Preface 10 Casino City’s Global Gaming Almanac and ownership share. Ranked lists of the largest gaming properties worldwide based on a variety of criteria and lists of gaming properties organized by property type are also provided. Casino City’s GlobalGamingAlmanac.com online service complements the print edition of the almanac with a variety of features and additional information. Interactive maps are provided showing the location of every gaming property covered in the almanac. You can zoom in on the maps to see close-up satellite images of properties and click on a property icon to see its details. A market analyzer tool is provided that shows a variety of statistics for a given gaming property in relation to all properties in a designated surrounding geographic area. More than 800 annual reports of gaming business based outside of North America are also available in addition to online access to the current and all prior editions of the almanac. The creation of Casino City's Global Gaming Almanac and Casino City’s GlobalGamingAlmanac.com online service and the development of the infrastructure required to support their production and the production of the other gaming analyst products were a massive effort involving many disciplines by a team of very dedicated people. We're proud of the effort put forth by every employee of Casino City Press. Steve Bloom, Vice President of Engineering, has overall responsibility for the software engineering efforts required to create the new editions of the almanac and online service, including database design, data-entry applications, and data extract procedures, in addition to managing the design and layout of the book and online service. Andrea Mullaney created the cover artwork for the almanac and the graphics and product tutorial included in the online service. Paul Mogilevsky, Publications Project Manager, had overall product management responsibility and worked closely with the development and content teams to manage the research, analysis and production work required to publish the new edition of the almanac. Paul was a major contributor, gathering financial data, compiling property and game counts, updating gaming jurisdiction summary descriptions and performing quality assurance reviews and final book production. Casino City’s content team is responsible for most of our data collection and update efforts. Simply stated, the new edition of the almanac and the online service would not exist without the dedication of the entire content team. Nancy Reiff and Michael Zadig were responsible for the updated property lists, property details, property associations, and agency and commission data included in this edition. Gary Trask was responsible for gaming jurisdiction descriptions. Other content development team members include Carol Heller, Daniel Ippolito and Nancy Troy. Finally, we'd like to thank you, our customer. It is your words of encouragement and appreciation, your suggestions, and your overwhelming acceptance of our products that make our efforts both rewarding and possible. Michael A. Corfman Sylvia F. Corfman Chief Executive Officer Chief Operating Officer Casino City Press Casino City Press
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