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EUROPEAN UPDATE WMS deliver on Italian promise
WMS Gaming leverages its relationship with Cogetech in the Italian VLT market
WMS Gaming showcased its new Video Lottery Terminal products for the Italian market at the Cogetech booth in Rimini at the ENADA Spring show. “Thanks to our relationship with Cogetech WMS was able to showcase its VLT solutions to the Italian market,” said Sebastian Salat, President, WMS International. “WMS continues to expand its presence in international markets and we are delighted to make our renewed entry into the Italian VLT market. By leveraging Cogetech’s relationships and capabilities, we can bring our innovative player- appealing gaming content and entertainment experiences to this market.”
The WMS product line-up on display at the Cogetech booth featured the company’s player-favourite G+ series,
E-Service receive positive feedback
E-Service Italia (E-SI) has made an immediate and very positive impact in the Italian gaming sector, and has earned significant support from operators and manufacturers, who have been appreciative of E-SI’s customer-focused philosophy. E-SI is already repairing hundreds of client- owned items each month, including coin validators, hoppers, bill acceptors, TFTs and printers and all items are returned to clients with a full 90-day guarantee. “The feedback has been very positive and constructive” said Managing Director Colin Veitch. “Our team in Bologna has been working extremely hard to deliver the E-Service package of benefits in Italy, and I am delighted these efforts are being recognised by our clients.” Highly popular has been E-SI’s ability to offer service and repair under major manufacturers’ factory warranty – for example, Italian clients are able to have JCM bill acceptors, TransAct printers and other core products repaired under warranty at the E-SI facility in Bologna, saving time and money.
Laura Manzella, in keeping with the continuous expansion of the Novomatic Group across the South- American continent, has been named as AGI
Argentina S.A.’s new Marketing Manager. In her new position with AGI Argentina, Ms. Manzella will be responsible for the planning, control and realisation of marketing projects, events co-ordination as well as market observation, market development and related reporting.
WMS Gaming’s Henry
Krawczyk pictured at the Rimini ENADA
Spring show with Cogetech’s Game
Content Manager, Ines Le Ricque.
including the Jewels of the Night, Thai Treasures, Neptune’s Kingdom II, Roman Dynasty and Black Knight themes. The G+ series features volatile, free-spin- based gameplay with a streamlined interface. A big reel symbol, large win meters and “Big Win” audio creates a high-energy game designed to help celebrate the win.
The WMS inclusion of its VLT products at the Cogetech booth is part of the relationship the two companies announced in November 2010 to have WMS VLTs reintroduced to the Italian market through Cogetech.
Gauselmann party funds shown ‘legal and honest’
On Tuesday April 12, 2011, Germany’s Bielefeld public prosecutor’s staff visited the Gauselmann Group’s premises. The visit was prompted by public speculation concerning the legality of contributions to political parties by Gauselmann Group managers. The public prosecutor examined comprehensive documentation of such contributions from 2005 to 2011. The public prosecutor’s staff also questioned leading managers at the Gauselmann Group who had made party contributions. They concluded that all such contributions could be clearly assigned to the persons making them. Likewise, the political parties were correctly informed of the
procedure upon receipt of the contributions – that these were single donations from company employees and merely being forwarded by the company. This meets all German legal requirements.
On conclusion of this investigation the matter was dropped, as the legal and factual circumstances so warranted. Company founder Paul Gauselmann, expected no other conclusion. He stated that he understood that the authorities had to investigate the matter thoroughly, not least in his own interest. “I’m pleased my employees and my company have been shown to be entirely innocent of any wrongdoing” he concluded.
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Blueprint Gaming has announced an agreement under which the slots developer will further strengthen its partnership with William Hill. The two companies have enjoyed a long standing relationship both profiting from the quality and performance of Blueprint’s slot games, which are deployed across William Hill’s UK Retail Betting Operation. Under the new agreement a number of these top performing games, including Cop the Lot and Super Diamond Deluxe, will be released on
Williamhill.com The agreement has also seen Blueprint’s online portfolio of leading branded slots rolled out with the online operator. Initially this has included Zuma and Chuzzle, under license from POPCAP, along with VIZ, a slot based on the popular risqué comic. Matt Cole, Commercial Director at Blueprint, said: “We have worked very successfully with William Hill in retail and are now delighted to be broadening this relationship by bringing proven offline games to the online environment.” Colin Cole-Johnson, Egaming Director at William Hill Online, added: “Blueprint has quickly built up a reputation as a premier developer and we are working well together. The opportunity to bring these successful titles to our online players is something that we’re very excited about.”
Casinos Austria released its consolidated revenue figures last month to show that the group had performed well in the challenging 2010 business year. Consolidated revenues slightly rose again in 2010 to €3.188 billion ($4.53 million) after the record year of 2009 (€3.181 billion). The 12 Austrian casinos were not spared a noticeable decline in revenues, particularly in the first half of the year: after €276 million ($393 million) in 2009 revenues fell in 2010 to €258 million ($367 million). Visitor figures, however, achieved an increase of 1.17 per cent to 2.36 million guests. Net earnings for Casinos Austria AG were €5.62 million ($8 million) in 2010, after €8.06 million ($11.50 million) in 2009. The company made some major investments, including the construction of new casinos in Brussels and Hanover, in addition to investments in its online business as well as market launches in Great Britain and Italy.
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