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Bitinaite boosts New online MD
Bally’s sales team
Microsoft joins gaming
for Rank Group
Jurate Bitinaite
community in Las Vegas
has joined Bally oft, which claims to be attracting and developing great
as regional sales one of the largest partnerships with leaders in the T
he Rank Group has appointed
Mark Jones as managing
director of Blue Square, its
manager for M
icros
employers in the state of hospitality and gaming industry,” interactive gaming business. He
Eastern Europe. Nevada, has opened an office in Las said Janet Kennedy, vice president also becomes a member of the
“We are very Vegas. The company of Microsoft's West Group’s executive committee.
pleased to has around a dozen Region. Jones, 44, is an experienced
welcome Jurate to our growing full-time employees “The Las Vegas internet retailer, who founded Online
international sales team,” said permanently based in office also better Travel Corporation plc, which he ran
Marcel Heutmekers, Bally’s Director Las Vegas and another 10 on positions our team to expand as Chief Executive before becoming
of Europe. “Her background and average who routinely travel to the Microsoft’s business presence in managing director of
experience in the Baltic States and market to service local customers support of the growth of other lastminute.com. He has also held
Eastern European countries will help and partners on a daily basis. industries in the region. We look senior management positions at
us to continue our aggressive “By establishing an office in the forward to serving as active Travelocity and Harrods.
expansion into these key markets.” entertainment capital of the world, members of this thriving community Ian Burke, chief executive of Rank
A native of Lithuania, Bitinaite we can build upon our success in for many years to come,” she added. said: “I am delighted to welcome
most recently was the corporate Mark to Rank and I look forward to
marketing executive and a member
Financiers see PlayAway potential
working with him as we seek to
of the board of directors of Grand unlock growth opportunities in the
Casino World, a major luxury
G
ameLogic has received $3.0 across the United States. gaming market, both in the UK
entertainment and gaming complex million of debt financing from "Our ability to proactively raise and overseas.”
in Lithuania. Velocity Financial Group, Inc. debt on favorable terms in these
Before working at Grand Casino GameLogic uses popular Internet- turbulent economic times is a
World, she was the marketing based game content to testament to our solid
Gauselmann goes
projects coordinator for Cilija, help casinos attract business model and the
for Merkur refurb
operator of a chain of 80 new players and interact tremendous opportunity
restaurants in six countries in with existing players while they are to leverage the popularity of Internet
Eastern Europe. off property, wit the aim of materially games in the regulated US gambling
increasing casino property visitation. markets," said John E. Taylor, Jr., G
auselmann recently re-opened
a refurbished Merkur Casino,
which is in Prague’s Cerny
Gary Platt’s new
GameLogic’s PlayAway system president and hief executive officer Most shopping mall.
operates at regulated casinos of GameLogic. During the makeover work, which
sales manager
gave the casino a completely new
Waffletechnology for TransAct kit
look, the gaming floor area was
Gary Platt increased from 600m
2
to almost
Manufacturing
A
new cleaning card system increase efficiency and reduce 1,000m
2
. “This Merkur Casino is our
has promoted makes cleaning TransAct’s regular maintenance costs. largest location in a European
Mike Yabroff to Epic 850 and 950 ticket Epic 950 and Epic 850 Ticket country outside Germany, and it’s
the position of printers quicker and Printers can now be also the biggest electronic casino in
Regional Sales cheaper, according to effectively cleaned, easily the Czech Republic,” explained Rolf
Manager. Mike TransAct and cleaning and quickly, without opening Klug, member of the board of
is a recent graduate of the card maker KICTeam. the printer. Gauselmann AG who attended the
University of Nevada who has been The TransAct “TransAct Technologies Cerny Most opening ceremony.
with Gary Platt Manufacturing since Technologies Cashless has introduced this new Merkur Casino is a subsidiary of
1997, working all aspects of the Ticket Printer Cleaning Cleaning Card System as the family-managed Gauselmann
company from inside sales to System, designed using part of an overall preventive Group, and began launching Merkur-
production. Mike will be serving Waffletechnology, has been maintenance program,” said Jim branding entertainment centers in the
Colorado, Montana and Northern developed to allow gaming Stetson, TransAct Senior Vice Czech Republic in 1992. There are
Nevada. properties and retail outlets to President. 22 Merkur casinos in the Republic.
8 JANUARY 2009
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