff to cut Packer feels Canadian chill Trading Markets (press release) (link)

Billionaire Packer Scraps Cannery Deal, Sells Ranches Bloomberg By Robert Fenner and Madelene Pearson March 13 (Bloomberg) Billionaire James Packer today scrapped a $1.75 billion takeover of Cannery Casino Resorts LLC Crown Stock Rises After Packer Kills US Casino Deal New Online Casinos James Packers Crown soars after US casino deal dropped The Australian Packer buys his way out of US casino troubles Sydney Morning Herald Forbes all 65 news articles ASX CWN PINK CWLDF OTC KIDSQ Terra Firma Buys Packer s Australian Cattle Ranches Bloomberg It was fairly well known that James Packer was not an anxious seller, but a willing seller, said valuer Herron. It was just known that he didnt have the Guy Hands agrees Packer ranch buy out Financial Times UKs Terra Firma buys Australian beef producer Reuters Family shuts the gate on cattle properties for $425m Sydney Morning Herald ThomsonMergerNews(registration) AltAssets all 26 news articles Packer strives to save US casinos deal Brisbane Times JAMES PACKERS Crown Limited insists it is still committed to its promise to buy a suite of US casinos, but has warned that the earnings they will produce Investors exit bid for casino license Las Vegas Review Journal Overseas write downs drag Crown to $410m loss The Age Crown posts $409m loss, says Australian revenue still solid The Australian MelbourneHeraldSun all 49 news articles ASX CWN OTC KIDSQ WA today Everybody needs good neighbours WA today James Packer sat on the Wernapt board. As did property chap Theo Onisforou. Plenty from the pointy end of town have since made the same strip their (link)

Casino deal hobbles but its not finished Press Enterprise The big $1.75 million deal that was to put Las Vegas Cannery and Eastside Cannery casinos in the hands of Australian media king James Packer has been (link)

Crown investors continue to pay for Packers ambition LIVENEWS.com.au Shareholders in James Packers gaming company, Crown, are continuing to pay for the adventures of Mr Packer and his managers in the tanking US gambling Australias Crown at heart of gaming shake up talk Reuters (link)

Cattle stations in the midst of buying frenzy Brisbane Times of about 17 times earnings for the Packer stations, well above the 11.5 times paid by CVC Asia Pacific to James Packer for most of PBL Media in 2007. (link)

Rivoli Theatre up for grabs The Age CAMBERWELLS heritage listed Rivoli Theatre is on the market after months of speculation that its owner, the James Packer backed Challenger Group, Showtime for classic cinema Melbourne Herald Sun (link)

Cash lever in reverse for James Packer Melbourne Herald Sun Yet James Packer isnt like the rest of us, who havent lost the equivalent of two CityLinks or 10 MCG redevelopments. Lumbered with a domineering father, (link)

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