France Mourns the Passing of a Visionary EMEA
Romania - Greentube partners Game World Greentube has further expanded its footprint in Romania after going live with local operator Game World.
The deal is part of Greentube’s existing partnership with Stanleybet, which operates the Game World Group brands in Romania. Game World has been running land-based casino activities in Romania since 1999 and operates the largest gambling hall in the country, Game World Bucharest Mall, where its extensive customer base is already familiar with NOVOMATIC’s land-based titles.
Greentube has significantly grown its presence in the country over the last few months after signing deals with several licensed operators including Baumbet and Mozzartbet.
Michael Bauer, CFO/CGO of Greentube, said: “The Romanian market is going from strength to strength for us, with our content proving very popular with a wide demographic of local players. We are thrilled to now go live with yet another well-established local brand and we look forward to working together to provide players with an exciting and thrilling gaming experience.”
Attila Török, Strategy Director at Game World, said: “Greentube’s fantastic games portfolio offers a combination of the strong land-based titles that our customers have a great affinity to, together with the latest online releases which offer innovative features and exciting game play. Its diverse range of content will be a valuable addition to our existing offering.”
South Africa - Kiron debuts with Jika Sports Kiron Interactive has become the first supplier to provide virtual content online in South Africa, after launching its Jika Sports portfolio with all major betting operators in the market.
First introduced with retail operators in September 2019, the Jika Sports brand, which offers localised versions of Kiron’s virtual football and horse racing products, will now be available for local players to enjoy online.
The action-packed Jika Soccer game is available in English, Italian, and Spanish league formats, while Jika Racing consists of Kiron’s thrilling market leading suite of racing games, including horse racing, motor racing, jumps and greyhound racing.
The company’s online debut in South Africa builds on a period of strong commercial growth and completes a trio of recent first-to-market launches in regulated territories, after it premiered virtual content to players in Spain and Colombia.
Steven Spartinos, co-CEO of Kiron, said: “Being the first to go live online in our home country with Jika Sports is a great milestone for us and our team, giving testament to the value proposition presented by our strong games portfolio and localised offering.
“South Africa has a long established and successful track record as a key regulated market internationally and the positive uptake of Jika Sports demonstrates the growing demand for fresh content among both players and operators locally.”
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Georges Tranchant, President of France’s casino operator, Tranchant Group, died on Friday, June 5, at the age of 90.
Georges Tranchant, one of the great innovators and leaders in the French casino sector passed last month.
FRANCE CASINO OPERATIONS
Born June 23, 1929 in Château-Porcien, in the Ardennes, Georges Tranchant founded Groupe Tranchant in 1988 and opened his first two casinos in Amnéville and Dunkirk . Shortly after, Mr. Tranchant became the first importer of slots in France, an activity which he continued to develop thanks to his company, Cutting edge Gaming Technology, also opening up the marketing of gaming machines for casinos.
Tranchant now owns 16 casinos in France, one in Switzerland and in Dominican Republic. Te group also opened the first Parisian gaming club. Sylvie Leroy, owner of French casino media company Le Journal des Casinos, said: “Passionate, brilliant and tireless, George Tranchant was always on the alert on so many subjects that interested him, from culture to economics, from gastronomy to aviation to name a tiny part of what made him inexhaustible. Georges Tranchant was one of those rare people, whole and in perpetual reflection, who knew all his life to stay on course towards his objectives with determination and conviction..”
Jean-François Cot, President of the Casinos de France union, said: "Casinos de France is very sorry to announce the death of Georges Tranchant, General Secretary of the union for many years, and for me a mentor, a friend, an almost paternal reference. Everyone knows Georges Tranchant, this tireless creator of businesses, everyone may no longer know how
Landesmedienanstalt Saarland blocks online firms from advertising
Germany
Landesmedienanstalt Saarland (LMS), the media and gambling regulator for the German state of Saarland has taken steps to ban two online gaming operators licensed in Schleswig-Holstein from advertising in the state.
Te LMS became the first gaming supervisory authority to issue prohibitions against two providers of online casino games with a license from the state of Schleswig-Holstein on the basis of the applicable State Treaty on Gaming. Tese prohibit the two providers from
he started when he was barely 15 years old, a volunteer fighter, resistant, and very active in the Ardennes in connection with the Americans. In the US, still a kid, he met Albert Einstein, became interested in electronics and, returning to France at 20, created his first company, the Société Générale d'Electronique Tranchant.
“Tis taste for technology would not leave him and his knowledge, acquired on the job, led him to a perfect mastery of everything that contributed to the creation and then the development of a business. Te self-taught Georges Tranchant was passionate about accounting, taxation and law, becoming in each of these areas a formidable specialist, for his close advisers of course, his competitors too and even more for the administration.
“He would relentlessly develop his activities, sometimes experiencing failures, but always restarting with the energy and acuity of his exceptional mind. Te creation of the Tranchant group, operating both in the design and import of slot machines and then in the operation of casinos, marked the beginning of the period when the casino sector was recognized as being responsible and respectable industry. He became a city councilor in Colombes, then Deputy of Hauts de Seine and President of the prestigious Finance Committee of the National Assembly. He cultivated his passion for art and, having heard him talk about painting with a friend, I can testify to his exceptional erudition.”
advertising in Saarland for public gambling that is not permitted on the Internet in Saarland.
Schleswig-Holstein itself had promised to limit the advertising of these offers when its online casino licenses were revived. In particular, providers with a Schleswig- Holstein license should pay attention to the proportionality of advertising in the form of nationwide receivable means of communication for regional commercial communication.
In practice, from the LMS point of view, this limitation is no longer noticeable: TV advertising for gaming options at these online casinos takes place in a far too large number of private TV programmes.
Germany
On June 15, the casinos in Bad Neuenahr and Bad Dürkheim in Rhineland-Palatinate reopened part of their traditional games rooms with a specially-designed, screen-protected roulette game in operation, although card games, including blackjack and poker remained closed. Slots have been operating at the casinos in Bad Neuenahr, Bad Dürkheim and Nürburg since May 27, following a nine-week shut down. Te casinos are well equipped for the restart with the stipulations of the Infection Protection Act being observed to protect guests and employees. Te roulette tables have been converted so that a maximum of four guests can play and each has their own separate, screen- protected play area.
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