Wednesday, May 30, 2012

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TCSJOHNHUXLEY DELIVERS SIC BO INTEGRATION TO GAMING FLOOR LIVE

Posted: 29 May 2012 10:43 AM PDT

 

TCSJOHNHUXLEY will deliver significant updates to its award winning Gaming Floor Live system at G2E Asia with the integration of Sic Bo to the platform.

Gaming Floor Live is a real-time game optimisation system designed to maximise key performance areas and profitability. Unlike any other product on the market, the system automatically captures live table game data, which in turn provides vital information to maximise turnover, maintain house advantage, reduce operating costs and understand opportunity costs.

The system can benchmark optimum results and compare real-time performance against the selected benchmarks, providing live feedback to Dealers, floor and casino management.  With the power to monitor pits remotely with local area network or wide area network connectivity, casino management can now measure key performance areas across their live tables.

Gaming Floor Live uses industry standard software and database architecture allowing it to easily operate within existing IT infrastructure. All data is encrypted and the system has comprehensive user and management control functions.  Data, reports and real time alerts are available via a dashboard application giving casino staff a snapshot of their operations as well as the ability to drill down to detailed analysis. An easy to use desktop application and SMS alerts notify gaming staff of any exceptional game activity.

The latest Sic Bo developments include games per hour visible on the system dashboard and alarms generated for bad shake and game Aborted (when the shaker cover is lifted). Alerts can also be generated on a configurable number of consecutive results, number of big or small results, triples, and identical results.  As with all Gaming Floor Live alerts these can be sent out via an SMS gateway.

Using the TCSJOHNHUXLEY Elite Sic Bo display offers seamless connectivity with Gaming Floor Live.  Functions include open/close table and change table min and max directly from the system.

Simon Witty, Group Product Development Director comments: "Our core strategy is to use technology and innovation in the Live Gaming arena to enhance game appeal and reduce operational costs.   Gaming Floor Live originally developed for Roulette games now provides security and performance data for Baccarat games and now with the latest addition also integrates with TCS John Huxley Sic Bo tables. With its easy to use dash board approach, risk can be managed and performance analysed in real time."

 

LAUNCH SUCCESS SEES CITIBET EXPAND PRINT RUN TO 100,000 COPIES FOR EURO 2012 WITH INCREASED REGIONAL PUSH

Posted: 29 May 2012 08:40 AM PDT

Tuesday, May 29, 2012 (London, UK) Following a successful launch in April 2012, Citibet, the free football betting magazine, has increased its distribution by a third to 100,000 issues for a Euro 2012 special on Thursday, 31 May, 2012.

In addition to its regular London operation, a significant number of copies will be distributed regionally, with Citibet teams present in Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham. Fans travelling to England's friendly with Belgium at Wembley Stadium on Saturday, June 2, will also be targeted.

Previewing the upcoming tournament in Poland and Ukraine, Citibet's Euro 2012 edition will feature the views of Gabriele Marcotti, with the Wall Street Journal and Times journalist and ESPN pundit signed as a columnist.

Marcotti will also appear on the panel at the inaugural Citibet Live event alongside Daily Star sports editor Howard Wheatcroft, Nigel Seeley from Bet Butler, the betting concierge service, and industry expert Matthew Glazier. The 2012 European Championships preview night will be held at Amber Bar in the City of London on Thursday, 31 May, 2012.

"The reaction to Citibet has been very encouraging from both readers and advertisers," says Jim Sinstadt, Citibet PR and marketing manager. "Thanks to demand we've substantially increased the print run, to 100,000 copies, for this Euro 2012 issue and we will continue at that level when the new season starts in August."

www.citibet.co.uk

Citibet is funded, published and distributed by Citipost, the UK's leading privately owned fulfillment and delivery organisation. It is available via hand-to-hand merchandisers at key London Underground stations and mainline terminals, as well as within magazine display units at corporate offices of financial, legal and marketing companies, pub and bar chains, news retailers and airports. Citibet is produced by Grand Parade and targets ABC1 professionals, who are typically male and working in the City and Docklands areas of London.

 

 

 

TCSJOHNHUXLEY Asia planning for strategic growth

Posted: 29 May 2012 08:36 AM PDT

 

Following her recent promotion to General Manager Asia, Rebecca Kingswell now heads up TCSJOHNHUXLEY Asia operations. In her previous role as Executive Director of Operations, Rebecca has been instrumental in the success of the company in the region. She has worked extensively in Asia over the last 17 years gaining immeasurable experience and local knowledge. Rebecca has spearheaded the company's success across the region, penetrating markets in Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos.

Cath Burns, TCSJOHNHUXLEY CEO comments, "Asia is an extremely important market to us and Rebecca's knowledge and experience is critical to our growth plans for the region. We are delighted to have such an experienced leader head up our Asia operations."

In response to the extraordinary growth of casino gaming in Macau and the Asia region, TCSJOHNHUXLEY are continuing strategic developments including strengthening the team and expanding and improving operational efficiencies across the region.  The first of these appointments include a new Sales Director for Asia, Andrew Hanley who joins the team in early June. With 18 years gaming industry experience, Hanley has worked extensively in the Asia Pacific region and has been based in Macau for the past 5 years. As VP – International Sales at Transact Technologies and more recently Sales Manager Asia Pacific for Bally Technologies, he has extensive Sales, Marketing, Operations and Customer service experience as well as considerable local market knowledge, which will be invaluable as the company develops its sales strategy in new and emerging markets as well as continuing to support established customers.

Sales Executive, Max Ieong joined the company at the beginning of May and comes to TCSJOHNHUXLEY with a strong sales and marketing background having lived and worked in the US for 15 years, relocating to Macau in 2006. For the last 5 years he was Director of Sales for a large Fortune 200 restaurant and event management company where he increased sales by 50% in 6 months. His knowledge and strong customer focused experience will provide an added advantage to grow sales in the region. He will be attending G2E Asia.

Operational efficiencies are being implemented to maximise growth potential and streamline services in the region. These include expanding warehouse facilities to provide better consolidation of orders and the ability to hold more stock enabling quicker turnaround of orders. Technical Service and Support is being restructured and we will continue to recruit best technical candidates available that will allow greater customer coverage of Asia and a growing Macau base.

Rebecca Kingswell comments, "Our focus is on developing plans that will allow us to deliver the best products, service and support in the region. The importance of building a strong focused team and maximizing operational efficiencies in this rapidly expanding market is critical to our success."

 

FREMANTLEMEDIA ENTERPRISES ENTERS INTO ALLIANCE WITH HASBRO

Posted: 29 May 2012 12:35 AM PDT

London, 29 May 2012: FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME) today announced its agreement with leading global branded play company, Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAS) to develop Trivial Pursuit and Connect 4 branded slots and instant win games for the online and mobile channels.

Trivial Pursuit and Connect 4 are highly successful, well-known and iconic global brands. FME plan to develop and translate themes from each brand for online and mobile gambling. Both titles will be available to UK and European players via the OpenBet and GTS platforms.

Simon Murphy, Head of Gambling for FME, EMEA, commented, "We are hugely excited to be working with Hasbro to develop Connect 4 and Trivial Pursuit premium branded gambling content. The new addition of the gaming brands to our portfolio further strengthens our position as one of the leading developers and distributors of branded gaming content."

FME's Gambling division has previously licensed, developed and distributed branded games for online, mobile and land based slots across a number of brands including The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent, The Price Is Right, Family Fortunes and SPACE INVADERS. The deal with Hasbro further establishes FME's growing slate of non-TV intellectual property.

FremantleMedia is one of the leading creators and producers of entertainment brands in the world. FremantleMedia is part of the RTL Group, Europe’s largest television and radio broadcast company, which is in turn 90 percent owned by Bertelsmann AG, one of the world’s major media and entertainment companies. FremantleMedia's worldwide production arm is responsible for many of the world's highest rated prime time entertainment, drama, serial drama and factual entertainment programmes. FremantleMedia Enterprises is the brand extension arm of FremantleMedia, offering a one-stop-shop for all Licensing, Distribution and Home Entertainment around the world. The FremantleMedia Group (which includes FremantleMedia North America, UFA, FremantleMedia UK, FremantleMedia Australia and Original Productions amongst others) has operations in 22 countries, one of the most comprehensive global networks, creating nearly 10,000 hours of programming a year, rolling out more than 60 formats and managing over 300 individual titles. FremantleMedia has some of the world's most sought after and long running formats in its catalogue, and globally, produces such programmes as: Idols (co-produced with 19 Productions in the US), Hole In The Wall, Got Talent (co-produced with Syco in the UK and the US), The X Factor (co-produced with Syco in the UK), Take Me Out, Family Feud, The Price is Right, Farmer Wants A Wife, Gute Zeiten Schlechte Zeiten, and Neighbours.

CONNECT4 and TRIVIAL PURSUIT are trademarks of Hasbro and are used with permission. Ó2012 Hasbro.  All rights reserved.