Tag Archives: Amusements
UK – Bacta Bikers raise hopes for Rays of Sunshine
Specialist gaming control design and manufacturer Heber has supported the super-heroic efforts of the bacta Bikers in raising funds for the Rays of Sunshine UK charity. The bacta bikers formed in 1991 are a group of motorcyclists working within the UK Amusement and Gaming industry who regularly undertake various challenging and elaborate journeys to raise…
UK – Bacta raises the political stakes
British amusements trade association Bacta has embarked on one of the most intensive programmes of political engagement in its recent history initiating three high profile events in the course of a week. On Tuesday September 19, a bacta delegation comprising President, Gabi Stergides, former President Jason Frost and Chief Executive John White, attended a meeting…
UK – Bacta announces launch of President’s Community Awards
RLMS Managing Director, Tony Glanville and Bell-Fruit’s Group Sales and Customer Liaison Manager, Vanda Osinska, are the first recipients of the President’s bacta Community Awards, an initiative introduced by National President, Gabi Stergides to recognise the sterling work undertaken by bacta members in their local and regional communities. The award to Tony Glanville and wife…
UK – Genting to bring amusements floor to resorts World Birmingham
Genting is launching a brand new family entertainment centre to operate alongside its Resorts World Birmingham casino. To be called Vortex Gaming the state-of-the-art family entertainment centre will bring an immersive digital experience and iconic gameplay to the casino. It will feature leading gaming brands such as Namco and Sega over two floors, one of…
UK – Praesepe business continues to grow with acquisition of 25 AGCs from William Clark
Praesepe has increased its national estate of Adult Gaming Centres (AGCs) with the purchase of 25 venues from William Clark for an undisclosed sum. The sites, described by Praesepe CEO, Nick Harding, as being ‘excellent businesses in top locations and managed by skilled and experienced teams’, increases the Praesepe business portfolio to over 185 trading…
UK – Town and County win JCM distribution deal
Town and County Leisure, the Birmingham headquartered national gaming and amusements company, has secured distribution rights to the JCM FutureLogic market leading Ticket2Go system. Ticket2Go fully supports the GBG (Gambling Business Group) UK TiTO standards and has been qualified with digital and analogue machines operating in the UK market, including SG Gaming (T7 and T8…
UK – British coin-op looks forward to ACOS 2015
Less than a year has passed since the launch of the very first Autumn Coin-Op Show and there is already a palpable buzz around the industry as exhibitors and visitors look forward to the 2015 event. ACOS 2015, will take place on October 14 to 15 and will, once again, be located at Chelsea Football…
UK – Talarius tests innovative self-exclusion software from SmartALERT
Talarius, the UK’s largest operator of Adult Gaming Centres (AGCs), will be the first Adult Gaming Centre to trial SmartEXCLUSION, a customer self-exclusion solution that enables multiple branches to be alerted quickly when someone self-excludes. The technology will be installed in five of Talarius’ Quicksilver venues in the North East for an ongoing period to…
UK – Praesepe appoints Sue Griffiths to new Compliance role
Praesepe, which operates a total of 160 adult gaming centres, family entertainment centres and bingo clubs located throughout the UK, has confirmed the appointment of Sue Griffiths to the newly created post of Compliance Officer. Sue Griffiths, who has over a decade’s gaming industry experience, most recently with Embed-UK, reports directly to Commercial Director Byron…
