Type Public Industry Gaming Number of locations 9 | Traded as OTCQB: TPCA Founded 2009 | |
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Predecessor Tropicana Entertainment LLC Key people Carl Icahn
(Chairman)
Tony Rodio
(President & CEO) Owner Icahn Enterprises (65%) Stock price TPCA (OTCMKTS) US$ 31.50 -0.50 (-1.56%)24 Mar, 4:00 PM GMT-4 - Disclaimer Headquarters Las Vegas, Nevada, United States Parent organization Icahn Enterprises Holdings L.P Subsidiaries CASINO ONE CORP, JMBS Casino, L.L.C. | ||
Tropicana Entertainment Inc. is a publicly traded gaming company that owns and operates casinos and resorts in Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, Missouri, New Jersey, and Aruba. Tropicana properties collectively have approximately 5,500 rooms, 8,000 slot positions and 270 table games. The company is based in Spring Valley, Nevada.
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History
In January 2007, Columbia Sussex acquired Aztar Corporation, owner of the Tropicana casinos in Las Vegas and Atlantic City, and three other casinos, for $2.1 billion. A new subsidiary, Tropicana Entertainment LLC, was created to hold the combined company's casinos. After losing control of its largest property, the Tropicana Atlantic City, the new company was quickly forced into bankruptcy in May 2008. While in bankruptcy, the Tropicana Las Vegas was split off as a separate entity.
The rest of the company emerged from bankruptcy on March 8, 2010 as Tropicana Entertainment Inc., under the leadership of investor Carl Icahn. On the same day, it regained control of the Tropicana Atlantic City, which Icahn and other investors had bought for $200 million in canceled debt. In approving the transfer, the Casino Control Commission stressed that Tropicana was a "different company" than the company that had lost its license in 2007.
In March 2011, Tropicana sold the Horizon Casino in Vicksburg to a partnership of Tangent Gaming and Great Southern Investment Group, who renamed it as the Grand Station Hotel and Casino.
In 2012, the company closed the Jubilee casino and consolidated its operations into the Lighthouse Point casino, which was expanded and rebranded as the Trop Casino Greenville.
In May 2013, Tropicana agreed to sell the River Palms for $7 million to M1 Gaming, owner of Boomtown Reno, but the sale never went through. In July 2014, Tropicana instead agreed to sell the River Palms for $6.75 million to the owners of Dotty's.
In April 2014, Tropicana acquired Lumière Place, HoteLumière, and the Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis from Pinnacle Entertainment for $260 million.
The company assumed management of the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City after Icahn Enterprises purchased the casino's parent company.