Ladbrokes is preparing to expand into India should sports betting be made legal, potentially opening up a huge untapped marketplace, Director John O’Reilly told Reuters in an interview this week. Although sports betting is officially illegal in India, matches in the Indian Premier League cricket tournament reportedly attract around USD 2 billion in illegal betting.

Nachdem erst vor wenigen Wochen im rumänischen Pitesti ein modernes Entertainmentcenter unter der Marke Merkur Casino eröffnet wurde, vermeldet die Unternehmenstochter der deutschen Gauselmann Gruppe nun einen weiteren Fortschritt in ihrer Expansionsstrategie.

Cherokee - Harrah's Cherokee Casino plans to continue with a USD 650 million expansion to double its gambling floor space by 2012 even though the gambling business is taking a hit in the economic downturn. Harrah's Cherokee is one of western North Carolina's largest employers with 1,800 workers. The Eastern Band of Cherokees pays Harrah's to run its casino.

Casino patrons on the weekend were giving glowing reviews of the upgrades and new USD 430-million expansion unveiled a few weeks ago at Caesars Windsor, saying they feel it will attract more customers to the venue and city. Business appears to have slightly improved since the casino re-opened June 19 under the Caesars brand and new convention centre addition were unveiled, said several regulars and occasional visitors to the casino.

Plains, Pennsylvania — In three weeks, when the first visitors walk through the main entrance of the new casino at Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs, they will pass a sculpture that starts as a hunk of coal at its base. Slowly, as it spins toward the ceiling, fist-sized black chunks morph into clear rocks and finally into polished diamonds. When the USD 208 million expansion opens July 17, it will reflect the Pennsylvania coal country where it sits and how the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority...

The final price tag on the huge addition that transforms Casino Windsor into Caesars Windsor is CAD 439 million, says Kelly McDougald, the new CEO of the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. "That's as of yesterday," McDougald said Thursday as she prepared to travel to Windsor to take part in the first public tours of the new building on Friday. The new casino opens officially Thursday with a gala party for thousands of invited customers and other guests from all over North America.

Woodland, California - A massive expansion planned for the Cache Creek Casino Resort is getting some harsh criticism from the Yolo County Board of Supervisors. The Rumsey Band of Wintun Indians wants to add a 10-story hotel tower with 467 rooms and a 62,500-square-foot event center to its casino in the Capay Valley northwest of Sacramento. But county supervisors approved a letter Tuesday saying the tribe's environmental report understates the expansion's effects.

B.C.'s biggest casino is one step closer to growing even bigger. Richmond city staff has recommended a permit be granted to allow the 151,000-square-foot River Rock Casino Resort to build a 38,000-sq.-ft. addition that would link it to a station under construction across the street for the Canada Line. The application will be heard Tuesday afternoon by the development permit panel.

Die NOVOMATIC AG hat im Geschäftsjahr 2007 bei Umsatz und Ergebnis neue Rekordwerte erzielt. Der Konzernumsatz stieg im abgelaufenen Geschäftsjahr um 27 Prozent auf 960,2 (Vorjahr: 754,6) Mio. EUR. Das EBITDA (Konzernergebnis vor Zinsen, Steuern und Abschreibungen) legte mit 329,3 (Vorjahr: 199,3) Mio EUR um 65 Prozent zu. Auch das Ergebnis der gewöhnlichen Geschäftstätigkeit stieg um 62 Prozent und erreichte 248,2 Mio. EUR (Vorjahr: 152,8).

Novomatic has begun working on the building of a major extension to its factory in Austria. The group, based in the small town of Gumpoldskirchen, just south of Vienna, has broken ground on the project, which is due for completion in October of next year. The building, 300m long by 50m wide and two-storied, will house research and development and some manufacturing processes will be transferred into it.

Kuala Lumpur: Casino operators and casino machine suppliers stand to benefit from further liberalisation of the industry in the region, as they could cross sell their services and products through branches set up in different countries. Several countries, including Thailand and Taiwan, have expressed their intention to legalise casino operations...

Mississippi could lose millions of dollars and thousands of jobs because of impending casino expansions in Florida, according to a recent analysis by a legislative watchdog group. So the state's gaming industry is taking steps to counter the competition. And some lawmakers are pushing a bill that would give tax breaks for casinos that want to build tourist attractions to woo non-gamers. Floridians represented 21.2 percent of visitors to Mississippi's 29 casinos in 2007, according to a memo issued by the Joint Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review.