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Top tips for better gaming machines returns

22-Apr-2013 By Simon Barff

Modern pub retailing is all about food and drink isn’t it? Well, no. The majority of pubs have a huge, and in many cases, untapped, opportunity to drive profits up – by up to 30% – through a greater focus on AWP machines, and machine players.

S&NPC reports 8% rise in machine income after using new monitoring system

19-Apr-2012 By John Harrington, M&C Report

Scottish & Newcastle Pub Company (S&NPC), the leased pub operator, has reported an 8% rise in year-on-year gaming machine income after implementing a system to monitor more closely the performance of machines.

The issue with the machine tie

20-Mar-2012 By Phil Dixon

‘Phil just has a thing about machines,’ Neil Robertson, former BII chief executive, would inform those assembled. Or he’d say ‘Phil will no doubt wish to comment he has a bit of an issue with machines’.

Punch extends Gamestec deal

23-Dec-2011 By Mark Wingett

Punch Taverns has signed a two-year supply agreement with Gamestec, the country’s largest leisure machine operator.

The danger of digital gaming

13-Jun-2011 By John Appleton

The advent of 'digital' AWP machines could decrease the profit from pub gaming machines, warns John Appleton, director of electronic leisure at...

Managed AWP pub machine takes up by 20%

05-Feb-2010 By The PMA Team

A number of managed operators are seeing cash takes from AWP machines go up by 15%-20% thanks to good cash-hopper management, Sceptre Leisure chief...

IPC: delay pub AWP machine tax changes

16-Nov-2009 By John Harrington

The Government should drop plans to tax gaming machines on their gross profit until the pubco machine tie is scrapped. That's according to the...

Punch's vision of the future

19-Jun-2009 By The PMA Team

New Punch boss Roger Whiteside has given the sector's first indication of how a post-Bec tenanted pub company will look. The PMA Team gives it the once-over.

Machine changes may be no jackpot

03-Jul-2008

The news that the review of gaming machines has been brought forward by a year has been greeted with enthusiasm by sectors of the trade, in...

Back to basics: machine management

21-Mar-2007

As you might have noticed from the cigarette burns on your fruit machines, AWP players also tend to be smokers. That means that, under a smoking ban,...

Short-lived thrill for AWP increase

26-Oct-2006 By Peter Coulson

While I can understand the leap of joy experienced when the intense lobbying by the licensed trade organisations resulted in a stake and prize...

Wash, Listen and Learn - PubChef's tips on choosing dishwashers

01-Jun-2005 By Danny Blyth

Danny Blyth looks at tips for choosing the right machine to meet your pub's needs Choosing the dishwasher that's right for your pub can be a...

Technology: Winning streak

09-Feb-2005

Phil Mellows explores games machines in pubs and discovers that it is possible for everyone to be a winner, in this case especially the licensee.Amid...

Making it pay: advice from Fuller's

30-Sep-2004

At Fuller's, "machine income is healthy, but not as healthy as it could be", according to Elton Mouna, who is responsible for machines at the London...

The vapour trials

24-Mar-2004

A Bristol licensee has bought a machine that allows her customers to inhale spirits rather than drink them. But is this the image the licensed trade...

Buy a Foster's and get a free play ­ the latest offer from S

10-Jul-2003

Scottish & Newcastle Retail has teamed up with Leisure Link, its major machine supplier, to trial what is believed to be an industry first. The...

AWP limits could lose industry £43m

08-Nov-2001

Trade warns that machine restrictions may lead to pub closuresPlans to restrict the number of AWP machines in pubs would cost the trade £43m every...