Our industry has responded quickly to the market needs presented by CSR and the efforts of WLA, EL, and NASPL to address this topic will continue.  For its part, GTECH will remain committed to supporting these industry initiatives and will continue to actively identify and share best practices and solutions in support of addressing CSR.

We are now allocating considerable resources to focus groups and quantitative game studies, as well as to pilot projects to improve sales performance for all our customers in a socially responsible way. Eight of the 15 new products being tested in research focus groups throughout this past July include product ideas that solve social responsibility program issues (e.g., enhanced ticket checker where a consumer could check either online or instant tickets to determine whether it is a “winner” as well as “amount won,” biometrics, player card, and combined play slip/ticket).

We’ve taken a number of steps that give us a leadership position in CSR.  One of the most important was the appointment of Bob Vincent, Vice President of Corporate Communications, as the new point of contact for all CSR issues at GTECH.  In addition, we are working to raise the level of awareness internally at GTECH. We will shortly begin CSR and Responsible Gaming training and certification for all of our employees as is the practice of many of our lottery partners.  GTECH is currently participating in the creation of a major sustainability report to be published by our parent company, Lottomatica, as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility effort.