NOVOMATIC further expands casino competencies in Lithuania
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On 1 May 2015, NOVOMATIC‘S local Lithuanian subsidiary operating under the trademark „Casino Tornado" will be opening in Kaunas what will be its fifth casino operation in Lithuania. The new location will increase the total number of gaming terminals operated by NOVOMATIC at its casinos and at 20 other gaming establishments across Lithuania to over 700.
In addition, after extensive and comprehensive negotiations, the Tornado team has successfully obtained an-other license for the operation of a casino in the capital city of Vilnius. This license award for what will be the sixth casino operation in Lithuania, impressively demonstrates the successful activities of NOVOMATIC‘s local Lithuanian management who will then be backed by over 600 employees. The casino is projected to open in the fourth quarter of this year.
NOVOMATIC has been very successfully engaged in business activities in the Baltic States for over 20 years. In Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania together NOVOMATIC employs a staff of over 2,000 and in addition to the five casinos in Lithuania, operates a total of 160 gaming establishments offering 4,600 gaming terminals.
About NOVOMATIC
The NOVOMATIC Group is one of the largest integrated gaming groups in the world and the clear number one in Europe with more than 22,000 employees worldwide (3,000 of those located in Austria). The cor-porate group, which was founded by the industrialist Prof. Johann F. Graf in 1980, is one of Austria‘s leading technology groups, operating locations in 50 countries and exporting innovative gaming equipment, systems solutions, lottery system solutions and services to 80 countries.
The Group today operates more than 232,000 gaming devices and video lottery terminals (VLTs) in over 1,500 own electronic and regular casinos, as well as via rental models. In the area of casinos, the Group owns one of the casinos with the highest revenues in Switzerland, as well as the casinos with the highest revenues in Germany (Berlin) and in the Czech Republic. With 200 locations, ADMIRAL Sportwetten GmbH is the sports betting provider with the most outlets in Austria. The subsidiary Greentube Internet Entertainment Solutions GmbH is the leading European B2B provider in the area of online gaming and a leading provider of socialgaming services in Europe, the US and Australasia. The competencies in the area of lottery technology have been strengthened and expanded with the acquisition of Betware (headquartered in Iceland) and theestablishment of NOVOMATIC Lottery Solutions GmbH.
Apart from the headquarters in Gumpoldskirchen, south of Vienna, the Group, which owns more than 3,250 IP trade mark rights, operates a total of thirteen production locations and 19 competence centers in Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, Holland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Iceland and Argentina.
In the area of responsible gaming, NOVOMATIC also collaborates with scientific institutions and organizations focused on the treatment of gaming addiction to set new standards with the implementation of prevention and access control systems for the prevention of pathological gaming behavior. Within the scope of its cor-porate social responsibility policy, NOVOMATIC supports numerous social, cultural, scientific and sports-related initiatives.
