London (Reuters) - Playboy bunny girls are to return to London after a 25-year absence when the U.S. entertainment company opens a store and a casino-cum-restaurant venue. Playboy's first European store, part of the Playboy Enterprises entertainment empire, opens on London's main shopping thoroughfare on September 14 to sell products varying from its men's magazines to branded cosmetics and lingerie.

Playboy Enterprises Inc., publisher of the most widely read men's magazine, will open a 40,000 square-foot entertainment complex, including gaming facilities and bunny-suited waitresses, in Macau in late 2009. Playboy Mansion Macao will include dining, entertainment and retail shops, company Chairman and Chief Executive Christie Hefner said in an interview in Hong Kong today.