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London Paramount Key Facts: Management Confident of Financial Backing

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By Rachel ReadMar 07, 2017 1 min read
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Rachel is co-founder and strategic director at blooloop. She has a degree in engineering from Cambridge University, is a Chartered Accountant and has certificates in Sustainability Leadership and Corporate Responsibility from London Business School, and Sustainable Marketing, Media and Creative from Cambridge University's Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL). Rachel oversees our news, events and sustainability.
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Kent Live have created a useful round up of the key facts around the £3.5 billion London Paramount Entertainment Resort, which could open by 2022.

London Resort Company Holdings (LRCH), the company behind the theme park development, were in the news last month with new leadership appointments as well asspeculation about their backer, SinoFortone's track record on completion of deals.

A final public consultationwill take place before plans can be submitted later this year.

Group CEO of LRCH's parent companyKuwaiti European Holdings, Humphrey Percy has told Kent Live that he is confident that the plans will be approved and that financial backing is sound."We have the financial backing to take us all the way through that process."

What you need to know about the £3.5billion Paramount theme park that could open in Kent by 2022 - Kent Live

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Rachel Read
Rachel Read
Rachel is co-founder and strategic director at blooloop. She has a degree in engineering from Cambridge University, is a Chartered Accountant and has certificates in Sustainability Leadership and Corporate Responsibility from London Business School, and Sustainable Marketing, Media and Creative from Cambridge University's Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL). Rachel oversees our news, events and sustainability.
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