Directorate Change

RNS Number : 0068L

Playtech Limited

02 January 2009

 



Playtech Limited

('Playtech' or 'the Company')

William Hill transaction completion and Directorate change

Playtech (AIM: PTEC), the international designer, developer and licensor of software for the online, mobile and land-based gaming industry, is pleased to announce that it has completed  the  transaction with William Hill, as previously announced on 20 October, 2008. 

Following the above completion Avigur Zmora will step down from his role as a Director of the Company with immediate effect, having steered the William Hill transaction through its completion process. Mr. Zmora will remain as a consultant to the Company and the board is grateful to him for all his past contributions and his continued commitment to the business.

Playtech will provide further information to investors in its normal pre-close trading statement on 22 January 2009.

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For further information contact:

Mor Weizer, CEO, Playtech Ltd  Shuki Barak, CFO, Playtech Ltd c/o Bell Pottinger Corporate & Financial www.playtech.com	Tel: [phone]
Piers Coombs / Bruce Garrow Collins Stewart	Tel: [phone]
Mumtaz Naseem  Deutsche Bank	Tel: [phone]
David Rydell / Olly Scott / Helen Tarbet / Sam Boston Bell Pottinger Corporate & Financial	Tel. [phone]

About Playtech

Playtech develops unified software platforms for the online and land based gambling industry, primarily targeting existing online operators wanting to upgrade their system; sportsbooks looking to diversify and land-based operators making their online debut. Playtech gaming applications - online casino, poker, bingo, mobile gaming, live gaming, land-based kiosk networks and fixed-odds games - are fully inter-compatible and can be freely incorporated as stand-alone applications, accessed and funded by players through the same user account and managed by the operator by means of a single powerful management interface. Founded in 1999, Playtech has over 750 personnel distributed globally, around seventy five percent of whom are engaged in research and development of current and future gaming technologies.

Website: www.playtech.com

 

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