GAMING FOR AFRICA Peermont Launches Ground-breaking Winners Circle App
Rewards Programme App is first to offer Wallet Functionality to Casino Guests in South Africa
Casino and hospitality leader Peermont has launched a ground-breaking app of its Rewards Programme, Winners Circle. The app is the first in South Africa and possibly world-wide to offer wallet and transactional functionality to its casino players. Winners Circle is the Rewards Programme to all
Peermont’s resorts, including its flagship property Emperors Palace and the app now allows players direct access to their account from their mobile phone, providing convenience and ease of use. ‘We’re immensely proud of this milestone - service
has always been a priority to us,’ says Peermont CEO Nigel Atherton. ‘This pioneering breakthrough will make our players’ lives so much easier without having to queue at an ATM or the Cash Desk. Now all they have to do is log into the app and make a transaction and almost instantly they can enjoy themselves at our casino. Plus, with the reality of social distancing, we feel its our duty to provide an alternative to limit unnecessary person to person interaction.’
Not only is the Peermont Winners Circle app like
having a Cashdesk at your fingertips, it also allows users to check their rewards points balance, receive notifications, upload required documents and participate in surveys. ‘The Winners Circle app is game changer for us,’
says Peermont Chief Information Officer Nick Truran. ‘With mobile banking and shopping becoming more
prevalent in today’s tech-savvy society why not top adopt the same convenience with your casino account? Our focus continues to be maintaining the highest security standards, so you can rest assured your information and funds are safe with us.’ The Winners Circle app makes use of reCaptcha
and SSL encryption, as well as multi-factor authentication all within the React Native Mobile App Development Framework to ensure guests have peace of mind. ‘This project with Peermont Resorts is a great example of the strong partnership that we have shared for many years,’ said Sethuram Shivashankar, Senior VP and General Manager for Gaming Systems at Scientific Games. ‘Their implementation of the Unified Wallet will enable Peermont to provide a frictionless Omni-channel gaming experience to players contributing to increased player loyalty and improving the efficiency at their resorts.’ ‘This is just phase one and we’re looking forward to
many more innovative additions to this app to ensure our player continue to have exciting times. Watch this space!’ concludes Atherton.
GrandWest Lends a Hand with Back to School
In collaboration with the Western Cape provincial education department and NGO New Build Relationships, GrandWest Casino and Entertainment World provided school uniforms for 1141 learners from Mokone Primary and Langa High School in late December — a donation worth R600 000. “With Covid-19 and the downturn in the
economy, many people are in dire need of even the basics of school essentials. By supporting this cause, we hope to give a confident start to the new academic year,” said GrandWest General Manager Mervyn Naidoo.
Casino Lion Opens in Madagascar
The latest Casino Marina operation opened its doors in Antananarivo, Madagascar on 23 December 2020 in style. The casino is located on the 5th floor of the Globe Center Behoririka, the oldest and largest shopping center in Antananarivo and adds to the more than 450 shops to satisfy young and old, and a food court with rooftop terrace. Casino Lion is the tenth casino to open for the
Casino Marina group. The casino offers 60 upmarket gaming machines and automatic roulette with progressive jackpots and floor-wide Mystery Jackpots through the ACE System and 11 live table games offering Poker, Blackjack, Roulette and Baccarat. Herman Franklin, the regional General Manager
in Madagascar and oversaw the project from inception including the ceremonial candle lighting on opening night.
Herman had this to say: “I’m really proud of my
team here in Tana, who despite limited working conditions due to the COVID-19 pandemic pulled this installation off. Of course this would not been possible without the tremendous support we got from Lennie Govender from ACES.” Due to COVID-19 travel restrictions The entire
installation was conducted by the Casino Marina staff in Madagascar with remote assistance from the ACE Team in South Africa. “It really was a superb effort by the operations staff in Antananarivo and the ACE team based in Johannesburg,” commented Cliff Lamberton from ACES. Production and logistics were managed by Elzette Lotriet and Denise Carlisle respectively under difficult conditions with limited production capacity as a result of lockdown and infrequent freight, but they got the hardware built and
sent, which left it up to Tom and his team and Kurt Roman from ACES. All training was conducted through ACES online training portal, which offer course bundles for the various job roles in the casino, course of each ACE module and all the webinar recordings. All course on the ACE training portal are free and can be accessed from any device with an internet connection:
https://aces-training.thinkific.com/
FEBRUARY 2021 23 “Also, well done to GrandWest’s Team
Sustainability,” said Mervyn. “Who held a sod turning at Valhalla Secondary in partnership with PSFA. GrandWest sponsored R200 000 for a container to be used as a kitchen, which when fitted out will amount to a 20square-metre fully-fledged kitche unit.” The prefab structure will contain a double sink, stainless steel worktops and windows with burglar bars, extractor fan, hot water, gas will be connected as well as fire fighting equipment. The school will be able use this kitchen to prepare meals daily for their learners.
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