Washington Lottery Selects GTECH
WEST GREENWICH, Rhode Island – (PRESS RELEASE) -- GTECH Holdings Corporation (NYSE: GTK) today announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, GTECH Corporation, has been selected by Washington's Lottery to negotiate a new long-term contract for a new online and instant lottery system, terminals, communications network, and ongoing services. The award follows a competitive procurement and is subject to the execution of a formal contract.
"GTECH offered Washington's Lottery proven capabilities, solutions, and quality of services that will meet the Lottery's vision for the future, enabling them to respond to market challenges with accelerated innovation," said GTECH President and CEO W. Bruce Turner. "Enterprise Series is the industry's most powerful and flexible integration platform, using best-in- class components and unifying decision-management, leading-edge technology standards, and enterprise-wide data accessibility.
"With the solid foundation of ES, and our retailer-friendly Altura terminals and highly-reliable communications network, we stand ready with the most proven solutions that embrace creative new game content and distribution capabilities -- solutions that will drive further growth and return more value to the state of Washington," continued Mr. Turner.
GTECH has been a lottery technology partner to Washington's Lottery since 1995. Further details of the award will be made available upon the successful negotiation of a new contract.

