LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Two of the leading global gaming suppliers, Bally
Technologies (NYSE: BYI) and Shuffle
Master, Inc. (NASDAQ Global Select Market: SHFL), and one of the
leading poker platforms, Ongame
Networks Ltd., announced a strategic alliance aimed at expanding
their online gaming presence globally and increasing their online
business-to-business (B2B) product offerings.
This alliance will enable all three companies to take their combined
strengths and offer a unique poker and iGaming platform solution. The
ability to interface Ongame’s poker content through Bally’s iGaming
platform is intended to provide a best-in-class B2B offering and allow
operators to choose world-class technology, while maintaining control of
their operations through proven gaming suppliers.
“Bally is pleased to offer Ongame’s proven poker platform, which will
provide a unique offering through its integration on Bally’s iGaming
platform,” said John Connelly, Bally Technologies’ Vice President of
Business Development. “Bally Technologies and Aristocrat Technologies
have agreed to offer Ongame as one of their preferred poker solutions,
thus creating a combined liquidity pool for our customers.”
“Bally’s objective is to place the control in the hands of the
operator,” Connelly added. “We are providing the necessary tools to have
a single view of the player by incorporating existing and online gaming
systems, while allowing operators to have the ability to cross-promote
between traditional land-based and online consumers.”
Gavin Isaacs, Shuffle Master’s Chief Executive Officer, said, “We are
confident that this relationship between Shuffle Master, Ongame, and
Bally will create the opportunity for gaming operators to control their
data, establish liquidity, and ensure their suppliers are truly
committed to a B2B model. It is relationships such as this that made us
truly excited about bringing Ongame into the Shuffle Master family and
opportunities like this only build momentum before the pending closing
of our acquisition.”
About Bally Technologies, Inc.
With a history dating back to 1932, Las Vegas-based Bally Technologies
designs, manufactures, operates, and distributes advanced gaming
devices, systems and technology solutions worldwide. Bally’s product
line includes reel-spinning slot machines, video slots, wide-area
progressives, interactive and mobile applications, and Class II,
lottery, and central-determination games and platforms. Bally also
offers an array of casino management, slot accounting, bonusing,
cashless and table management solutions. For more information, please
contact Laura Olson-Reyes, Senior Director, Corporate Marketing &
Communications, at 702-584-7742, or visit http://www.ballytech.com.
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and LinkedIn.
About Shuffle Master, Inc.
Shuffle Master, Inc. is a leading global gaming supplier committed to
making gaming more fun for players and more profitable for operators
through product innovation, and superior quality and service. The
Company operates in legalized gaming markets across the globe and
provides state-of-the-art, value-add products in five distinct
categories: Utility products, which include automatic card shufflers and
roulette chip sorters; Proprietary Table Games, which includes live
games, side bets and progressives; Electronic Table Systems, which
include various e-Table game platforms; Electronic Gaming Machines,
which include video slot machines; and newly introduced iGaming, which
features online versions of Shuffle Master's table games, social gaming,
and mobile applications. The Company is included in the S&P Smallcap 600
Index. Information about the Company and its products can be found on
the Internet at http://www.shufflemaster.com,
or on Facebook,
Twitter
and YouTube.
About Ongame Network Ltd.
Ongame Network Ltd. is one of the world’s largest B2B poker providers.
The global network includes more than 25 of the e-gaming industry’s
strongest brands and operators and has up to 45,000 concurrent players
at peak hours. Ongame operates on regulated iGaming markets, including
France, Italy, Denmark, and Spain. Further information about the Company
can be found at www.ongame.com.
This news release may contain “forward-looking” statements within the
meaning of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and is subject to the
safe harbor created thereby. Such information involves important risks
and uncertainties that could significantly affect the results in the
future and, accordingly, such results may differ from those expressed in
any forward-looking statements. Future operating results may be
adversely affected as a result of a number of risks that are detailed
from time to time in the Company’s filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission. The Company undertakes no obligation to update the
information in this press release and represents that the information is
only valid as of today’s date.
