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Coin-op suppliers exhibiting in a new dedicated section at the Leisure Industry Week (LIW) show are hoping to reach customers beyond their usual base.

SAM Leisure, RLMS Sales, Harry Levy Amusements and Electrocoin were among the first firms to book stands within LIW's Coin-Op Showcase, located in the play and attractions area of the exhibition.

“We like an autumn showcase as it provides an opportunity to meet our customers after the summer,” said Harry Levy of Harry Levy Amusements. “We hope to meet not only our usual buyers but also new contacts from other leisure sectors.”

Gamestec's TabBoxx pull-tab lottery game is said to be attracting pub customers who wouldn't normally use gaming machines.

Offering prizes up to £1000, the system is now installed in more than 200 sites, some taking £80 a day. Part of the proceeds are being given to charity.

At Yates's in Barrow-in-Furness. manager Brian Clarke said: “The TabBoxx machine has been really popular with our customers. They like the fact that by playing they are supporting a good cause. We have a mixed customer base at our pub – although people of all ages have been playing, it seems particularly popular with the over-40s.

British bookmakers are increasingly looking to gaming machines to provide income growth in the face of widespread closures and growing costs.

Five hundred betting shops have closed across the UK in just two years, according to Global Betting and Gaming Consultants, a decline that the

Association of British Bookmakers has characterised as the beginning of an “unprecedented downward spiral as the extortionate media rights fall on the remaining shops”.

A man has been banned from every amusement arcade in Britain after a series of thefts from gaming machines.

Peter Storr, 22, was given the five-year anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) as well as a suspended six-month prison sentence and 150 hours of work in the community after pleading guilty to stealing money from the devices.

 Praesepe is to continue offering Project's gaming machines at the sites it runs under the Cashino, Beacon Bingo and Showboat brands.

British pubco Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has sold its 24 Hollywood Bowl tenpin bowling venues to AMF Bowling, which already operates 33 alleys across the country.

AMF is paying £27m for the business and brand, and M&B hopes to raise a further £12m by selling the freeholds of those bowling alleys where it owns the premises.

The sale, which follows M&B's recent disposal of 52 budget hotels, is part of its strategy to concentrate on its food-led pubs. AMF, originally American-owned, has since 2004 been a subsidiary of Bourne Leisure, which also owns Butlins.

Gaming legislation is killing off the traditional British seaside town and the amusement-machine manufacturing sector, the British Amusement Catering Trade Association (BACTA) has charged.

The trade body is calling for the government to restore the £2 maximum stake on Category B3 machines and allow more machines at each venue. The maximum stake was reduced from £2 to £1 by the Gambling Act of 2005, which also limited the number of units per site.

But before he was elected in May of this year, Prime Minister David Cameron assured one of BACTA's members in writing that he would make these changes if he came to power, according to the association.

UK pubs continue to invest in gaming and entertainment systems, with pubcos TCG and Enterprise Inns both awarding large contracts.

Gamestec has won a two-year deal to supply systems to TCG, whose chief operating officer Nigel Wright said: “We were impressed by Gamestec and have given them a percentage of our business going forward. They have undergone major changes over the past two years and we believe they can provide a new approach to our leisure-machines offering.”

A busy second quarter for Codere, especially in Latin America, saw the firm record a healthy profit from higher-than-expected earnings.

Earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation were €55.9m, up 12.7 percent on the same quarter in 2009 and well above the company's predicted €51-53m. Net income was €4.3m, compared to a loss of €7.4m in the same quarter a year ago.

Both earnings and income from operations were much the same as in the first quarter, leaving aside the large non-recurring gain associated with Codere's acquisition of William Hill's stake in Sports Betting during that quarter.

Madrid's bingo halls say they need to move from cards to electronic games in order to survive.

“If the bingo sector of Madrid does not have the possibility to introduce new areas of business to innovate and expand the range of its entertainment offers, it will close and there will be no possibility of continuing,” Jose Luis Merino, general secretary of the Asociación de Empresarios de Juegos Autorizados (ASEJU), was quoted as saying.

Codacons, the Italian association for the protection of consumers, has released the first findings from a study of the relationship between young people and gaming. Still unofficial and yet to be published, it has emerged from research conducted by Codacons in conjunction with Italy’s state monopolies.

Gambling is growing at the rate of 13 percent a year, with €53bn bet in 2009 alone: and more and more adolescents are getting involved, as shown by the data from a study of 40,000 students, led by the Institute of Clinical Physiology of the National Research Council of Pisa (Ifc-Cnr) as part of the “Il gioco è una cosa seria” (“Gaming is a serious matter”) project.

Online gaming in Italy grew by 31.3 percent in July compared to the same month last year. Receipts were €319.1m against €242.9m a year ago. According to data from the regulator AAMS, however, this represented a decrease of 14 percent on June’s €371m.

The average takings each day are €10.3m. Over the first seven months of the year takings amount to nearly €2.9bn, an increase of 42.7 percent over the same period in 2009 (€2bn).

Every month Euroslot brings you the latest regulations, court rulings and government policies affecting the industry around the world

ARGENTINA

Gaming Laboratories International will hold its Latin American regulators’ round table in Buenos Aires on 28 September. Topics to be covered will include money laundering, Internet gaming, lotteries and network security.

The House Financial Services Committee in late July voted 41-22 to support the Internet Gambling Regulation and Consumer Protection and Enforcement Act (HR 2267) sponsored by the committee’s chairman, Representative Barney Frank.

The bill now proceeds to the full House where Speaker Nancy Pelosi must schedule a vote.

If enacted, the proposal will legalise online poker and other non-sports betting and create a multibillion-dollar U.S. market for Internet wagering. It is estimated that Internet gaming would generate up to $4bn in annual taxes and regulatory fees for the U.S. government.

The International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA) has committed to hold its annual IAAPA Attractions Expo at the Orange County Convention Center (OCCC) in Orlando, Florida until 2019.

The new agreement adds five years to the association’s original deal with the OCCC (pictured), and means the scheduled 2011 Las Vegas expo is cancelled.

The governor of Illinois, Pat Quinn, signed legislation in late July to involve more operators in the state’s planned video lottery market.

The new law makes technical changes to the original Video Gaming Act from July 2009, which was strongly supported by the Illinois Coin Machine Operators Association (ICMOA).

Despite opposition from the Illinois Gaming Board (IGB) Chairman Aaron Jaffe, the new legislation passed in the General Assembly.

Taking place in Hall 1 and 2 of the Poly World Trade Expo Center in Guangzhou City, China from 26 to 28 August, GTI Asia China Expo 2010 had 135 exhibitors displaying their latest products on 21,000 square meters of show floor.

Almost every well-known China-based company in the sector was there, including Shiyu Group & Unis Technology, Wahlap Technology, Guangzhou Sun-wing Electronics Technology, Bao Hui Technology, Mecpower Electronics, HuaTong Technology, Zhongshan Dragon World (International) Game & Amusement Sourcing Platform, Guangzhou Belrare Electronic Technology, 3D Gaming（Hangzhou)/3D Gaming（Guangzhou), Guangzhou Ruo Hai Electronic Equipment, Game Plus, KN&U Electronics, Shuang Yi Animation Technology/Shuang Ying Software Development, Liuzhou Lanhai Technology, Macrown Animation Technology, and more.

Sony Computer Entertainment Taiwan (SCET) is predicted to move into the Pier-2 Art District in the city of Kaohsiung this October at the latest and will work with local software companies on five game-development projects.

Liu Shin-jeng of Kaohsiung’s Economic Development Bureau said that Sony chose the Pier-2 Art District, near Kaohsiung’s harbour, for its software testing centre after long discussions involving the firm’s president Tetsuhiko Yasuda.

Offering the right music isn’t just a way to please your customers – it can provide extra income too. Discover how the experts believe music can help build your business

It’s one of the great universals: nearly everyone enjoys some form of music, and nearly every venue can benefit from the right soundtrack. But we’ve come a long way from the easy options of piped Muzak or a radio behind the cash desk. Today’s delivery systems for music are designed to precisely match the audio to the audience, and in many cases to generate a revenue stream too.

CZECH REPUBLIC

Experts are divided on President Václav Klaus’ veto of an amendment to gambling regulations that would have given municipalities the power to regulate and license modern video gambling terminals in their districts.

Some agree with the move, saying the amendment was ill-prepared and weak, while others say the move simply sanctions the unacceptably high level of gambling in the Czech Republic.

More than 60 billion Kč ($3 billion), or more than 1 billion Kč per week, were put into slot machines in 2008, the last year of available figures. There are estimated to be more than 60,000 gaming machines nationwide.

What really makes the top people in this sector tick? In the first of a series of profiles, we talk to the chairman of Embed International as he announces the firm’s merger with Playsafe

How did you first get involved with the amusements industry?

My father Malcolm Steinberg has been involved in the coin-op industry since 1958 so it was probably always destiny. My first exposure was working holiday jobs in my father’s LAI Group factory where games from U.S. and Japanese game companies were built under licence for the Australian market – videos, redemption and pinball.