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Camelot
Donates Christmas Party Fee to Farepak Appeal
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LONDON, United Kingdom (November 30, 2006)Lottery
operator pledges £30k from its cancelled Christmas party National Lottery
operator Camelot, today pledged to make a £30,000 donation to the Farepak
appeal, after cancelling its Christmas celebrations.
The Christmas party for Camelot's 900 staff was due to
take place in central London in December, but the lottery firm put a halt to it
because of the unusual demands placed on the business as it prepares the final
stages of its bid for the third lottery licence. Camelot Chief Executive,
Dianne Thompson, has instead pledged £30,000 that would have been spent
on the party to help those affected by the collapse last month of savings and
hamper company Farepak.
Dianne said: "I am really pleased to be able to make
this donation to help those who have been devastated by the demise of Farepak."
Camelot was considering how it could best help those who had lost savings
through Farepak with its Christmas party donation, when it heard about the
appeal.
SOURCE Camelot
INTRALOT Supports and Participates in the World Economic
Forum
ATHENS, Greece (November 27, 2006)
-- On November 23rd and 24th, INTRALOT,
as an active member of the worldwide business and social community,
participated in the regional World Economic Forum (WEF) in Istanbul, Turkey.
More than 400 leaders from all over the world attended the forum, entitled
“Connecting regions – Creating New Opportunities.”
INTRALOT was one of the Forum’s
sponsors as part of its strategy to support conferences and international
forums in order to foster the exchange of views and ideas on international
relations.
The World Economic Forum is an
independent international organization committed to improving the state of the
world by engaging leaders in partnerships to shape global, regional and
industry agendas.
The various World Economic Forum
meetings and venues provide the opportunity for leaders from diverse areas of
the world to address specific concerns and contribute to their solutions.
INTRALOT’s participation in the
WEF congress was particularly productive as its delegates had the opportunity
to meet important leaders of the Turkish economy and discuss topics related to
INTRALOT’s activities in the country as well as the forthcoming national
privatizations. Moreover, such meetings with leaders of other major neighboring
countries took place in order to identify common business opportunities in
their respective markets.
During his participation in the WEF,
Mr. Constantinos Antonopoulos, INTRALOT CEO, stated: “With our sponsorship
and participation in the regional World Economic Forum, we not only support the
singular institution but also the host country in which INTRALOT is the largest
Greek investor outside of the banking sector. Our objective is to capitalize on
the new experiences we achieved for the future growth of INTRALOT and the broad
Greek business community”.
About INTRALOT (www.intralot.com)
INTRALOT, a public company listed on
the ASE, is a leading supplier of integrated gaming and transaction processing
systems, innovative game content and value added services to state-licensed
gaming organizations worldwide. Its broad portfolio of products & services,
its know-how of Lottery, Betting & Video Lottery operations, its experience
in sports games and its leading-edge technology give INTRALOT a competitive
advantage which contributes directly to customers’ efficiency,
profitability and growth. INTRALOT’s footprint straddles five continents
with 37 subsidiaries, 8 business offices, over 3,600 people and revenues of
€ 523 million for 2005 and €700(Ε) for 2006.
SOURCE: INTRALOT.
For more
information please CONTACT: Ms Evi Ioannidou, Communications Director, Phone:
+30-210-6156000 – Fax: +30-210 6106800, email:
ioannidou@intralot.com.
Scientific Games - Proposed Games Media
Acquisition
NEW YORK, USA (November 27, 2007) --
Scientific Games (Nasdaq: SGMS) announced
today that it has signed a letter of intent to purchase Games Media Ltd. and
related companies.
Games Media is a UK based company
developing, publishing and selling "Amusement With Prizes" (AWP)
machines, "Skill With Prizes" (SWP) machines and related content
principally to operators who lease them to the UK public house market. The
acquisition is expected to close prior to the end of 2006.
The UK public house market comprises
approximately 60,000 pubs which have an estimated total of 120,000 AWPs and
30,000 SWPs.
Games Media is the third largest
supplier of analogue AWPs in the UK and has developed a new multi-game digital
terminal ("Juice" ™) which has been undergoing trials with all the
major UK pub groups including Enterprise Inns, Punch Taverns, Mitchells and
Butler and Union Pub Company. Scientific Games' intention is to offer an
integrated digital AWP and SWP solution including content, systems,
communication and service. Scientific Games' Global Draw business facility will
provide it's existing systems and national Global Draw service infrastructure
that maintains 9,000 networked digital fixed odds betting terminals to UK
licensed betting offices.
Andrew Ludlow, Managing Director of
Games Media said "We are delighted to have Scientific Games and Global Draw
as our partners to take forward our plans for the expansion of our digital
products. They have the logistical, service and network infrastructures that we
lack to take forward our digital proposition as an integrated solutions
provider and the financial resources to allow us to actively pursue these
ambitions."
Steve Frater, Managing Director of
The Global Draw, said "Following on from our success in introducing digital
gaming products to the Licensed Betting Office sector we have been eyeing a
move into the UK AWP market for some time. This will enable us to get better
use of our UK wide service infrastructure and experience of precipitating
change in this market to networked digital platforms similar to what we offer.
Games Media are the perfect partner for us as they have significant experience
of and strong relationships within the pub retail sector."
Lorne Weil, Chairman and CEO of
Scientific Games, said: "The addition of the Games Media business to our
Global Draw operations perfectly positions us to be the catalyst for change in
the UK AWP market as it switches over to a networked digital model. The
acquisition broadens both our access to content and expertise in incorporating
content from third parties onto other platforms. The access to the pub leisure
market in the UK also opens up a number of other opportunities for Scientific
Games including social lotteries and monitor based events."
About Scientific
Games
Scientific Games Corporation is the
leading integrated supplier of instant tickets, systems and services to
lotteries, a leading supplier of fixed odds betting terminals and systems,
interactive sports betting terminals and systems, and wagering systems and
services to pari-mutuel operators. It is also a licensed pari-mutuel gaming
operator in Connecticut, Maine and the Netherlands and is a leading supplier of
prepaid phone cards to telephone companies. Scientific Games' customers are in
the United States and more than 60 other countries. For more information about
Scientific Games, please visit our web site at
http://www.scientificgames.com.
Company Contact: Investor Relations,
Scientific Games Corporation, 212-754-2233.
SOURCE: Scientific Games.
How Much Do People Need To Feel Rich? In The UK, It’s Over
£25 Million
LONDON, United Kingdom (November 3,
2006) -- The National Lottery reveals
European attitudes to wealth and status symbols Almost a quarter of people in
the UK (24%) claim they would need £25 million or more to feel
exceptionally wealthy, according to a brand new pan-European study undertaken
among over 4,500 people from eight countries to find out about current
attitudes towards wealth in Europe.
Portugal came top of the rich
rankings in this league of nations, with 70% of the population needing over
£25 million – the UK came sixth overall. Amazingly and higher still,
over half of the Portuguese (56%) say it would take £100m to make them
feel very rich. With an estimated £88 million jackpot available to win in
Friday’s EuroMillions draw (3 November), The National Lottery®
conducted the study among each of the countries participating in the game*,
revealing the wide-ranging European attitudes to wealth and the status symbols
that go with it.
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Across Europe, everyone does agree
on one thing: the ultimate, number one status symbol is a private jet. However,
while people in the UK rate first class travel and a private pool among their
top five indicators of wealth, they do not feature in the lists for residents
of France, Spain, Austria and Portugal. Instead, these countries rate personal
shoppers and ownership of expensive jewellery much higher.
The
EuroMillions study shows surprising
expectations about the amount of money needed for people to feel rich.
Twenty-four per cent of the UK population would need over £25 million to
feel rich – with 17% wanting £100 million or more. Expectations in
this country are high, but not as high as in Switzerland, where 25% of people
would want £100 million or more; Spain, at 29%; or Portugal, where the
figure is a whopping 56%.
The Feeling Rich
Rankings:
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Needing
over £25 million: |
Needing
£100m or more: |
| 1.
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Portugal (70%)
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1. |
Portugal (56%)
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| 2.
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Spain (45%) |
2. |
Spain (29%) |
| 3.
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Switzerland (35%)
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3. |
Switzerland (25%)
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| 4.
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Austria (37%) |
4. |
Austria (22%) |
| 5.
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Ireland (26%) |
5. |
UK (17%) |
| 6.
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UK (24%) |
6. |
Ireland (17%) |
| 7.
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Belgium (22%) |
7. |
Belgium (14%) |
| 8.
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France (21%) |
8. |
France (14%) |
Displays of Wealth:
In the UK, two thirds of the
population think owning a holiday home doesn’t display wealth; 70% think
an Armani suit is definitely not a symbol of wealth; four out of five
people do not automatically think that homeowners without a mortgage are rich;
and only 9% now believe you need to be loaded to drink champagne.
Attitudes across Europe differ: the
French prove their love of fashion, with 58% stating that couture clothing is a
symbol of wealth; in Switzerland, 53% rate ‘no mortgage’ as one of
the greatest signs of affluence; in Spain, 60% of people claim having staff is
a clear statement of wealth – while 70% of Austrians think owning a big
house shows you are very rich.
Along with the UK and Austria, only 13% of the
Irish believe that expensive handbags show off real money, compared to 25% of
Belgians. Meanwhile, in the country that tops the rich rankings, 40% of the
Portuguese believe an Armani suit highlights your material assets.
Commenting on the research findings,
a National Lottery spokesperson said: “The National Lottery has created
more than 1,900 millionaires in the UK and our biggest winner has pocketed over
£20 million. This week there is a chance to win a whopping £88
million on EuroMillions, which would make just about anyone feel very, very
rich! We’ve got our fingers crossed that Friday proves lucky for UK
players.”
For your chance to join the jet set,
buy a ticket for this Friday’s enormous £88 million estimated
EuroMillions Rollover jackpot. With nine countries now playing – the UK,
France, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal and Switzerland
– EuroMillions is the world’s biggest multi-national lottery game by
total population eligible to play. To win the EuroMillions jackpot, players
need to match five main numbers from one to 50 – and two Lucky Star
numbers from one to nine.
EuroMillions offers a greater range
of prizes than any other National Lottery draw-based game – in addition to
the jackpot, there are 11 other prize levels available to win, ranging from a
few pounds to hundreds of thousands of pounds. EuroMillions costs £1.50
to play and the draw is shown every Friday on Challenge TV at 9.55pm.
All players should check their tickets and call
the National Lottery Hotline on 0845 910 0000 if they think they have become an
overnight EuroMillionaire.
For further information, please contact Camelot
Press Office: 020 7632 5711
SOURCE: Camelot media
release.
Market Leadership Increases Even More, Hamburg Lottery Company Orders
Terminal Solution From Wincor Nixdorf
PADERBORN, Germany (November 24,
2006) -- LOTTO Hamburg will be equipping its outlets with a terminal solution
from Wincor Nixdorf. That makes
Hamburg’s lottery company the ninth Germany lottery business (of a total
of sixteen) to choose Xion /Mtop terminals for its outlets.
Wincor Nixdorf will also take over
spare parts logistics for the 540 Xion /Mtop terminals, which are scheduled to
be installed in March and April 2007. The logistics contract will run for five
years and includes the provision of basic software.
The Linux-based terminal software is
being developed by Intralot, a Greek lottery solutions specialist. It will be
made available to LOTTO Hamburg as part of a pilot project. The software is a
further development of basic software from Wincor Nixdorf that enables easy
access to Xion /Mtop hardware.
The new terminals feature
touchscreen technology that makes them much more user-friendly for lottery
outlet personnel compared with the outlets’ old terminals, which were
controlled via keyboard. Additionally, faster customer service and improved
print graphics will
be ensured through thermal printers
from Wincor Nixdorf. By winning this tender, Wincor Nixdorf expands its market
leadership in terminal solutions for German lottery businesses even more: when
this installation is concluded, the company will have, by its own estimate, a
market share of 60 percent calculated on the basis of the installed base!
SOURCE: Wincor Nixdorf.
CONTACT:
Ulrich Nolte, Tel. +49-5251-693-5211, Email:
ulrich.nolte@wincor-nixdorf.com
Lottery Corporation Wants to Know: Is there a Homegrown Hero in Your
Town?
RICHMOND, British Columbia, Canada
(November 28, 2006) - British Columbia Lottery
Corporation (BCLC) is looking for photos of B.C. amateur athletes in action
for the Homegrown Heroes Photo Contest. The winners of the contest will receive
$500 and the winning photos will be featured on an upcoming SportsFunder
Instant Win ticket.
- Enter your action photo at
sportsfunder.com
- Submit your photo before December
15, 2006
- Entries will be judged by a panel
of BCLC representatives
- Only photos of athletes over 19
years of age will be considered for this competition
The five winning photos from last
summer's Homegrown Heroes Photo Contest are featured on the current $2
SportsFunder Instant Win tickets available at lottery retailers throughout the
province. The winners were: Alex Greenlay, a hockey player from Golden; Richard
Peter, a wheelchair basketball player from Duncan; Audrey Erlandson, a
triathlete from Comox; Becky Hartley, a softball player from Burnaby and
Jonathan Redman, a snowboarder from Whistler.
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SportsFunder was developed in
celebration of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Proceeds from
SportsFunder lottery games will be distributed by the provincial government to
directly support: Sport BC's KidSportTM program providing sport registration
grants to financially disadvantaged children; Team BC, providing support for
high-performance B.C. athletes; Coach and Leadership Development to provide
educational and certification opportunities for coaches; and Youth Travel
Assistance for B.C. athletes to access training facilities and sporting
competitions.
Visit
www.sportsfunder.com for more
information and to check out the great photos of B.C. amateur athletes featured
on the current SportsFunder Homegrown Heroes ticket.
BCLC is a provincial Crown
Corporation reporting to the Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General
through a Board of Directors. Its mission is to offer responsible gaming
entertainment, generating income for the public good.
SOURCE: British Columbia Lottery
Corporation.
CONTACT: Owen Gormley, Marketing Communications, (604) 247-3013
or Cell: (604) 220-2915.
'Deal or No Deal' Reveals Prizes, Trip to Taping
JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri, USA
(November 29, 2006) -- Now you can "open" your favorite briefcase and
win a chance to go to Hollywood with the Missouri Lottery’s new "Deal
or No Deal" Scratchers game, which officially starts Dec. 6.
The game, based on the television
game show by the same name, offers a new elimination-style play action, a
chance to win up to $25,000 cash and a chance to win a trip to see the taping
of the show in California.
"This is the second year for the
popular game show, which is watched by millions," said Bill Burton, instant
game product manager for the Missouri Lottery. "We thought it would be fun
for players to play an instant version of the game and get a chance to win a
trip to see the show live."
Players can send in one non-winning
"Deal or No Deal" Scratchers ticket as an entry into the promotion. One
lucky player will be drawn to win a trip for two to see the taping of "Deal
or No Deal" or he or she can receive the cash value of the prize, which is
$5,000. The trip includes four-day, three-night hotel accommodations in
Hollywood, tickets to attend the taping of the show, round-trip airfare, ground
transportation and $1,000 cash. The drawing date will be announced at a later
date via news release and at molottery.com.
In addition to the grand-prize trip
winner, five other players will win $1,000 tax paid.
To play the new "Deal or No Deal" $2
Scratchers game, players will uncover each of the nine briefcases. Then they
will go to the prize board and uncover the corresponding symbol. If a prize
symbol remains unmatched, then the player wins that prize amount.
"This is the first time
we’ve had this play action on a game," Burton said. "We think
players will really like it, since it is similar to the way the game show is
played."
SOURCE: Missouri Lottery.
ACE Interactive Featured on the TV-channel BBC
World
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (November 29,
2006) -- During the period November 29-December 1, from 3 pm to 4.30 pm, ACE
Interactive will be featured on the international TV-channel BBC World. The two
minute section, which will be broadcast in 200 countries with a potential
audience of 270 million homes, will profile the company, its Interactive Video
Lottery solutions and its staff.
“ACE Interactive is a truly
international company and this is therefore a great opportunity for us to reach
out to potential new customers, regulators as well as future
colleagues.” stated ACE Interactive’s CEO, Michael Koch.
About ACE
Interactive
ACE Interactive, located in
Stockholm, Sweden, was founded in 2003 as a focused effort to develop and
market the next generation of systems for operations of interactive gaming
terminals. The IVT system is an online server-based gaming solution aimed at
operators with great demands regarding flexibility, content, security and
social responsibility. The ACE Interactive solution is based on three core
values. Flexibility to allow customers to continuously adapt to changing market
conditions; freedom of choice to allow customers to source games, hardware and
services, unbundled, from any third party provider, and an open platform using
industry de facto standards to permit easy integration with external systems,
products and games. ACE Interactive is a wholly owned subsidiary of
Australia-based Aristocrat Leisure Limited.
www.aceinteractive.se.
SOURCE: ACE Interactive.
CONTACT:
Claes Peyron, Head of Sales and Marketing, Phone: +46 705 19 36 46,
E-mail: claes.peyron@aceinteractive.se.
Governor Appoints Newspaper Publisher to Lottery
Commission
BOISE, Idaho, USA (November 30,
2006) -- Governor James E. Risch appointed David Keyes, publisher/editor of the
Bonner County Daily Bee, to fill a seat on the Idaho Lottery Commission. The appointment
became effective on November 27, 2006 and runs until January 1, 2011.
In addition to being the
publisher/editor of the Bonner County Daily Bee in Sandpoint, Keyes has served
on the Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce, the Sandpoint Rotary, Sandpoint Kiwanis,
the Panhandle Alliance for Education, and as Chairman of the Celebrate
Sandpoint Committee.
“I’m looking forward to
giving something back to the community,” said the 44-year-old veteran
newspaper man. “The Lottery has made a difference for so many schools
in Idaho. I’m excited to be a part of that now.”
Beginning with the Hagadone
Corporation owned Bonners Ferry Herald as a reporter in 1986, Keyes career has
spanned twenty years covering news in North Idaho. Today, he oversees the
publication of the Bonners Ferry Herald, the Priest River Times, and the Daily
Bee. He lives in Sandpoint with his wife Marlisa and their two children
Austin and Olivia.
Keyes fills an opening on the Idaho
Lottery Commission formerly held by Teresa Deshon of Sandpoint whose term
expired.
SOURCE: Idaho Lottery.
CONTACT:
David Workman (208) 334-2600.
Are You SCEL’s Future Millionaire? Four SC Education Lottery
Players Will Win $1 Million Each
COLUMBIA, South Carolina, USA
(November 28, 2006) --The South Carolina
Education Lottery (SCEL) wants you to be its next millionaire! SCEL will
award more than $5 million in prizes with the best-ever on-line game odds on
January 8, 2007 – the same day the Lottery will celebrate its 5th
Anniversary.
Only one million raffle tickets will
be sold. For $10, players have a 1 in 250,000 chance of winning a million
dollars. There is only one raffle number per ticket, and like a traditional
raffle game, players do not pick their numbers. Tickets are printed in
numerical order as they are sold throughout the state.
In addition to the four $1 million
prizes, the Carolina Millionaire Raffle will offer 762 additional cash prizes.
Two lucky Carolina Millionaire Raffle tickets will be worth $100,000. Sixty
SCEL raffle players will win $10,000 each and 700 raffle players will win
$1,000. A total of $5.5 million will be given away in the Carolina Millionaire
Raffle.
To win a prize, the raffle number
printed on the ticket must exactly match the raffle number randomly selected in
the drawing for a Carolina Millionaire Raffle prize. A complete list of winning
raffle numbers will be available at lottery retailers and on the website at
www.sceducationlottery.com on
January 8, 2007.
Odds of winning a $1 million top
prize and 1 in 250,000; odds of winning a $100,000 prize are 1 in 500,000; odds
winning a $10,000 prize are 1 in 16,666 and odds of winning a $1,000 prize are
1 in 1,428. Overall odds of winning a prize are 1 in 1,305.
SOURCE: South Carolina Education
Lottery (SCEL).
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