Casino Vendor News

With casinos converting to cashless slot machines and gaming proliferating nationwide, Reno-based International Game Technology continued its record-breaking growth rates in the quarter and year ended Sept. 30.

International Game Technology reports Q4 net income totaled $108.3 million or $0.31 per diluted share versus $62.8 million or $0.18 per diluted share in Q4 2002.

A former partner and head of Deloitte & Touche's gaming auditing business in Las Vegas has joined a new competing office in Las Vegas for Ernst & Young.

IGT's Chairman of the Board of Directors Charles N. Mathewson has resigned as a director and become Chairman Emeritus; G. Thomas Baker, Chief Executive Officer and President, has been elected the new Chairman of the Board of Directors.

Station Casinos, Inc. has signed an agreement with International Game Technology to define an accelerated schedule to purchase and take delivery of 5,000 new EZ Play gaming machines to complete their transition to 100% ticket-in ticket-out machines at all Station Casino locations within two years.

International Game Technology and Acres Gaming jointly announced today the filing of Articles of Merger with the Nevada Secretary of State to consummate the previously announced planned merger.

Harrah's Entertainment Chairman Phil Satre called on the rest of the casino industry to follow his company's lead as he formally presented the company's extensive corporate archive to the Gaming Studies Research Center at UNLV.

News Brief: Slot machine maker International Game Technology's $143 million acquisition of gambling systems tech company Acres Gaming Inc. won final state approval Thursday from the Nevada Gaming Commission.

News Brief: Except for a few donations from Indian lawyer Tom Tureen, the Las Vegas firm of Marnell Corrao is single-handedly paying for the Maine pro-casino campaign.

William "Si" Redd, who founded slot giant IGT and helped popularize video poker and Megabucks progressive jackpots, died Tuesday at his beach home in Solana Beach, Calif., after an extended illness. He was 91.

John G. Brokopp: "The evolution of slot machines from mechanical reels with pictures of bells, cherries, and oranges to computer driven video marvels of modern technology isn’t over."

Foxwoods Resort Casino and 14 other properties recently signed contracts to use the innovative products and services of Global Cash Access, the leading supplier of cash access and customer relationship marketing technologies to the gaming industry.

John Grochowski checks out new slots at the Global Gaming Expo.

John Grochowski checks out new slots at the Global Gaming Expo.

John Grochowski checks out new slots at the Global Gaming Expo.