Your elder brother Richard joined the company after this first large order and still serves as Managing Director with your father acting as Chairman. Can you tell us how this came about?


My brother had been to art college and was working in a sales job for a telecommunications company but assisted our father with this first large order before joining full-time soon after. Richard is an extremely creative person and has been responsible for some of our most important innovations. Obviously, our father provides a whole lifetime’s wealth of precision engineering and production experience but Richard’s creativity sparked the integration of electronics to increase our product range and market reach.


In 2008, we won the award for innovation at the Gaming Awards for our Slingshot 2 automated roulette product, which is the only wheel to feature our patented system where the ball remains in view at all times. We are also the only company to offer in-rim sensor technology in our manual Mercury 360 wheels where there is no visible light such as lasers or flashing sensors for a truly discreet solution. So, it is Richard’s understanding of the product combined with his ability to look a little bit deeper in a creative fashion that has coalesced with my father’s precision engineering expertise to drive our market-leading position.


Your mother, Barbara, serves as the firm’s Company Secretary and so you became the fourth family member to join Cammegh Limited when you were enlisted in 2003. Did you have any second-thoughts about entering the ‘family business’?


I joined eight years ago after working in a number of sales and marketing roles including at Technical Casino Supplies from 1995 to 1997. Being our family’s firm, I had a very good understanding of the history and development of the business and the way in which my father and Richard were constantly looking to refine and research new manufacturing techniques and the materials used in our wheels. We are a very close family and I was always inquisitive and interested why certain manufacturing decisions were made and found the whole thing very absorbing. When I joined, my father was approaching 65 and thinking about retiring. Both my father and Richard knew well of my background in sales and marketing and so we were really a natural fit, complimenting each other in terms of what we could offer the business. My dad retired from the day-to-day running of the business when he was about 70 and so that intervening period gave me


Andrew Cammegh with state of the art CNC lathe


plenty of time to get up-to-speed with the direction that the company was going in. By this I mean in terms of embracing technology and electronics while also looking to broaden our market. My time at the company has been a satisfying and extremely rewarding period for all of us in terms of the excitement of developing world-leading roulette wheels and breaking new ground in innovation and techniques. While there was as with any new job a ‘bedding-in’ period, my brother and father have always been incredibly supportive and I have never had any second thoughts. This is an enjoyable and positive working environment and I look forward to the future.


What is it about your roulette wheels that set them apart from those of your competitors?


There are many, many differences between our products and those from our competitors. We pride ourselves on taking a no compromise approach in terms of our manufacturing techniques and the materials that we use. Every single surface, detail and component has been thought about and considered in great detail. We are the only company to manufacture manual roulette wheels utilising our own state-of-the-art CNC machines. These new machines allow us to do our own metal work including milling and turning in our own factory to engineering tolerances that are as close as one-thousandth of an inch or closer than a tenth of a tenth of a millimetre. We are also responsible for the calibration and set-up of these CNC machines and don’t outsource this most important and sensitive part of the manufacturing process taking absolute ownership and


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