Gaming Activities Industry Competitors

The Atlantic Lottery Corporation sells a lotto tickets to a lotto Canadians. The company (also known as ALC) operates lotteries in the Atlantic Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador....

Jai-alai is the high life for this company. Florida Gaming Corporation owns and operates two jai-alai frontons in Miami and Ft. Pierce, Florida, that feature live jai-alai competition with wagering. The gaming centers offer wagering on simulcast jai-alai from other locations, as well as simulcast horse racing and dog racing....

This gaming company certainly has plenty to celebrate. Gala Coral Group is on of the leading gaming companies in the UK, with operations encompassing bingo, casinos, and sports betting. It runs more than 150 bingo halls throughout the country, as well as some 30 casinos....

Hoosier Park operates Hoosier Park at Anderson, a horse racetrack in Indiana that is seven-eighths of a mile long and has seating for about 2,400 spectators in its grandstand. The racetrack offers standardbred, thoroughbred, and quarter horse racing, as well as simulcast wagering on races from around the world....

If you want to play the lottery in Greece, you'll be dealing with OPAP -- it's the only lottery operator in the country. Originally known in English as the Organization of Football Match Prognostics, OPAP provides a number of different ways to risk your money....

Bet you didn't know that Paddy Power is a pet of punters throughout Ireland! Paddy Power provides betmaking services to Irish and UK bettors (aka punters) through its approximately 200 retail outlets, as well as online and over the phone, for sporting events from tennis and American football to darts, horse racing, and dog racing....

PMU could be French for "those horses are really fast!" Pari Mutuel Urbain is the French horse racing authority, which runs more than 8,800 locations plus online betting, PMU betting cafes, and interactive betting terminals. It also takes bets from more than 30 other countries and offers the French an opportunity to bet on about 100 foreign races....

For those wanting to bet the farm, without the hassle of leaving it, there's Phoenix Interests. The development firm invests in private gaming and entertainment companies. Investments vary from racetrack operators to new technology companies like Online Enterprises, which operates online wagering at BetBarn66.com....

Sportech wants you to be a sport….or at least bet on sport. The company gives folks in the UK any number of ways (phone, internet, mail, interactive TV, even door-to-door “collectors”) to bet on any number of games, from sports (football, racing, golf, rugby, tennis, snooker) and entertainment (with betting linked to such TV programming as Pop Idol and quiz shows)....

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Top Ten knows that you only need five across the top (or down or diagonally) to get a bingo win. The company operates 43 bingo clubs and amusement arcades throughout England and Wales. It also runs a snooker club and online bingo. The company installed outdoor smoking areas at one-third of its clubs after England passed a smoking ban in July 2007....

This company can understand the advantage of owning a couple of different businesses. American Vantage Companies is a holding company that operates through subsidiaries in the gaming industry and the corporate staffing business. Its majority-owned subsidiary Brownstone provides consulting and development services to clients in the casino gaming industry, as well as to those clients trying to get in....

This company lets you play the ponies without being there. American Wagering owns and operates Leroy's Horse and Sports Place, a chain of more than 60 race and sports books located in Nevada. Patrons can place bets on horse races and a variety of other sporting events....

It may be called the Sport of Kings, but horse racing also has plenty of appeal among non-royalty in the UK. Arena Leisure is one of the country's largest racetrack operators with seven racetracks across the UK that welcome half a million visitors annually....

Donating to your favorite charity is no gamble with BGI, Inc. The company manufactures and leases Charity Station gaming equipment that charitable organizations use for fund raising. Machines designed to sell pre-paid phone cards go by the name Lucky Strike....

There's still a gold rush going on in the Golden State, but now you only need to scratch a ticket to find your fortune. The California State Lottery Commission operates several games of chance offering big prizes while collecting money for the state's education budget....

This Camelot has no roundtable, but it can bestow a royal sum. Camelot Group runs the UK's National Lottery (the world's largest lottery), which offers players big jackpots in its numbers games and a variety of instant-win games. Camelot returns nearly 30% of sales to the Good Causes fund, which distributes money to museums, historic restorations, and charities....

The tails of this Canterbury are connected to horses running around a track. The operator of the Canterbury Park racetrack in Shakopee, Minnesota, Canterbury Park Holding offers live pari-mutuel horse racing from May through September. The racetrack also offers year-round betting on simulcast races from racetracks such as Churchill Downs, Hollywood Park, and Belmont Park....

You might say this company has put its money on the sport of champions to win. Churchill Downs is the leading operator of horse racing tracks in the US, with four major race courses including its namesake track that hosts the world famous Kentucky Derby. Its other tracks include Arlington Park (Illinois), Calder Race Course (Florida), and Fair Grounds Race Course (Louisiana)....

Codere doesn't need luck because it has built a business on the premise that "the house never loses". A player in the international gaming scene, Codere has operations in Europe and the Americas consisting of slot machines, bingo halls, betting facilities, casinos, and horse tracks....