G3-247 Report MEXICO - PART TWO
• Sabia Corporation is based in Panama and the parent company of the DEK brand of Live Game Progressive systems and supplies slots and live games equipment to South American, USA and Eastern Europe. The company owns and operates a casino in Queretaro, Mexico under the Fantastic brand which opened in April 2008 and has 350 machines. The company will open a second Fantastic casino in Leon this year which will hold 300 machines. The company also distributes for the likes of BluBeri, Casino Technology, Magic Dreams and IGS.
Meanwhile, there are a host of companies selling into Mexico. Global Gaming Systems was one of the first companies in Mexico to offer high tech equipment for the industry. It has some 10,000 terminals connected in 29 venues which are connected to the Global Management System and 7,000 due to be installed. The company launched Virtual Casino in Mexico last year.
The company entered the Mexican market in 2007 and 6 6
has created products for the Mexican and Latin American markets specifically.
At the end of last year, the Gauselmann Group and long time Spanish partner Jose Luis Gonzales founded the subsidiary Merkur Gaming Mexico which is 51 per cent owned by Gauselmann and headquartered in Mexico City.
The company will now develop the jointly operated network of gaming machine installations, which stands at around 1,000 presently with the aim of expanding its business here. The company aims to extend in this mar- ket and use this location as a base for other neighbour- ing casinos markets in Panama and the Caribbean.
COO Thomas Niehenke said: “Given the current volume of about 120,000 machines, the potential for 250,000 machines is realistic in this growing market without a doubt. We are certain that we will be successful since we are working with Jose Luis Gonzalez, who has
01 Between 2001 and 2002 the Mexican economy grew by just 2.1 per cent per year, the lowest rate of growth of any big Latin American economies and even lower than during the crisis ridden PRI years in the 80s and 90s. Fox had promised seven per cent growth during his campaign.
02 Drug trafficking and narcotic related activities are a huge problem in Mexico. Under his administration, Calderon launched a huge battle against drug traffickers and it is said more than 35,000 have died in drug related violence since his campaign began in 2006.
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