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Kansas Lottery Sets New Record for Sales! TOPEKA, Kansas, USA (July 10, 2006) -- The Kansas Lottery has recorded its best year yet, with sales reaching $236.3 million at the end of the fiscal year on June 30, 2006. That means the Lottery will transfer $67 million to the State in FY06. Instant Tickets led the way, with $107.7 million in sales. Pull Tabs were up more than 60 percent from last year. Larger, faster-growing jackpots in Powerball also contributed to higher ticket sales, with sales topping $54.4 million for the year. Here’s a breakdown of FY06 sales, by game, compared to the year before.
Kansas Lottery Executive Director Ed Van Petten says the healthy increase in instant ticket sales is due, at least in part, to the Lottery’s new family of Made in Kansas tickets.
“Kansans have truly embraced our Kansas-themed tickets promoting Kansas businesses and tourism,” said Van Petten. “Our Kansas Chopper ticket offered a Big Dog Motorcycle made in Wichita as a grand prize; two of our players won Chevy Malibus manufactured in Kansas City, Kan., in our Made in Kansas game; and Golf Giveaway sent 25 of our players and their guests to the U.S. Senior Open in Hutchinson this weekend. All of these tickets were very well-received by players, and we hope to see the same support for other Kansas-themed tickets.” Van Petten also attributes the increase in sales to the Lottery’s new Auto-Ship system, which automatically replaces packs of lottery tickets, ensuring that each retailer always has an adequate supply of the newest and most popular games. “Kansans like to play the lottery and that translates into real support for our economy, our veterans and various state services,” said Governor Kathleen Sebelius. “People are having fun while helping our communities at the same time.” Profits from the sale of Veterans Benefit instant games were $717,112 in FY06 – up from $701,164 in FY05. Sales from Veterans Benefit tickets provide direct funding for Kansas Veterans’ programs and Kansas National Guard scholarships. Most Lottery revenue is earmarked for state economic development programs. Some revenue goes to the State General Fund, the Juvenile Detention Facilities Fund and the Correctional Institutions Building Fund. The Problem Gambling Grand Fund receives $80,000.
“The Kansas Lottery is very grateful to our players, our retailers and our marketing partners – we couldn’t do any of this without them.” Van Petten said. “And we look forward to having another great year in FY07.” The Kansas Lottery celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2007. Voters approved a constitutional amendment authorizing the creation of a state lottery in 1986. The Legislature passed the Kansas Lottery Act, and lottery sales began in November of 1987. SOURCE: Kansas Lottery. ATHENS, Greece (July 11, 2006) -- INTRALOT recently concluded to an agreement with Hamburg’s State Lottery “LOTTO HAMBURG” –the state lottery of Hamburg which has been operating for more than 50 years, with 530 POS and €213,6 M. in sales- concerning a very important pilot project. The agreement entails the customization and installation of LOTOS, the base platform of INTRALOT’s integrated gaming management system along with the POS terminal software. The installation will provide LOTTO HAMBURG with a modern state-of-the-art central system. Conversion to the new and technologically advanced system will commence within the first semester of 2007.
INTRALOT will assume the cost of the entire investment for LOTOS adaptation to the principles and traits that govern the German gaming market, as well as of the maintenance needed during the pilot project. The innovative LOTOS software application platform has been designed and developed exclusively by INTRALOT, utilizing state-of-the-art tools and techniques. LOTOS has already been installed in over 20 countries worldwide and is internationally recognized as one of the most advanced and reliable open-architecture solutions. According to Siegfried Spies, Managing Director of LOTTO HAMBURG, this is undoubtedly the right step at the right moment: “Our objective is to become technologically innovative and flexible whilst continuously providing absolute security in the processes of the games business. On that basis we have repositioned ourselves strategically in terms of IT. As a small lottery company, it is essential for us that our business processes and infrastructure are efficient and effective. For that reason it is important for us that the software products we use are available and further developed on the market as standardised products; individual adjustments of individual solutions simply would be too costly and time-consuming for us”. INTRALOT’s CEO, Mr. Constantinos Antonopoulos, stated: “We would like to thank LOTO HAMBURG, one of the most progressive lotteries in Germany, for this cooperation. We are sure that INTRALOT will deliver a result that will meet the Lottery’s high quality standards and thus will justify the Lottery’s entrustment of the modernization of its gaming central system. Furthermore, our investment in this project will be the “vaulting horse” for our future activity in Germany as well as the strengthening of our presence in the E.U.” ABOUT LOTO HAMBURG (www.lotto-hh.de)
ABOUT INTRALOT (www.intralot.com) SOURCE: INTRALOT media release. Betware to Open New Regional Office in British Columbia, Canada REYKJAVÍK, Iceland (June 30, 2006) -- Betware is currently planning to expand into Canada. It will soon open an office in the town of Kamloops, a short plane journey from Vancouver, British Columbia.
This regional office will support the programming and development work Betware currently undertakes at its Iceland headquarters for the British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC). The Betware office will be located within the same building which houses the BCLC offices and will run to a capacity of four to five programmers in the beginning with a view to add more. “Betware has been doing extensive work for BCLC since they became our client two years ago,” said Ivar Unnthorsson, Project Manager at Betware, “We have provided them with the gaming platform and several sports, numbers and instant games. We are constantly improving our solution and our existing cache of games and developing new ones.” The expansion would mean hiring Canadian programmers who would be better equipped to work and live in the local area. Betware would initially send a team of experts to train the new employees and help them understand the company’s solutions and services. The Kamloops office will be the second regional office for the company. Betware already has one branch office in Copenhagen, Denmark and its headquarters are based in Reykjavik, Iceland.
About Betware (www.betware.com) Betware is a software and services company that specializes in providing technical solutions to gaming companies operating in fully regulated jurisdictions. Betware has a wide product line, covering most sports betting, lottery and casino games offered on different channels such as on-line retailer system, Internet and mobile. Betware’s flexible application program interface (API) allows independent third party gaming developers and operators to create their own games on top of Betware’s core services. About British Columbia Lottery Corporation (www.bclc.com) The British Columbia Lottery Corporation was incorporated in 1984, but started selling its first lottery ticket in 1974 under the Western Canada Lottery Foundation. It currently employs 560 people with sales reaching well over one million Canadian dollars (for 2004). It has 4,500 lottery retailers, 18 casinos and 29 bingo halls besides the games offered on the Internet. SOURCE: Betware. New Jersey Lottery Resumes Play with Signing of Executive Order TRENTON, New Jersey, USA (July 8, 2006) -- New Jersey Lottery Executive Director Michellene Davis, Esquire, released the following statement today after Governor Jon Corzine signed an Executive Order for an orderly re-opening of State government operations:
“With the signing of the executive order, the New Jersey Lottery has been authorized to resume normal operations. “On behalf of the New Jersey Lottery, I would like to thank our valued players and agents for their patience and understanding during the shutdown period. “Holders of winning Lottery Tickets may visit an authorized Lottery retailer for ticket validation and prize payment. Lottery offices will re-open on Monday to resume receiving and processing any claims above $599. “Daily broadcast of the New Jersey Lottery drawings will resume on Sunday, July 9, 2006 with the airing of the live midday Lottery Drawings on New Jersey Network at 12:57 pm.” SOURCE: New Jersey Lottery media release. NEW YORK, USA (July 12, 2006) -- Scientific Games [Nasdaq: SGMS] has been awarded a contract to supply a new internet system to Lotterie-Treuhandgesellschaft mbH, the German state lottery of Hessen. Players will be able to use the Internet to purchase Lotto, Oddset, Keno, GlucksSpirale, Toto and other lottery games. The new system is expected to be delivered in October 2006. The new system will add stronger graphics and flash animation in a major upgrade of the existing ELOS system. New features will also be added to enhance player services and promote responsible gaming. "Internet operations will be of growing importance to lotteries everywhere, so we are pleased to be working to keep the Hessen state lottery a pacesetter in developing new Internet capabilities for state lotteries," said Lorne Weil, Chairman and CEO of Scientific Games.
"We have been pleased with the performance of the ELOS system, and are confident in working with Scientific Games to make the Internet experience even more appealing to our customers while at the same time supporting the responsible gaming approach," said Dr. Heinz-Georg Sundermann, Managing Director of Lotterie-Treuhandgesellschaft mbH Hessen. About Scientific
Games SOURCE: Scientific Games media
release. SAZKA, a.s., Terminals Accept Paying in Slips of ČEZ Group and Česká podnikatelská pojišťovna CZECH REPUBLIC (July 11, 2006) -- Starting from July, people can pay for the services of the ČEZ Group power utility and the premium of the Česká podnikatelská pojišťovna, a.s., insurer using the appropriate paying in slips and invoices at SAZKA, a.s., terminals. The new service complements the portfolio of non-lottery activities of SAZKA, a.s., which include particularly topping up pay-as-you-go mobile phones (2002), ticket sales (2004) and a sales module (2006).
The payments can be made using paying in slips, payment documents and invoices with a barcode designed for SAZKA, a.s., terminals. After the customer hands over the payment document or invoice to the terminal worker, the terminal will read the barcode and the customer display will show the basic data (company name, amount to be paid including a transaction fee). After paying the appropriate amount, the customer will receive a receipt and a certificate of the transaction fee payment. With some services providers, customers can use a payment ticket, which they complete and hand over to the terminal worker, instead of a paying in slip or invoice. Since July 2006, invoices, paying in slips and insurance premium payments have been accepted by all SAZKA, a.s., points of sale except the terminals located at the post-offices of Czech Post. The transaction fee is CZK 15. In the first stage, SAZKA, a.s., started to accept paying in slips, invoices and premium payments with two major partners, the ČEZ Group and the insurer Česká podnikatelská pojišťovna, a.s. “We envisage that the number of companies allowing the payment for their services at SAZKA, a.s., terminals will gradually increase,” Chairman of the Board of Directors and General Manager of SAZKA, a.s., JUDr. Aleš Hušák, said. “Some of the greatest benefits of the new service are particularly its availability, simplicity and low fees. The new service can also bring increased revenues and new customers for providers that operate the terminals.” Almost 4,500 SAZKA, a.s., terminals throughout the Czech Republic accept the paying in slips, invoices and premium payments. The system operates every day including Saturdays and Sundays, from 1:15 a.m. until midnight, with SAZKA, a.s., points of sale being located at newspaper and magazine shops, tobacconists, shops that sell other merchandise, fuel stations, some hypermarkets and supermarkets etc. SOURCE: SAZKA, a.s. (http://www.sazka.cz).
MDI Entertainment Goes Coast to Coast to Launch New Games in Washington and Virginia
ALPHARETTA, Georgia, USA (July 7, 2006) -- Washington’s Lottery players are polishing their boots and kicking up their heels this summer with a new Gigtours™ instant ticket featuring some of the hottest country music celebrities around, both new stars and country music veterans. Gigtours games are offered to lotteries exclusively through MDI Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Scientific Games Corporation (NASDAQ: SGMS). The new $10 game features the images of artists such as Gretchen Wilson, Trick Pony, Travis Tritt, Loretta Lynn, Hank Williams Jr., Montgomery Gentry and Buddy Jewell. It features a top cash prize of $50,000 along with the experiential Gigtours trips. Gigtours brings recording artists and music lovers together for a once-in-a lifetime “life on the road” experience by taking fans and their guests on a four day luxury bus trip to the concert of their choice. Each all-inclusive trip includes airfare, concert tickets, VIP credentials, hotel accommodations, meals and drinks. In addition, Gigtours works with artists’ management groups to pre-arrange access to the artist and crew, backstage passes, sound check entrances and meet-and-greets.
To launch the new game, Washington’s Lottery and MDI went all out at one of the biggest country music concerts this summer in Seattle. At the Kenny Chesney/Big n’ Rich/Gretchen Wilson concert on Saturday, June 24, the 45-foot luxury bus pulled up to the Qwest Center and offered fans a chance to purchase Gigtour tickets, tour the bus and spin a prize wheel to win lottery promotional items. With a concert crowd of 50,000 fans, the event paid off. And to top that, one lucky player won a second-chance drawing on-site to go backstage and meet Gretchen Wilson! The event, accompanied by radio promotions leading up to it, was part of an Integrated Marketing campaign designed by the Lottery, its ad agency Publicis and MDI. MDI Entertainment's Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) division offers customers a full-service, comprehensive strategy to help lotteries take their sales to the next level. By coordinating all pieces of a marketing campaign including broadcast, out-of-home, POS, promotions, special events and grass-roots efforts, MDI’s IMC team works one-on-one with lotteries to build product awareness and increase sales. "This coordinated effort between the Washington’s Lottery and MDI Entertainment has been a true win-win for everyone,” said Washington Sales Director David Harrison. "When we first planned for Gigtours, we knew the game would be a success and an enormous benefit to the education programs we fund.”
On the same day as the Washington event, across the country in Virginia, the Virginia Lottery and MDI hosted a HOG Eating contest to support their $10 Harley Davidson Ultimate Ride ticket. Staged at the state wide Harley Davidson H.O.G. (Hog Owners Group) rally in Lynchburg, 12 Harley riders went up against famous champion eaters Eric “Badlands” Booker and Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas to down as many Virginia ham biscuits as possible in eight minutes. The result: The 420-pound Badlands ate 42; The Black Widow, at 100 lbs., consumed 60 for the win; and the third-place “average eater” winner downing 18. Also at the event, the Lottery held a drawing in its Ultimate Ride Own the Road Sweepstakes. The winner, a very excited Padma Machhi, of Forest, VA, won BOTH a Harley-Davidson Fat Boy motorcycle and a 2006 Ford F-150 Harley-Davidson 4x4 truck. “I was very excited and nervous. I was just scared that I didn’t know what I was going to get,” she said, sitting in her new truck. “I’m about to cry.” Machhi said she and her husband intend to keep both vehicles. Steve Saferin, president of MDI Entertainment, said lotteries are continually looking at ways to increase their bottom line while enhancing the play experience and fun for their players. He said MDI’s IMC services are designed to achieve those goals. “Sometimes, launching a game and letting it ride on its own simply isn’t enough to achieve sales goals or ticket awareness,” Saferin said. “But with our IMC efforts, sales will remain strong throughout the life of the game and awareness will remain heightened resulting in strong sales results.”
About Scientific Games Scientific Games Corporation (www.scientificgames.com) is the leading integrated supplier of instant tickets, systems and services to lotteries, and the leading supplier of wagering systems and services to pari-mutuel operators. It is also a licensed pari-mutuel gaming operator in Connecticut and the Netherlands, and is a leading supplier of prepaid phone cards to telephone companies. MDI Entertainment, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Scientific Games Corporation, is the worldwide leader in licensed lottery games and promotions. SOURCE: MDI Entertainment.
The overarching theme for WLA2006 is “Beyond a World of Numbers”. The Convention will revisit the many complex issues that belie what appears to be a simple, straightforward world of numbers. It will stretch our limits beyond known boundaries and offer a fresh take on the issues that continue to challenge us. SUB-THEMES
Monday, 13 November 2006 Tuesday, 14 November 2006 Wednesday, 15 November
2006 NOTE: Each week we will bring you more convention highlights, but in the meantime don’t forget -Registration for the WLA2006 Convention is now open, and remember you must register by September 30 to secure the contracted hotel rates. Register NOW!
Lottery Sales Set New Record, Up 16.5 Percent JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, USA (July 7, 2006) -- Missouri Lottery sales for fiscal year 2006 reached a new record of more than $915* million, surpassing the last fiscal year’s sales by $129.4 million, a 16.5 percent increase. More importantly, record sales in fiscal year 2006 translated into record proceeds to Missouri’s public education programs with more than $260* million transferred to the Lottery Proceeds Fund to benefit various public education programs. Total proceeds to the state, including education, since the Missouri Lottery began are more than $2.7 billion.
"Two things that had a tremendous affect on sales were strong Scratchers sales and several large Powerball jackpots," said Larry Jansen, executive director of the Missouri Lottery. "The Lottery introduced two ’mega’ Scratchers games during the past fiscal year, and these two games increased sales by $1.7 million a week." Jansen also noted that the Powerball jackpot exceeded the $100 million mark on five occasions, including two times when the jackpot exceeded $300 million. "The Missouri Lottery also sold its largest jackpot prize ever during fiscal year 2006, awarding a $224.2 million jackpot to a group of state workers in Florissant," said Jansen. More than $575* million in prizes were awarded to Missouri Lottery players during fiscal year 2006, increasing the total prizes awarded since the Lottery began in 1986 to more than $5.2 billion. Eleven Missouri Lottery tickets worth $1 million or more were sold, awarding jackpots ranging from $1 million to $224.2 million. In all, $285.2 million in jackpot prizes were awarded during the past fiscal year. Thirty-eight Powerball tickets worth $200,000 and 11 tickets worth $100,000 were sold in Missouri during fiscal year 2006. Seventeen SHOW ME 5 Paydown tickets worth $50,000 tax paid were sold. Retailers who sell Missouri Lottery products earned more than $55* million in commissions, incentives and bonuses for selling Missouri Lottery tickets during fiscal year 2006.
FISCAL YEAR SALES HISTORY
FY06 $915,073,186* SOURCE: Missouri Lottery (www.molottery.com) media release. Lottery Dynamics Founder Steps Down from Day-to-Day Operations IRVING, Texas, July 10, 2006 – Robert Wright, founder of both Lottery Dynamics LLC and its sister company Integrated Group Assets, Inc., has announced his retirement as an officer and director of both companies. He will retain a consulting role which will free him from day-to-day operations and provide more time for game design.
“My primary interest is the creative side of the business,” said Wright, 65. “I founded Lottery Dynamics to provide the lottery industry with evolutionary programs designed to boost sales and profits from its core game – Lotto – without having to sacrifice its traditional margins as so many of the newer games do. All of our games are structured around multi-price ticketing which is a first for Lotto in its 30-year history, although price choice has proven to be a key part of the dramatic success of instant games,” Wright added. Lottery Dynamics current suite of proprietary programs include Lotto Gold+™, Lotto Silver+™ and Lotto Platinum+™. Lotto Gold+ is currently licensed to the Ukrainian National Lottery and the province of Misiones in Argentina. Average revenues for the two lotteries are up over 40 percent. For further information, go to www.lotterydynamics.com Lottery Dynamics LLC, based in Irving, Texas, is a company with a mission to re-energize lotto and other lottery games with proprietary programs highlighting player choice, player value and player excitement. The company’s programs work with any matrix and any currency around the world and are designed to build lottery sales by 40-100 percent over current levels. SOURCE: Lottery Dynamics LLC. Media release. New Lottery Pooling Ticket Gives Players More Chances to Win and Boosts States' Revenues PHOENIX, Arizona, USA (July 10, 2006) -- A lottery-products company, Relationship Marketing Systems, LLC (RMS), located in Phoenix, believes they have the answer to every state's sagging, online-lottery sales and lottery player disenchantment with the high odds against winning - it's called PoolingPLUS™. "It's pooling in a ticket," Andrew Amada, President, Relationship Marketing Systems, LLC, (RMS) explained. "One PoolingPLUS ticket combines regular 100% owned lottery plays with a set of pooled plays resulting in a new combination lottery ticket. For lottery players it's the best of both worlds - they can still win it all with their 100% owned plays, but now for just an extra buck, they also have a lot more chances to win a big share of the jackpot with their new pooling plays."
US Lottery statistics taken over the past five years clearly show that online ticket sales have been stagnating or declining across the board, except during very high jackpot periods. States, which have become dependent on the substantial revenues from their online lottery games, are now resorting to ticket discounting, giveaways and even more controversial methods of attracting players, such as casino-like Video Lottery Terminals (VLTs) and self-service ticket dispensers. The latter methods have raised concerns that state's may now be going too far to get the public back into the game. "We are confident that PoolingPLUS, which works with the current online tickets, will bring lost players back to the game and new players into the game because it gives everyone exactly what they want - an affordable way to get more chances to win," according to Mr. Amada. "Even with all the hassles associated with the current way of pooling, everyone sees the benefits. That's why office pools are so popular. Pooling works and that's why we're seeing more and more often it is pools of players that win the big jackpots. The problem is most people don't have access to joining an office pool. The PoolingPLUS ticket removes all the hassles, keeps all the benefits, and makes pooling available to everyone." Here's how PoolingPLUS™ works Whenever you buy a certain number of regular (100% owned) online tickets, you can get into one or more pools of ten more tickets for just a dollar per pool. So, for example, if the offer is buy five regular tickets, you'll then be able to get into a pool of ten more tickets for only one dollar more, making it fifteen chances to win for the price of only six. "From the lottery's perspective, that's the beauty of the program - the lottery sets the minimum number of 100% owned tickets players must first purchase before they can get into a pool. So, it's an incentive to buy online tickets, not a discount or giveaway, yet the players are getting great value for their money. And, lotteries have an unlimited number of possible promotions they can offer just by changing the amount of the qualifying purchase, or the number of pools players can get into. For example, the offer can be 'Buy two and for an extra buck get into a pool of ten,' or 'Buy five and for an extra three bucks get into three pools of ten' - that's thirty-five chances to win for the price of eight," Amada added. So, the question is: "Will lottery players pay an extra buck to get into a pool of ten more tickets." Amada is betting the answer is, "Yes!" PoolingPLUS™ is basically a marketing overlay on the existing structure and software of the online game. A simple sub-routine is added by the lottery (or their online vendor) to their existing software and a pooling option button is added to the retailer's terminal touch screen display. The tickets print the same, but now show two sets of numbers: the 100-percent owned sets, and the pooled sets. There are no game changes and it works with any existing online games.
"It just doesn't get any simpler," Amada comments. "We're confident PoolingPLUS will increase a state lottery's online sales by at least ten to twenty percent. But states don't need to take our word for it. They can download a fully programmed web survey from our website and ask their own players. They can also refer to the July 2006 issue of NASPL's Lottery Insights magazine that presents the latest research by Independent Lottery Research (ILR) strongly suggesting that state lotteries seek out new pooling technology to take advantage of the huge untapped pooling market." NASPL is the US and Canadian organization of state and provincial lotteries. Lottery players who would like to see PoolingPLUS™ offered in their local area should contact their state lottery director's office. For more information on any of the RMS offerings, send an email to info@poolingplus.com, or call (888) 777-5131 or visit: www.poolingplus.com or www.rmswebsite.com. SOURCE: Relationship Marketing Systems, LLC media release. Send2Press® is the originating wire service for this story. MONTRÉAL, Quebec, Canada (July 11, 2006) -- Oberthur Gaming Technologies (“OGT”) announced today that it provided Spelparken AB, Sweden, with a comprehensive solution for the launch of instant lottery tickets in the first quarter of 2006. Spelparken AB is the service company operating the Lottery on behalf of SRF (organization for visually impaired persons in Sweden). The contract includes the manufacturing of instant lottery tickets, the implementation of OGT’s GOLDS (Global Operations and Lottery Distribution System) as well as OGVS (Oberthur Gaming Validation System), a WEB browser validation system developed by OGT and tailored to the specific needs of the Lottery. The GOLDS comprehensive solution installed at Spelparken includes Telemarketing and Ordering, Inventory Control, allowing the Lottery to manage and distribute inventory in a secure, efficient and timely manner. The PC-based software is user-friendly and permits optimal reporting flexibility that is crucial to any Lottery. Exclusive to OGT and officially recognized by Fujitsu Consulting as the best solution offered in the market, GOLDS is a complete product flow logistics management system that incorporates industry best practices and improves lottery operations. The features and functionalities contained within the WEB base validation system, OGVS, enable Spelparken staff to monitor instant ticket validation at retailers in real time via the Internet. The OGVS installation at Spelparken incorporates a high security interface to POS and customized internal financial systems. Javier Merino Carbonell, Manager at Total Gaming Systems and Interim Director during the Spelparken’s start-up, declared “OGT has successfully delivered on time all the critical components allowing us to set up the new charity within three months, in accordance to the original budget and official launch date. In addition, OGT’s comprehensive solution has numerous capabilities and functionalities, and we trust this will bring a great deal of benefits to our new lottery operations.” “We were looking for a complete and modern system that would facilitate the launch of instant lottery tickets and enable us to respond to the market’s demand in a timely manner. OGT’s GOLDS/OGVS has proven the most efficient global system to help us attain our objectives,” added Eva B. Henriksson, CEO of Spelparken AB. “We have been very pleased with the high quality of OGT’s instant tickets as well as with its total dedication to our venture. We are certainly looking forward to continuing our winning business relationship.” “We are truly honored by the confidence Spelparken has placed in our organization,” added Patrick Larocque, Vice-President, Sales and Marketing – EMEA for OGT. “We are extremely pleased to have reached this agreement with Spelparken, and we will ensure that all of our resources focus on the success of this new partnership.”
About Oberthur Gaming
Technologies (www.oberthurgt.com) SOURCE: Lyse Trudel, Communications
Officer, Oberthur Gaming Technologies, (+1-514) 254-3600, ext. 101.
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