Gaming1
Also known as: GAMING1, Gaming1 Group
Gaming1 is a Belgian gaming group headquartered in Liège that combines a casino and sports-betting technology platform, an in-house game studio and land-based and online casino operations. It supplies its platform and exclusive games, including slots, crash games and land-based gaming machines, to partner operators in regulated markets.
- Founded
- 2011
- Headquarters
- Liège, Belgium
- Ownership
- Part of the Ardent Group portfolio; CVC Capital Partners Fund VIII became a shareholder in 2021. The website is operated by Techno1 (VAT BE0834705883), and the site footer names HQ1 SA (VAT BE0738.871.467), Rue des Guillemins 129, 4000 Liège.
- Products
- casino and sportsbook platform, sportsbook, slots, crash games, table games, land-based gaming machines
- Also known as
- GAMING1, Gaming1 Group
- Website
- www.gaming1.com
- linkedin.com/company/gaming1
History
Gaming1 traces its roots to the Circus gaming-hall brand, which opened its first room in Liège in 1992, and to the web agency ProduWeb, founded in 2002. In 2011 Circus and ProduWeb combined their operating and technology expertise to create Gaming1 and launch Circus.be; the company then offered a turnkey online platform to Belgian land-based operators. It opened a Malta office in 2014 to run international partnerships, starting with Circus.es in Spain, followed by online operations in Romania, Serbia, Portugal and Colombia.
In October 2018 the gaming activities of the Ardent Group were merged with the original Gaming1 company under the name Gaming1 Group. The group kept acquiring land-based casinos in France and Switzerland, entered the Netherlands with circus.nl in 2022, and in 2021 formed the Gamewise joint venture with Delaware North to bring its sports-betting platform to North American land-based operators. CVC Capital Partners Fund VIII became a shareholder in 2021.
Notable
- States that it has created more than 150 games, which are hosted on 65 platforms.
- Builds exclusive multi-game electronic gaming machines for land-based venues as well as online games.
- Lists offices in Belgium, Malta, Romania, France, Switzerland and Portugal.
- Says it has more than 1,600 employees and reported a turnover of 275 million euros in 2020.
Notable work
- Mayan Legacy Gridders Jackpot
- Never Ending Mystery
- Mine Train
- Lightning God
- Crack The Safe
- Fakir
How well established
The company history, Liège headquarters, Belgian VAT entities and the Ardent Group and CVC shareholdings are documented on the official site. Specific gaming licence numbers for its B2B activity are not stated there.
