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Isle of Capri Casinos

Logo: Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons5

Former American casino operator

Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc. was a gaming company headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri in Greater St. Louis which operated casinos and associated entertainment and lodging facilities in the United States. It operated 15 casinos in seven states across the U.S., Isle of Capri properties have nearly 13 million visitors each year. These properties have a total of about 14,000 slot machines, 350 table games, 2,300 hotel rooms; and three dozen restaurants.3 It was founded by Bernard Goldstein.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

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Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1992Founded1

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  • TickerISLE on NASDAQ1
  • Industrygambling1
  • HeadquartersCreve Coeur1
  • Websitewww.isleofcapricasino.com
  • Legal formDelaware corporation1
  • Incorporated inDE6
  • Business address600 Emerson Road, Suite 300, Saint Louis, Mo 631416
  • Filer categoryAccelerated filer6
  • LEIFCRGTB6NR4HIFH3ZC9324
  • StatusActive4
  • LEI statusLapsed (not renewed)4
  • Registered addressC/O The Corporation Trust Company, 19801 Wilmington, United States4

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Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc. was a gaming company headquartered in Creve Coeur, Missouri in Greater St. Louis which operated casinos and associated entertainment and lodging facilities in the United States.3

Corporate structure

Isle of Capri Casinos is part of a group headed by Caesars Entertainment. 197 entities, 8 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

  • Caesars Entertainment Reno, Nevada, United States
    • Isle of Capri Casinos Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
    • 1300 WSED, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • 1301 WSED, LLC Subsidiary · Maryland, United States
    • 1400 WSED, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • 3535 LV Newco, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • AC Conference Newco, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • American Wagering, Inc. Subsidiary · Nevada, United States
    • Aster Insurance Ltd. Subsidiary · Bermuda
    • AWI Manufacturing, Inc. Subsidiary · Nevada, United States
    • Bally's Las Vegas Manager, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • Bally's Park Place, LLC Subsidiary · New Jersey, United States
    • Benco, LLC Subsidiary · Nevada, United States
    • Black Hawk Holdings, L.L.C. Subsidiary · Colorado, United States
    • Boardwalk Regency LLC Subsidiary · New Jersey, United States
    • Brandywine Bookmaking, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • BV Manager, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • BW Sub Co. Subsidiary · Nevada, United States
    • Caesars Asia Limited Subsidiary · Hong Kong
    • Caesars Baltimore Investment Company, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • Caesars Baltimore Management Company, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • Caesars Convention Center Owner, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • Caesars Digital Canada, Inc. Subsidiary · Canada
    • Caesars Digital PR, Inc. Subsidiary · Puerto Rico, United States
    • Caesars Dubai, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • Caesars Enterprise Services, LLC Subsidiary · Delaware, United States
    • and 171 more

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What it owns

What Isle of Capri Casinos reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Property and equipment

ItemLatestA year beforeChange
Property and equipment, before depreciation$1.7B8 Apr 24, 2016$1.7B8 Apr 26, 2015+2.5%
Accumulated depreciation$817.1M8 Apr 24, 2016$771.5M8 Apr 26, 2015+5.9%
Property and equipment, net$899.2M8 Apr 24, 2016$902.2M8 Apr 26, 2015−0.3%

Investments

ItemLatestA year beforeChange
Cash and cash equivalents$62.1M8 Apr 24, 2016$66.4M8 Apr 26, 2015−6.5%
Marketable securities, current$19.3M8 Apr 24, 2016$19.5M8 Apr 26, 2015−0.9%

Intangibles and goodwill

ItemLatestA year beforeChange
Goodwill$109.0M8 Apr 24, 2016$109.0M8 Apr 26, 20150%
Intangible assets, net (excluding goodwill)$53.2M8 Apr 24, 2016$54.1M8 Apr 26, 2015−1.5%
Accumulated amortization$21.2M8 Apr 24, 2016$20.4M8 Apr 26, 2015+4.1%
Finite-lived intangibles, net$1.7M8 Apr 24, 2016$2.6M9 Apr 26, 2015−32.4%

Inventory

ItemLatestA year beforeChange
Inventory, total$6.3M8 Apr 24, 2016$6.5M8 Apr 26, 2015−3.1%

The story

Founded by Bernard Goldstein in 1992.1

The company was founded in 1990 by Bernard Goldstein as Kana Corporation.

In April 1992, it was renamed Anubis II Corporation. In June 1992, it was renamed again to Casino America, Inc. and began trading on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol CSNO. In 1995 it announced a move to trade to the New York Stock Exchange but that did not happen. In September 1998, it became Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc. and changed its ticker symbol to "ISLE."

The company opened its first casino on August 1, 1992, as a publicly traded corporation. Goldstein was known as the "grandfather of riverboat gaming since he owned the first riverboat casino to sail on the Mississippi River.

Goldstein's first casino operations were in the Quad City area of Iowa and Illinois, where Goldstein operated the riverboats Diamond Lady and the Emerald Lady under the corporate name Steamboat Casino Cruises. The two boats, which sailed from Bettendorf, Iowa on April 1, 1991, were two of the first modern riverboat casinos.

Isle of Capri Casinos opened its first casino in Biloxi, Mississippi in August 1992, and was the first gaming establishment to trade on the NASDAQ.

In 2000, Isle of Capri spent $400 million in a multi-part deal to acquire the Lady Luck chain of casinos. Lady Luck Gaming, which owned two adjacent Lady Luck casinos in Lula, Mississippi, one in Natchez, Mississippi, the Miss Marquette casino in Marquette, Iowa, and a half interest in the Lady Luck casino in Bettendorf, Iowa, was bought for $59 million in cash, $177 million in assumed debt, and $22 million to redeem preferred stock. On the same day, Isle of Capri bought the other half of the Bettendorf property from Goldstein's family for $62 million, and the rights to the Lady Luck trademark from Lady Luck's founder, Andrew Tompkins, for $31 million. Six months later, it completed the purchase of the Lady Luck Hotel & Casino in downtown Las Vegas from Tompkins for $14.5 million. The Las Vegas property was sold two years later to a group of real estate investors. The other Lady Luck properties were all rebranded under the Isle of Capri name.

In 2005, its Biloxi casino (but not its hotel) was destroyed and its Lake Charles facilities were damaged by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, respectively.

In August 2006, Isle of Capri Casinos moved its headquarters from Biloxi to Creve Coeur, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. Missouri had offered $4.2 million in tax incentives to lure the operation. 150 employees moved with the headquarters. Company officials said they were looking for new headquarters after evacuating their building three times in 2004–05 due to hurricanes.

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On February 14, 2006, Isle of Capri sold the Isle of Capri Bossier City and Isle of Capri Vicksburg to Legends Gaming for $240 million. The properties are now known as "Diamond Jack's".

The company competed for a gambling license in Pittsburgh in 2006, offering $290 million toward the construction of a new arena for the Pittsburgh Penguins as an incentive and thus drawing enormous public support in Pittsburgh. The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board nevertheless awarded the license to PITG Gaming Majestic Star instead, who was required to partially fund the building of the new arena, the Consol Energy Center.

On March 19, 2007, Isle of Capri purchased Casino Aztar in Caruthersville, Missouri from Columbia Sussex for about $45 million.

In April, 2007 the Company opened the Isle Casino & Racing at Pompano Park in Pompano Beach, Florida.

On July 1, 2007, Isle of Capri opened a new property in Waterloo, Iowa.

In 2008, the company adopted a two-brand strategy, reviving the Lady Luck name for smaller properties with limited amenities, while keeping the Isle of Capri name for properties with full-service facilities like hotel rooms, convention space, and expanded dining options. The Marquette and Caruthersville casinos were the first to be rebranded as Lady Luck properties.

In June 2010, Isle of Capri bought the Rainbow Casino in Vicksburg, Mississippi from Bally Technologies for $80 million. The property was re-branded Lady Luck Casino in 2012.

On December 1, 2010, the Missouri Gaming Commission awarded the company the state's 13th gaming license for a casino project in Cape Girardeau. The casino includes 1,000 slot machines, 28 table games, 3 restaurants, a lounge and terrace overlooking the Mississippi River and a 750-seat event center at an estimated cost of $125 million.

On April 14, 2011, Isle of Capri and Nemacolin Woodlands Resort were selected as the recipients of Pennsylvania's last casino resort license by the state's gaming board. Lady Luck Casino Nemacolin is expected to include 600 slot machines, 28 table games, a casual dining restaurant and lounge.

On October 30, 2012, Isle Casino Cape Girardeau opened to the public.

In November 2012, Isle of Capri sold the Isle Casino Hotel Biloxi to Landry's Inc. for $45 million.

On July 1, 2013, Lady Luck Casino Nemacolin opened to the public.

On February 3, 2014, the Company completed the sale of its Davenport, Iowa casino to Scott County Casino LLC.

On October 18, 2015, the Company closed their Natchez, MS riverfront casino due to low patronage. The Isle of Capri hotel was sold to Natchez competitor Magnolia Bluffs Casino.

On March 13, 2017, the Company sold Lady Luck Marquette to the Casino Queen based in Swansea, Illinois.

On May 1, 2017, the acquisition by Eldorado Resorts, previously announced on September 19, 2016, was completed.

From Wikipedia’s article on Isle of Capri Casinos, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.7

Leadership

Who has led Isle of Capri Casinos, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Chief executive

  1. Bernard Goldstein2006
  2. Virginia McDowell2011–2016
  3. Eric L. Hausler2016–2017

Chair

  1. Bernard Goldstein2006–2008

President

  1. Timothy M. Hinkley2006–2007
  2. Virginia McDowell2007–2016
  3. Arnold Block2017

Chief financial officer

  1. Dale Black2007–2012
  2. Eric L. Hausler2014–2016

Chief operating officer

  1. Arnold Block2011–2017
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Board members and other officers (26)

Subsidiaries and ownership

Owners

From Wikidata.1

Former names

  • CASINO AMERICA INCJul 7, 1994 to Aug 24, 19986

Timeline

  1. Nov 21, 2016New chief executive Eric L. Hausler becomes CEO10
  2. Jul 19, 2011New chief executive Virginia McDowell becomes CEO11
  3. Oct 16, 2006New chief executive Bernard Goldstein becomes CEO12
  4. 1992Founded Founded1

SEC filer profile

How Isle of Capri Casinos is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, from its EDGAR record and the cover page of its latest annual report.

  • Name on EDGARISLE OF CAPRI CASINOS INC2
  • CIK0000863015
  • Employer ID (EIN)41-16596062
  • Filer statusAccelerated filer2
  • Incorporated inDelaware2
  • Fiscal year endsApril 252
  • Industry code (SIC)7011 Hotels & Motels2
  • Business address600 Emerson Road, Suite 300, Saint Louis, MO 631412
  • Phone31481392002
  • Shares outstanding41,359,419 as of Feb 23, 201746
  • Public float$475.7M as of Oct 23, 20158
  • On EDGAR sinceJan 28, 19942
  • Filings1,074 in all: 4 (504), 8-K (183), 10-Q (63), 3 (38), 4/A (29), SC 13G/A (28), DEF 14A (22), 10-K (18)2
    All 46 form types

    SC 13D/A (16), SC 13G (16), UPLOAD (13), CORRESP (12), 425 (10), S-8 (10), S-8 POS (10), DEFA14A (8), SC 13D (8), 424B3 (7), S-4 (7), 8-K/A (6), S-3/A (6), S-4/A (6), 10-K/A (5), 11-K (5), EFFECT (5), S-3 (5), SC TO-I/A (4), 10-K405 (3), 10-Q/A (3), NT 11-K (3), PRE 14A (3), 424B5 (2), ARS (2), DEFM14A (2), 10-K405/A (1), 15-12G (1), 25-NSE (1), 424B1 (1), 8-A12G (1), 8-A12G/A (1), NT 10-K (1), NT 10-Q (1), PREM14A (1), RW (1), S-3MEF (1), SC TO-I (1)

  • Latest filingsAnnual report (10-K) Jun 21, 2016
    Quarterly report (10-Q) Feb 24, 2017
    Proxy statement (DEF 14A) Aug 22, 2016
    Latest 8-K (8-K) May 1, 2017

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