“Customers just loved and bought the Merkur Gaming reel machines and currently we are the only company continu-ously developing new reel machines for the Italian market.” Therefore, also CSO of Merkur Gaming, Axel F. Pawlas, was extremely satisfied with the trend and resulting sales volume.

Not only the successful reel machines ‘Lucky Cash’, ‘Sphinx Gold’ and ‘Dicemaster’ but also the innovations ’Sphinx Dia-mante’ and ‘Lucky Cash Diamante’, both with state of the art LED technology, were on display.

 Especially the machines with modern LED technologies were in the focus of the customers in Italy. The innovative multi-color technology creates unique and diverse light effects and thus attracts more attention from the players. But the tech-nology is also economically convincing because of cost economies thanks to lower power consumption, long life of the diodes and the lower maintenance effort that goes along with it.

For the MERKUR GAMING customers it proved once more that now is the right time to invest in new Merkur machines. MERKUR GAMING is also optimally prepared for pending legal amendments. “When required, the relevant conversion kits are being made available immediately”, confirmed Merkur Gamings CSO.

Under the umbrella of MERKUR INTERNATIONAL, MERKUR GAMING is responsible for the Europe-wide sales within the internationally active Gauselmann Group. In 2005, the total business volume of all Gauselmann Group compa-nies amounted to EUR 1.004b, with fully consolidated reve-nues of EUR 688.2m. At the end of the fiscal year 2005 the company employed 5,638 people worldwide and has sold approximately 2 million gaming products around the globe since its establishment. More than 500 game developers everywhere in the world are working on game designs, mathematics, graphics, and quality management, thus un-derlining the innovation capabilities and competence of the Gauselmann Group.