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Scientific Games Awarded New Contract with Enterprise Inns
 

NEW YORK, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Scientific Games (Nasdaq: SGMS) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Games Media has been awarded an agreement to supply an integrated digital solution to major pub retailer Enterprise Inns PLC in the United Kingdom. The formal agreement follows a successful trial in 140 Enterprise pubs, and will add 110 additional sites, comprising approximately 590 digital server based gaming machines in total across the estate.

Games Media's digital gaming and entertainment solution consists of "Amusement With Prizes" (VAWP) machines, "Skills With Prizes" (SWP) machines and digital music systems linked to a customized communications infrastructure that provides data transfer, active content management and distribution, and remote maintenance. In addition, the Company will supply venue management, product promotion and customer training. Games Media has assembled an extensive and proven content suite which includes the very best games available created both in house and sourced from "best of breed" development partners. The solution is completed with traditional cue sport products provided in partnership with Bar Billiards, a recognized market specialist.

"We are very excited that after an extensive trial with Enterprise Inns that our performance merited a formal contract," said Andrew Ludlow, Managing Director of Games Media. "We have been working closely with Enterprise Inns to ensure we are delivering the best products, content and service, and look forward to expanding the digital gaming and entertainment available in their pubs and increasing their machine income."

Russell Wood, Head of Retail Services at Enterprise Inns commented, "We are pleased to extend our agreement with Games Media. They continue to offer a leading edge gaming offer for the pub sector and are committed to our retailers and the Company. We look forward to continued development of product and game content which could further be enhanced by the current review of stakes and prizes and then delivered quickly onto the network to deliver a new opportunity to our retailers."

About Scientific Games

Scientific Games Corporation is the leading integrated supplier of instant tickets, systems and services to lotteries worldwide, a leading supplier of server based gaming machines and systems, Amusement and Skill with Prize betting terminals, interactive sports betting terminals and systems, and wagering systems and services to pari-mutuel operators. It is also a licensed pari-mutuel gaming operator in Connecticut, Maine and the Netherlands and is a leading supplier of prepaid phone cards to telephone companies. Scientific Games' customers are in the United States and more than 60 other countries. For more information about Scientific Games, please visit our web site at www.scientificgames.com.

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About Enterprise Inns PLC

Formed in 1991 and with an estate totaling more than 7,000 outlets, Enterprise Inns is one of the UK's largest leased and tenanted pub operators. The company is based in Solihull in the West Midlands and employs 500 people providing operational and retail support to its licensees.

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements in this press release which are not historical facts, constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements, including those relating to timing of contracts, renewals or other events, business plans and performance objectives, are based upon management's current expectations, assumptions and estimates and are not guarantees of future results or performance. Actual results may differ materially from those projected in these statements due to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors, including, among other things: competition; material adverse changes in economic and industry conditions in our markets; technological change; protection of intellectual property; security and integrity of software and systems; laws and government regulation, including those relating to gaming licenses, permits and operations; seasonality; dependence on suppliers and manufacturers; factors associated with foreign operations; failure to retain, renew or perform on contracts; resolution of pending or future litigation; and other factors described from time to time in our filings with the SEC, including our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and except for our ongoing obligations under the U.S. federal securities laws, we undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.


SOURCE Scientific Games Corporation