Our strategy and values

Cinépolis

Duration: 00:02:33

Speakers:

[Mauricio]

Cinépolis, it’s a beautiful story that starts in a very small city 51 years ago, with the imagination and the passion of a family to start building movie theatres.

Now, we are the second-largest multiplex movie theatre company in the world.

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Cinépolis
From city cinema to multinational multiplex

MEXICO CITY
Mexico

19.4326° N, 99.1332° W

CIUDAD DE MÉXICO
México

19.4326° N, 99.1332° W

[Mauricio]

HSBC has been with us in all this growth since the beginning.

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Mauricio Vaca
Chief Financial Officer
Cinépolis

[Mauricio]

It is really important to have a very long-term relationship with your financial partner.

The support of having a very strong international bank gives you the comfort to think in other countries.

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MUMBAI
India

19.0760° N, 72.8777° W

मुम्बई
भारत

19.0760° N, 72.8777° W

[Mauricio]

When we entered India, a territory that is full of magic and mystery.

The HSBC team was very important.

They helped us to understand all the tax regulation, collection of the cash and the regular things that we need to operate a movie theatre.

Having the right financial partner was, for us, very key in the success of India.

And now we’re the second largest multiplex movie theatre, and we have theatres in 95% of the cities of India.

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DUBAI
United Arab Emirates

25.2048° N, 55.2708° E

بي د
المتحدة الإمارات العربية

25.2048° N, 55.2708° E

MUSCAT
Oman

23.5880° N, 58.3829° E

مَسْقَط
عُمَان

23.5880° N, 58.3829° E

[Mauricio]

Landing in Dubai and into Oman, it was another culture, another way of doing business.

Entering a new territory, that’s also very highly regulated, it was very scary.

Going shoulder to shoulder with HSBC was very, very important.

During Covid, Cinépolis, as well as the rest of the movie theatres, had the worst crisis in all times.

We not only had a closing of all the movie theatres in all the 19 countries, also we had a war from the streaming platforms.

HSBC was one of the top leaders that helped us to not only restructure the debt that we had, but also to give us liquidity to support the operations and to keep us alive.

This trust that you build over the years, by having this constant conversation and is about really knowing each other.

When you have the financial support, like HSBC with us, I see a bright, a bright future for Cinépolis.

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