More than 1,200 members of Canada’s gaming industry are gathered in Montreal from April 29 to May 1 in Canadian Gaming Summit, a three-day event consisting of over 40 workshops and seminars, more than 100 exhibitors of gaming products and services, and a charity awards gala. "This is a unique opportunity to come together and discuss the opportunities and challenges shaping our industry today," said Bill Rutsey...

The American Gaming Association and JCM Global are set to celebrate their decade-long partnership for responsible gaming at the 10th annual JCM/AGA Golf Classic held at Cascata in Boulder City, Nevada, on April 28. The Golf Classic is a fundraiser for the National Center for Responsible Gaming (NCRG). Since its inception, the event has raised more than USD 500,000 for the NCRG, including USD 75,000 last year.

Las Vegas – The American Gaming Association and JCM Global are set to celebrate their decade-long partnership for responsible gaming at the 10th annual JCM/AGA Golf Classic held at Cascata in Boulder City, Nev., on April 28. The Golf Classic is a fundraiser for the National Center for Responsible Gaming (NCRG). Since its inception, the event has raised more than USD 500,000 for the NCRG, including USD 75,000 last year.

An industry report crediting gambling for creating thousands of jobs and contributing CAD 15.3 billion a year to the economy was dismissed by critics Tuesday, who said the "one-sided" advertisement fails to account for the social costs of gambling addictions or the lack of new revenue generated by the industry. The Canadian Gaming Association's report found gambling accounted for 267,000 full-time jobs a year, and said 57 per cent of gambling revenue - CAD 8.7 billion - also supported government services and charities.

Online and land-based gambling companies in the UK have demonstrated a higher level of advertising compliance than any other industry sector, according to a leading voice in European marketing regulation. A survey conducted by the European Advertising Standards Alliance in the wake of the UK Gambling Act, which was implemented in September 2007, analyzed gambling adverts in the national press, consumer magazines, posters, direct mailings, internet, television and radio.

Istanbul, Turkey (March 17, 2008), GamblingAnalysts.eu, the gambling research and analyst group, working from Istanbul and Amsterdam, launched two new reports on the Turkish gambling industry. This year two major gambling events will take place in Turkey: the privatization of the Turkish National lottery and the 10 year-long tender for sports betting. Professionals in this industry know how difficult it is in Turkey to get all the information needed for a proper decision.

Taipei -- The government will not open up the casino industry for the moment due to the absence of relevant legal framework and a lack of public consensus, Ho Mei-yueh, chairwoman of the Council for Economic Planning and Development (CEPD), said yesterday. Ho was responding to a question from opposition Kuomintang (KMT) Legislator Chiang Yi-hsiung during a Legislative Yuan committee meeting.

This year, on October 3-5, will see the 16th anniversary of one of the world’s biggest trade show, EELEX, one of the central events in the gaming and entertainment industry, to be held in the world class Crocus Expo Center in Moscow. The Russian gaming market has 400,000 gaming machines half of which needs to be replaced or exchanged, thus a huge demand for new ones.

London/Munich, September 6, 2007: Lotteries are increasingly interested in benchmarking and success factors, as for example the recent WLA seminar “Benchmarking Lottery Performance” has shown. In response, MECN has prepared a unique benchmarking report analysing data from more than 150 lotteries. The report also discusses best practices as well as success factors (results of a survey of lottery executives).

Mit Wirkung vom 8. August 2007 übernahm Austrian Gaming Industries GmbH (AGI) , die 100% Tochtergesellschaft der Novomatic AG, die kontrollierende Anteilsmehrheit der Crown Technologies GmbH, einem führenden Hersteller von Geldwechsler-systemen auf dem deutschen Markt. Die erst kürzlich gegründete Crown Technologies GmbH hat ihrerseits im Mai 2007 die wesentlichen Assets der in Insolvenz gegangenen, bereits 1906 in Hamburg gegründeten Firma Bergmann Automaten übernommen.

The casino industry in Trinidad and Tobago is bracing itself for next Monday’s Budget. Yesterday, President of the Association of Members’ Clubs (AMC) Brian Phillips, said that he was not optimistic about the upcoming presentation, but called on Government to stick by promises it made to the workers of the casino industry, if it does indeed go ahead with plans to shut the industry down.

The gambling industry has been forced to establish a new body to draw up a voluntary code for socially responsible advertising, weeks before the Gambling Act 2005 comes into force. The group will monitor the code, adding to the plethora of different bodies, including the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), already regulating the industry. Members will be drawn from representatives of a number of gambling associations.