Casino Enterprise Management

Britain-based Heber Ltd. began 25 years ago after two electronics engineers, Tony Reynolds and Bob Powell, had a chance conversation on a train. During that conversation, the two decided to establish a firm that would design and manufacture affordable, real-time electronic control systems and technology for the gaming industry.

The gaming trade show season is notorious for its new products, new deals and new technologies, each poised to flip casino conventions upside-down, deliver a massive ROI and transform the way we all do business. Of course, many of these products never actually make it to market or fail to find a relevant application on the casino floor. A rare few, however, deliver the promises and meet casino operators’ real demand. The Epic Ten80® is among those few.

When Professor Johann F. Graf founded Novomatic in Austria almost 30 years ago, he could not have known that his business would one day grow to become one of the world’s largest integrated gaming groups, operating in excess of 105,000 gaming machines globally.

When City of Dreams was seeking a software solution that would tie in every form of entertainment on offer, many in the industry that said it couldn’t be done. Technical solutions and infrastructure provider Gaming Support disagreed—and was quick to offer up its JackpotJunction XL digital signage technology for the flagship development.

Think hotdogs, beer and baseball on a Saturday afternoon. Iron, carbon and zinc forged into corrosion-resistant steel. Larry, Moe and Curly. Neapolitan ice cream. The Three Musketeers. If the whole is greater than the sum of its parts and all good things come in threes, so they say, then the GTECH/SPIELO/ATRONIC merger is nothing short of a trifecta/hat trick/triple threat in the global gaming marketplace.

Gaming Partners International (GPI) literally makes “the money the world plays with,” and it’s a motto the company takes very seriously. As the world’s top casino currency manufacturer and the casino industry leader in RFID technology, GPI is dedicated to quality, security, safety and customer service—and all at a competitive price.

TCSJOHNHUXLEY has its origins in Technical Casino Services (TCS), a U.K. firm established three decades ago this month to provide service and support for the Chipper Champ roulette chip-sorting machine. In 1994, current Chairman Bertil Knutsson acquired TCS and helped the firm diversify by introducing additional products, such as shuffling machines, electronic roulette terminals, slot machines and casino systems.

At any given time, somewhere in the world a Gaming Laboratories International employee is at work testing or certifying a new technology, responding to a regulator or supplier’s question, or sending out an urgent letter. This July marks GLI’s 20th anniversary, and the independent gaming-equipment test lab has come a long way—along with the rest of the industry—in the past two decades.

It functions on any gaming machine in any location around the globe. It can be programmed to accept any type of currency in the world. It has four-way barcode recognition and acceptance that can read a ticket no matter how it is placed in the validator. Its less than three-second transaction cycle is the fastest in the gaming industry. It is one validator for one world. Its name? No, it’s not Super-Validator. It’s the CashCode one™. 

In 1996, Gary Platt Manufacturing opened with six employees in a 25,000-square-foot building in Reno. The three founding partners, which included company namesake Gary Platt, combined 50 years of experience in hospitality seating to create a new organization. Thirteen years later, the company has become a top provider of the finest casino seating products throughout the country.