News INTERNATIONAL UPDATE Ovalle attracts new bidders
Spains’ Invergaming and Argentina’s Boldt join forces in a bid for the Ovalle casino licence
Argentinean casino group Boldt is teaming up with Spanish entertainment company Invergaming to bid for the operating licence up for grabs in the town of Ovalle. Their proposed project, Ovalle Casino Resort, would keep the licence in Ovalle, some 500 km north of the capital, Santiago, where its original recipient Casinos Austria International, had planned to develop. CAI relinquished the licence in March 2012, paving the way for the new licence tender.
A Boldt spokesperson said: “Boldt Group, in partnership with Invergaming, has decided to participate in the bidding for a casino license in Ovalle. Both companies have a strong track record managing casinos in Spain, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, and consider the Chilean market an interesting prospect.”
Operators had until February 28 to the lodge their interest in the license with the Superintendent confirming their investment and proposed location. The final project details must be submitted before March 30 with the licence expected
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Currently 24 casinos are in
operation in Chile, 17 of them were
authorised by the Board Process
Resolving in 2006
and 2008, while the remaining seven are for municipal grants.
to be awarded in the summer. Boldt runs five gaming properties located in Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Mar del Plata and Miramar whilst Invergaming has operations in Barcelona and other cities in Spain. The two groups have already partnered in developing casinos in Uruguay. The tender is expected to be competitive. The Head of the Department of Community Planning for the Municipality of Ovalle, Angelo Montano, said there were three or four private companies showing real interest.
The 2013 Granting Process Operating Permit began on January 2. The bidding though is not limited to Ovalle. Interested operators can pitch their request anywhere in Chile that still has casinos available. Each region can have a maximum of three casinos, meaning the regions of Valparaíso, Bío Bío and Los Lagos are all off limits. But there are also geographical restrictions such as not allowing new style casinos in metropolitan areas or in the town of Arica. Casinos also have to be developed at least 70km from their nearest rival.
Crown Gaming agrees Octavian deal for Peru
The Peruvian Novomatic Group company, Crown Gaming, has signed a contract confirming it as the official non-exclusive distributor for Octavian products in Peru.
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Novomatic has achieved the group’s preferred dual business strategy of being an operator as well as a supplier of gaming equipment in the Peruvian casino sector, operating 14 high class gaming operations in Peru under official licenses of the Ministry of External Trade and Tourism (MINCETUR) with consistent investments in existing and new locations.
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systems and progressives. Its Accounting Control Progressives (ACP) System is modular and so highly ‘tuneable’ to the requirements of operators and the pertaining regulations in various jurisdictions and has proved highly popular, particularly in South-America.
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MyACP is only the third system to be granted full official homologation through MINCETUR and as such enjoys a very privileged position in this new market segment. The latest developments in the Peruvian gaming market call for comprehensive casino management systems to be implemented in all gaming operations nationwide.
IL GRUPPO ARGENTINO DI CASINÒ Boldt si unisce alla società spagnola di intrattenimento Invergaming per pre- sentare un’offerta per la licenza di esercizio disponibile nella città di Ovalle. Il progetto da essi proposto, Ovalle Casino Resort, manterrebbe la licenza a Ovalle, circa 500 km a nord della capitale Santiago, dove progettava di costruire il detentore originale della licenza, Casinos Austria International. CAI ha rinunciato alla licenza nel marzo del 2012, aprendo la strada alla nuova offerta di licenza.
WILLIAM HILL HA FIRMATO CON OpenBet un accordo che le fornirà una licenza aziendale e piena assistenza dedi- cata per ‘Promote,’ il software di nuova generazione per la visualizzazione di scommesse di OpenBet.
INSPIRED GAMING GROUP HA iniziato l’iter per l’omologazione degli sport virtuali in Italia, come annunciato da AAMS a febbraio. Inspired ha già firmato accordi relativi a licenze per sport virtuali con sei operatori italiani di primo piano: SNAI, Sisal, Eurobet, Intralot, Cogetech e Lottomatica, che rappresentano circa il 90 per cento del mercato italiano delle scommesse.
IL GIOCO D’AZZARDO FA ROTTA sullo stato indipendente di Samoa, dove l’ente per il controllo del gioco d’azzardo assegna le sue prime due licenze di gioco. I casinò saranno aperti a Upolu, una minuscola isola della parte occidentale dell’arcipelago samoano, situato nell’Oceano Pacifico meridionale. L’ente ha assegnato licenze complete a Aggie Greys Beach Resort e al gruppo cinese Exhibition Tourism.
BALLY TECHNOLOGIES RENDERÀ disponibile online le sue slot mediante un accordo con OpenBet. I primi giochi online saranno disponibili già questo mese, con titoli come Vegas Hits, Tiger Treasures, Cupid and Psyche e Mayan Treasures.
IGT HA ANNUNCIATO CHE IGT CLOUD diventerà operativo il mese prossimo in 10 casinò Grosvenor. Grosvenor potrà utiliz- zare le caratteristiche di IGT Cloud sia local- mente che centralmente, rendendo così possibili decisioni tempestive riguardo ai mix di gioco ottimali, mentre la potenza degli strumenti di analisi aiuterà ad ottenere preziose informazioni sul rendi- mento del prodotto.
SHFL ENTERTAINMENT HA acquistato ProTec Games, un fornitore di contenuti informatizzati per slot da casinò, giochi da tavolo e videogiochi online. ProTec ha sede a Qingdao, in Cina, e continuerà a svilup- pare risorse grafiche e a sviluppare e testare software per le slot machine di SHFL e per altri prodotti elettronici.
GAMING LABORATORIES International (GLI), laboratorio sperimentale e consulen- za tecnica, ha pubblicato un aggiornamen- to fondamentale del suo standard tecnico GLI-19 per sistemi di gioco interattivi, la prima serie di standard comuni per la regolamentazione tecnica dei mercati dell’iGaming. La nuova versione 2.0 del GLI-19 comprende le migliori pratiche adot- tate in giurisdizioni regolamentate degli USA, del Canada e di vari Paesi europei.
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