Inside Asian Gaming

INSIDE ASIAN GAMING | January 2013 30 FEATURES I t’s a retooled, repurposed TCS JOHNHUXLEY entering the new year, eager to build on its successes in Asia as both a top distributor and an imaginative developer of table games and supporting systems. The last 12 months have been significant ones for UK-based HUXLEY, with Cath Burns taking the helm as group CEO last March and veteran Executive Director of Operations Rebecca Kingswell stepping up last summer to replaceTristan Sjöberg as head of the Asia business and Dr Sjöberg assuming the role of Executive Chairman with the passing of his father, Bertil Knutsson, the company’s owner and guiding spirit. To hear management tell it, what transpired over this period was something akin to a corporate soul-searching. Strengths and weaknesses were scrutinized. Operational capabilities were reviewed and revised. Core values have been reaffirmed. No small thing for a company whose name has long been synonymous worldwide with innovative technologies for the pit. Significantly, there’s now a new vigor behind the money and mind capital being directed toward refining and expanding the product portfolio. “It’s exciting,” says MarketingManager Tracy Cohen.“It’s a new focus for us that we didn’t previously have and it puts us in a stronger position as a company, definitely, for growth.” If you were spying the influence in all this of the highly respected Ms Burns, who was instrumental over the last decade in putting Bally Technologies on the map in Macau and across East and Southeast Strengths and weaknesses were scrutinized. Operational capabilities were reviewed and revised. Core values have been reaffirmed. No small thing for a company whose name has long been synonymous worldwide with innovative technologies for the pit. Redrawing the Road Map TCSJOHNHUXLEY is charting new paths to growth around a renewed emphasis on product development