ADR: American Depositary Receipt.
Agents or Agency: Intermediaries between the artistic talent and the event promoters.
AM: Amplitude Modulation; a radio frequency.
BMV: The Mexican Stock Exchange.
Box-Office: The total number of tickets sold for a “live” event. It also refers to the place where tickets are sold for the “live” events.
CETES: Mexican Federal Bonds.
Champ Car World Series: International automotive racing series, previously known as the CART Series.
CNBV: Mexican National Banking and Securities Commission (the regulatory authority for banking and securities).
Disney: A registered trademark of The Walt Disney Company.
EBITDA: Equity Before Interests, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization, also know as Operative Cash Flow.
Entertainment Venues: Buildings that are used to host live events.
Exhibition Space: The area or space that is used to exhibit products and services.
FM: Frequency Modulation; a radio frequency.
Full length movies: Film productions that last for more than an hour and twenty minutes.
GDF: The Mexico City Government.
GDP: Gross Domestic Product.
Grupo Mágico: Grupo Mantenimiento de Giros Comerciales Internacional, S.A. de C.V., a subsidiary that operates CIE’s Amusement Parks Division in Mexico, Colombia and the United States of America.
IGT: International Game Technologies (NYSE: IGT) the worldwide leader specialized in the development of state-of-the-art gaming systems and machines, using state-ofthe- art technology.
IMCP: Mexican Institute of Public Accountants.
Indeval: The Mexican Securities Depository Institute; an entity that provides services relating to the custody, administration, and transfer of securities, as well as the clearing and settlement of transactions.
INPC: The Mexican National Consumer Price Index.
IPyC: The Mexican Price and Quotation Index of the BMV.
Issuer: Refers to Corporación Interamericana de Entretenimiento, S.A.B. de C.V. and its Subsidiaries.
IVA: Value-Added Tax.
LIBOR: London Interbank Offering Rate.
Mexico: The United States of Mexico.
Musicals, theatrical productions or “Broadway-type” productions: Upscale events, plays or musical shows produced under the terms and specifications of the license.
NBA: National Basketball Association.
NFL: National Football League. |
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OCEN: OCESA Entretenimiento, S.A. de C.V.; a strategic join venture between Televisa and CIE for the operation and development of “live” events in Mexico.
PCGA: Mexican Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (Mexican GAAP).
Promoters: Independent professionals or agencies that hire and promote an artist for one or more of their shows.
Ps. or Pesos: The legal currency in Mexico.
PWC: PricewaterhouseCoopers (external auditor).
Region: Depending on the context, the term could apply to Latin America, the United States or Spain.
RNV: National Securities Registration Office (formerly known as RNVI or National Securities and Intermediaries Registration Office).
Royalties: A previously agreed upon payment that is made to writers and/or the owners of industrial or intellectual property rights.
Seating capacity: The number of seats available for live events.
SINCA Inbursa: SINCA Inbursa, S.A. de C.V.; Inbursa Venture Capital, a subsidiary of Grupo Financiero Inbursa, S.A.
Souvenir: An article or object, used for publicity purposes, that pertains to a certain event, person or place.
Sponsorship rights: The rights granted to hire, finance, market and operate a “live” event.
Sports Book: An enclosed area where sports betting is permitted under Mexican Law, under the off-track betting book registration format. Sports Book is a registered trademark of CIE.
Tele-marketing: Services provided to third parties through phone centers that make and receive phone calls.
Terminal: The electronic terminal is a technological platform on which numbers games are played simultaneously, and they are a natural evolution of the original numbers-based game, operated independently through a centralized system that transmits the result of the numbers game, based on an electronic platform to multiple terminals.
Theme Park: An amusement park with specific types of entertainment.
Ticketmaster: A registered Trademark of Ticketmaster Corp.
TIIE: The Mexican Interbank Equilibrium Rate.
Tours: A series of “live” events with similar contents and characteristics that takes place within a defined region during a certain time period.
UDI: An investment unit whose value is linked to the Mexican inflation rate.
U.S.A. or U.S.: United States of America.
USD or US$: The legal currency of the United States of America.
Yak: An enclosed area where numbers based games are permitted under Mexican Law. Yak is a registered Trademark of CIE.
Zoo: The term refers to the Jardín Zoológico de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (The Buenos Aires Zoo), which is operated by the Group. |
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