The supplier side of the gaming industry has recently changed dramatically. Beginning with the purchase of WMS by Scientific Games, then the Bally Technologies buy of SHFL entertainment, continuing through GTECH’s acquisition of IGT and dramatically concluding with Scientific Games gobbling up Bally. Aristocrat has done its part with a recent purchase of VGT and later Paltronics. Jamie Odell, the chief executive of Aristocrat, believes that consolidation is not over, and there will be more synergistic buys and joint ventures in the future. He explains how he’s handling the VGT acquisition and why Paltronics made sense to him. He talks about the Aristocrat strategies going forward and the opportunities in the U.S. and North American that VGT puts on the table. He spoke with GGB Publisher Roger Gros at the Aristocrat offices in Las Vegas in August.
