Thanks to a $120,000 grant from the Caesars Foundation, the Chester Education Foundation’s mission to get more city students into college will have more resources at its disposal.
The donation is in support of Project Transition, which was established to increase the number of Chester High School students who are academically prepared for a successful transition into post-secondary education.
Harrah’s Chester Casino & Racetrack Sr. Vice President and General Manager Ron Baumann presented the check to Chester Education Foundation Executive Director Cheryl Cunningham.
Las Vegas-based Caesars Entertainment joined the club of gaming companies boosted by improved Southern Nevada results, despite an overall third-quarter revenue decline primarily caused by Hurricane Irene.
Caesars reported income of $198.2 million on revenue of $2.25 billion for the quarter that ended Sept. 30. A year ago, the company had income of $175.7 million on revenue of $2.29 billion.
Company officials attributed the 12.8 percent increase in profits to cost cuts, efficiency initiatives and organizational realignments. They blamed the 1.5 percent decline in revenue to closures at its four Atlantic City properties on what traditionally has been one of the market’s strongest weekends.
November Nine” Features Players from Seven Nations
ESPN’s WSOP Coverage Continues on Tuesday Nights through November 8, 2011
LAS VEGAS (July 20, 2011) – The 42nd annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Championship – commonly referred to as the Main Event – is down to its final nine players. The “November Nine” – a diverse and international group – is all that remains of the massive field of 6,865 players who entered the iconic tournament seeking poker’s most coveted title and a top prize of more than $8.7 million.
- Biggest Heads-Up tournament prize pool in history ($3,040,000) – Event #2
ComputerWorld last week revealed its coveted 100 Best Places to Work list and Caesars Entertainment placed 28, up significantly from its 58 ranking last year.
In developing its list, the magazine evaluated qualities such as an organization’s average salary and bonus increases, percentage of IT staffers promoted, IT staff turnover rates, training and development, and diversity of the IT staff. In addition, information was collected on retention efforts, programs for recognizing and rewarding outstanding performances, and benefits such as flextime, elder care and childcare, and reimbursement for college tuition and the cost of pursuing technology certifications. After gathering the profile information, a random sample of IT employees was surveyed. Topics covered included satisfaction with training and development programs, benefits, and work/life balance. In addition, employees were asked to rate employee morale in their IT departments, the importance of various benefits, and their agreement with a variety of statements on subjects ranging from career growth to management’s fair and equal treatment of employees.
LAS VEGAS—In a hospital, “code red” or “code blue” indicates a heart-related emergency. In naming its sustainability program “Code Green” four years ago, Caesars Entertainment recognizes there is a sense of urgency and a strong business case for reducing its environmental impact. The “doctor” caring for Code Green is Gwen Migita, a Hawaii native and currently director of Sustainability & Community Engagement.
Migita works with Code Green leaders at both the property and corporate level to assist them with meeting the company’s aggressive environment-related goals. Leaders at the property level are required to report monthly metrics that are inputted into a scorecard. “The scoreboard is a dashboard where we pull up monthly or quarterly numbers—utility costs, recycling program results, and employee engagement activities around Code Green,” Migita says.
ATLANTIC CITY – Before most Boardwalk shops opened for business Friday morning, Karen Greene, a restaurant manager at Bally’s Atlantic City, sat behind a table in front of the Wild Wild West casino distributing T-shirts, rubber gloves and trash bags to hundreds of Caesars Entertainment employees.
“Get your gloves, you’re going to be doing a lot of cleaning,” Greene told a group of four Bally’s employees who were headed to Ohio Avenue.
The activity helped launch the city’s second annual Clean Communities Day, a massive effort to rid the resort of trash.
On May 20, the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation and Caesars Entertainment, Inc. celebrated their continued relationship for an additional seven years at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino & Hotel in southwestern North Carolina.
The renewed contract grants Harrah’s North Carolina Casino Company, LLC, a subsidiary of Caesars, the exclusive right and obligation to develop, manage, operate and maintain the casino operation. The tribe and Caesars first inked a management agreement in June 1996 that lasted five years. Amended in 1999 and extended until November 2004, it was then renewed for an additional seven years.
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