Company Fact Sheet

GTECH is a leading gaming technology and services company, providing innovative technology, creative content, and superior service delivery. Lottomatica Group is one of the world's largest commercial lottery operators and a market leader in the Italian gaming industry. GTECH and Lottomatica together create a fully integrated lottery operator and gaming technology solutions provider – a combined company with worldwide scale, considerable financial strength, and industry-leading customer solutions. Lottomatica Group is publicly traded on the Italian Stock Exchange, has approximately €2.2 billion in revenue, and 7,500 employees in more than 50 countries when combined with GTECH. Lottomatica Group is majority owned by De Agostini, which belongs to a century-old publishing, media, and financial services group.

GTECH maintains its brand identity and operates as GTECH in all jurisdictions where it conducts business, or plans to conduct business in the future, with the exception of Italy, where Lottomatica remains the operator of the Italian national lottery.

Offices:

Headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island (USA), GTECH maintains Technology Centers in Chennai, India; Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada; Austin, Texas; West Greenwich, Rhode Island; and Warsaw, Poland. Lottomatica is headquartered in Rome, Italy.

Revenue/Stock:

Stock is traded on the Milan Stock Exchange; symbol LTO. ADRs on U.S. OTC Pink Sheet market; symbol LTTOY.

Website:

www.gtech.com and www.gruppolottomatica.it/eng/index.htm

Business Overview:

GTECH Overview:

As a global leader in the world's online lottery business, the name GTECH is synonymous with the industry it pioneered and helped to build. GTECH is a full service technology partner catering to all of the systems and support needs of online lottery operators worldwide. This comes from GTECH's ability to analyze the specific needs of each customer and to design solutions that meet the widest array of operating requirements. Excellence in software design, point-of-sale, instant ticket vending machine and video lottery terminal manufacturing, instant ticket printing and design services, local area network/wide area network communications, sports betting/new media expertise, and central system installations on six continents are the hallmarks of GTECH's technical and customer service competencies.

Lottomatica Overview:

Lottomatica is one of the largest lottery operators in the world based on total wagers and is a leader in the Italian gaming industry. Lottomatica has built an extensive real-time, online distribution network, with approximately 190,000 terminals in 90,000 points-of-sale throughout Italy (including approximately 17,000 points-of-sale where Lottomatica provides only Processing Services for third parties), comprised of tobacconists, bars, petrol stations, newspaper stands, and motorway restaurants.

Since 1993, Lottomatica has been the sole concessionaire for the Italian Lotto game, which is the largest online lottery in the world in terms of wagers.

Lottomatica has commenced operations of fixed odds sports betting through a retail network of 1,145 points of sale, including the right to operate over the internet.

Lottomatica also operates the gaming machines market of approximately 51,000 Amusement With Prizes (AWP) machines, and performs high volume transaction processing of non-lottery commercial transactions such as retail debit, bill payments, electronic tax payments, utility payments, prepaid cellular telephone recharges, and retail-based programs.

GTECH Gaming Solutions:

GTECH provides complete gaming systems technology to Government sponsored machine gaming programs as well as commercial and Native American gaming venues. GTECH is a single source of accountability for online central systems, system design, game development, marketing services, and ongoing support operations worldwide.

The combined strengths and experience of GTECH and its subsidiaries ATRONIC and SPIELO, leading providers of gaming machines and related services, make a powerful partnership in the supply of technology and support services to the worldwide gaming market.

New Media and Sports Betting:

GTECH’s New Media & Sports Betting division, GTECH G2, is comprised of four subsidiaries – Boss Media, St Minver, Finsoft, and Dynamite Idea – focused on providing software and services in the Internet and sports betting market. The goal of this division is to become the leading provider of best-in-class sports betting and interactive white label solutions and services to the regulated commercial and government-sponsored gaming industry.

The new company has more than 500 employees in Europe and Asia and provides solutions and services to the Internet and sports betting market and focuses on:

  • Sports Betting, including risk management and other services;
  • Poker, including the provision of fully-managed services through the International Poker Network (IPN);
  • Casino, both flash and downloadable best-of-class games; and
  • Bingo, fully-managed service in the largest bingo network in Europe.

 

Business Highlights:

 

In recent years, GTECH successfully competed for a number of contracts across the globe.


Lottery/Video Lottery:

Domestically, GTECH was awarded new contracts to provide online or instant ticket printing, services, and systems for lotteries in New York, South Dakota, Michigan, West Virginia, Kansas, Virginia, Missouri, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, while customers in California, Illinois, and Wisconsin extended their agreements with GTECH.

Internationally, GTECH, or consortia in which GTECH is a partner, received contracts and/or won procurements in Chile, the Dominican Republic, Belarus, the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, China, Western Canada, and Belgium. The Company also received extensions from lottery customers in Morocco and Finland. Moreover, GTECH was chosen to provide services and solutions for the first legalized sports lottery in Taiwan and a sports-betting system in Ghana.

GTECH also received contracts and/or extensions to provide video lottery (or gaming) central systems, products, and/or services to customers in Sweden, Canada (Atlantic Lottery and Manitoba), Iceland, Oregon, and Pennsylvania.

In addition, GTECH won procurements in Maryland, Missouri, Massachusetts, Virginia, Illinois, France, and Luxembourg to provide Instant Ticket Vending Machines (ITVMs).

Commercial/Financial Services:

GTECH also provides network capabilities for commercial and/or financial transactions in Colombia, Chile, Jamaica, Poland, Barbados, Lithuania, Trinidad & Tobago, the CZECH Republic, and Slovak Republic. These services are offered over the Company's dedicated network infrastructure, which includes bill and tax payments, prepaid cellular applications, social security contributions and payments, credit card transactions, IRS transactions, and prepaid cards.

In addition, GTECH provides call center services for select automated government benefits programs in Illinois, Texas, and Sacramento, California, and Maine.

 

Business Subsidiaries & Brands

IGI/Europrint:

IGI Europrint offers media companies another set of sophisticated solutions to attract new players, expand distribution channels, and integrate offline and online applications.

GTECH Printing Corporation:

GTECH Printing Corp., a full-service instant ticket provider, offers printing, warehousing/distribution, to telemarketing, optimization, and self service products to government-sponsored lotteries. GTECH's Printed Products and Licensed Content provide a broad range of engaging products and services across multiple distribution channels.

SPIELO:

SPIELO is a leading manufacturer of video lottery terminals (VLTs) and a developer of game content and software.

Leeward Islands Lottery Holding Company(LILHCo):

Leeward Islands Lottery Holding Company (LILHCo) is a lottery operating company, headquartered on the Caribbean islands of Antigua and St. Croix. LILHCo holds long-term licenses to operate lotteries in Antigua/Barbuda, Anguilla, St. Kitts/Nevis, St. Maarten/Saba/St. Eustatius, and Turks & Caicos, and is the operator for lotteries in Barbados, Bermuda, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

ATRONIC:

ATRONIC is one of the five largest slot makers globally – a market leader in Europe, Russia, and Latin America with a solid presence in the USA, and growing foot-prints in Africa and Asia. The company is dedicated to producing high quality, entertaining games and products, as well as dynamic system solutions.

BillBird:

BillBird is the leading provider of electronic bill payment services in Poland.

Finsoft Ltd.

Finsoft Ltd. is a leading provider of real-time transaction and information management systems for the commercial sports-betting market.

Boss Media

Boss Media is a leading developer of innovative software and systems for digitally-distributed gaming entertainment. They have built a solid reputation in the interactive gaming industry for their reliable high-quality products, services, and proficient personnel.

St Minver

St Minver offers fully managed gaming services for blue-chip media brands and integrated gaming solutions for European sports books.

Dynamite Idea

Dynamite Idea is a developer of unique, innovative digital instant and side games.

 






 

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