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RE-OPENING OF ADELAIDE CASINO AND UPDATE ON EQUITY RAISING

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26 June 2020


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RE: SKYCITY ENTERTAINMENT GROUP LIMITED (SKC)

RE-OPENING OF ADELAIDE CASINO AND UPDATE ON EQUITY RAISING



Please find attached a market release relating to the re-opening of Adelaide Casino and

the company’s $230 million equity raising announced on 17 June 2020.



Authorised by:



Jo Wong

Company Secretary

Phone: +64 9 363 6143

Email: jo.wong@skycity.co.nz

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MARKET RELEASE


26 June 2020

Re-Opening of Adelaide Casino and Update on Equity Raising

Adelaide Casino

SkyCity Entertainment Group Limited (SKC.NZX/SKC.AX) (“SkyCity”) advises that it expects

to fully re-open its gaming, entertainment and hospitality facilities in Adelaide on

29 June 2020 as part of the South Australian Government’s three-stage approach to

re-opening the economy and easing the COVID-19 restrictions.

Consistent with the approach adopted when re-opening its New Zealand properties at

Alert Level 2, SkyCity expects to re-open the Adelaide Casino in a staged manner with

reduced operating hours, based on expected customer demand. Specific re-opening plans

include:

• casino access initially limited to “active” members;

• capacity subject to maximum patronage of one person per two square metres at any

given time (represents around 2,200 people, including staff);

• re-opening most food and beverage outlets (in addition to The Guardsman and

Madame Hanoi which re-opened in early June 2020);

• adherence to strict physical distancing measures, including configuring electronic

gaming machines to allow appropriate physical distancing, limiting customers at

each gaming table and ensuring appropriate spacing at restaurants and bars;

• infrastructure established to support contact tracing, primarily through surveillance,

guest registers, identity scanning and use of loyalty cards; and

• enhanced hygiene protocols.

As previously flagged to the market, the Adelaide Casino expansion and associated master

planning projects continue to progress well and remain on-budget and on-time for an

October 2020 completion. The expansion is expected to open in a staged manner

reflecting customer demand, with a focus initially on local and interstate customers given

ongoing international border restrictions.

Update on Equity Raising

The NZ$180 million institutional placement (“Placement”) announced as part of a NZ$230

million equity raising on 17 June 2020 successfully settled on the New Zealand and

Australian stock exchanges on 24 June 2020 following allotment and commencement of

trading of the new shares to participating shareholders. The Placement was strongly

supported by existing institutional shareholders and also attracted significant bids from
other institutional investors.

As part of the equity raising, SkyCity’s fully underwritten NZ$50 million share purchase plan

("SPP") offer opened on 22 June 2020. Under the SPP, eligible existing SkyCity shareholders

with a registered address in New Zealand or Australia can each subscribe for up to

NZ$50,000/A$47,000 worth of new SkyCity shares. The offer price of these shares will be

the lower of the Placement offer price of NZ$2.50 per share and a 2.5% discount to the

five-day VWAP of SkyCity shares traded on the NZX during the last five days of the SPP offer

period. The new shares to be issued under the SPP will rank equally in all respects with

SkyCity’s existing ordinary shares.

An SPP offer booklet, together with an application form, has been dispatched to eligible

shareholders and is available at www.shareoffer.co.nz/skycity

. All eligible shareholders are

encouraged to visit the website and apply online before the closing date for the offer

on 3 July 2020. Given present uncertainties with respect to postal deliveries, eligible

shareholders wishing to apply for new shares under the SPP are encouraged to do so online

and as soon as practicable.

ENDS


For more information, please contact:

Investors and analysts Media

Ben Kay

General Manager, Corporate

Development & Investor Relations

DDI: +64 9 363 6067

E-mail: ben.kay@skycity.co.nz


Liza McNally

Chief Marketing Officer

DDI: + 64 9 363 7137

Mobile +64 2194 4989

E-mail: liza.mcnally@skycity.co.nz



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This announcement is not financial product advice and has not taken into account your objectives, financial

situation or needs. This announcement has been prepared for release in New Zealand and Australia. This

announcement does not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, any securities in the United

States or in any jurisdiction in which such an offer would be illegal. The offer and sale of the shares referred to in

this announcement have not been, and will not be, registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933 (the

U.S. Securities Act), or the securities laws of any state or other jurisdiction of the United States. Accordingly, the

new shares to be offered and sold in the Placement may not be offered or sold, directly or indirectly, to persons in

the United States except pursuant to an exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration

requirements of the U.S. Securities Act and applicable U.S. state securities laws. The new shares to be offered and

sold in the SPP may not be offered or sold, directly or indirectly, to any person in the United States or any person

acting for the account or benefit of a person in the United States.

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