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Mikohn Gaming Corporation (NasdaqNM:MIKN)

920 Pilot Road
Las Vegas, NV 89119

Phone: (702) 896-3890
Fax: (702) 896-2461
Email: sharon.walters@mikohn.com   
Employees (last reported count): 655

Mikohn Gaming Corporation, incorporated in 1986, has worldwide operations concentrated in two principal business segments: gaming operations and product sales. The Company's gaming operations segment includes proprietary branded and unbranded slot machines and table games, including its Yahtzee, Battleship and Ripley's Believe It or Not! series of slot machines, and its Caribbean Stud table game. Mikohn's product sales segment includes signage, progressive jackpot systems and player tracking and accounting systems for slot machines and table games.

Gaming Operations Segment

The Company's slot operations include such products as its Yahtzee, Battleship, Ripley's Believe It or Not! and MoneyTime slot machines. Under an exclusive license from Hasbro, Inc., Mikohn developed a series of casino slot games based on Yahtzee, a dice game. In 2000, the Company introduced a slot game based on Battleship, another game that it also licenses from Hasbro, Inc. In the second quarter of 2001, Mikohn launched its Ripley's Believe It or Not! Adventures in Trivia video slot game as a trivia-based slot game. This five-reel, nine-line, 90-coin maximum-bet game, the first within the Company's Think Big series, incorporates scores of human-interest questions. Players win based on the accuracy of their responses. MoneyTime, developed in 1997, is a slot game that uses bonusing to initiate, extend and increase play. Typically, 40 slot machines are configured in a carousel with extensive overhead thematic signage manufactured by the Company promoting the MoneyTime game.

Mikohn introduces table games featuring licensed board game brands through its exclusive license agreements with Hasbro, Inc. The Company licensed the Monopoly brand name for table games from Hasbro, Inc., and it introduced poker and blackjack table games featuring elements from the Monopoly board game. Mikohn also licensed the Clue and Yahtzee brands from Hasbro, Inc for use on table games. Caribbean Stud is a proprietary table game. As of
December 31, 2001 , approximately 900 of the Company's Caribbean Stud tables were in service worldwide in more than 370 casinos in 38 jurisdictions. Mikohn's other table games are Caribbean Draw Poker, Tre' Card Stud, Progressive Blackjack, Progressive Jackpot Pai Gow Poker, Progressive Bad Beat Stud Poker, Monopoly Blackjack and Monopoly Poker Edition (Basic).

In the Gaming Operations segment, the Company's major competitors are Alliance Gaming, Aristocrat, Atronic, International Game Technology, Sigma Game, Konami Gaming Corp. and WMS Industries.

Product Sales Segment

Mikohn has been marketing gaming products around the world since 1987. The Company's gaming products are found in almost every major gaming jurisdiction and include interior casino signage; exterior signage; electronic components used in progressive jackpot systems; player tracking and information gathering, and control systems and special order, oversized and other slot machines for sale.

The Company designs and manufactures interior signage and displays that are marketed and sold either as stand-alone signs or in combination with progressive jackpot systems. Mikohn also designs, manufactures, installs and maintains exterior signage. These projects can vary from themed directional signage to multi-story, double-faced pylon signage, such as the two exterior signs at the Bellagio in
Las Vegas , Nevada .

Mikohn's progressive jackpot and bonusing systems typically are comprised of three components: controllers, a color display of light emitting diode (LEDs) and software. The Company's proprietary controllers are designed to be compatible with the gaming equipment made by the major slot machine manufacturers, including Aristocrat, Atronic, Alliance Gaming, Novomatic Industries, Sigma Game, Universal de Desarrollos Electroonicos,
S.A. (known as UNIDESA), WMS Industries and International Game Technology.

The Company manufactures displays in a wide variety of sizes and designs to accommodate the technical, aesthetic and price requirements of its casino customers. Mikohn produces alphanumeric and graphic electronic displays for use in real-time applications with all major brands and models of slot machines. The Company's displays primarily use LEDs that can be turned on and off approximately 100 times per second, and can be programmed to display information in a wide variety of formats, including flashing, panning from side-to-side, odometer, pulsating, scrolling up or down, painting (each character is formed from the top down), morphing and dancing colors (each character alternates color).

Mikohn designs application software for use in connection with its progressive jackpot systems. The Company's SuperLink software package supplies a comprehensive, multi-faceted system for managing a progressive jackpot network from a central location.

The Company's Bonus Jackpot provides a random cash bonus along with the normal payout for a winning combination. Mikohn's Mystery Jackpot is a progressive system that randomly rewards patrons according to a fixed-pay schedule. The bonus is triggered when the mystery (hidden) jackpot reaches a random level within a specified range.

Mikohn also supplies a number of accessory products that allow the casino customer to operate a wider variety of progressive games, provide promotional messages, animated and graphic displays and generate additional statistical and operating information from the slot machines linked to progressive jackpot systems. Available accessories also include devices to boost electrical outputs to a large number of displays, cable and fiber-optic connectors, devices to trigger visual or aural signals when a progressive jackpot is hit and circuitry for the display of progressive jackpot amounts on the screens of video slot machines.

The Company's CasinoLink system is an integrated management system for the gaming enterprise. Operating on a Microsoft Windows NT 2000 SQL Server platform, CasinoLink provides its users with robust, highly scalable applications for accounting and auditing, administration and security, jackpot management and player marketing. CasinoLink is exceptionally well suited to fulfill the requirements of large, geographically dispersed casino operators that require multi-site capability.

Mikohn also develops and markets automated data collection systems for player tracking and accounting for table games. These products include the Company's patented TableLink technology. In 1995, the Company acquired the worldwide rights to develop, manufacture, market and distribute the technology incorporated in its TableLink system, a player tracking and data collection system for table games. This system enables the casino to recognize and reward players, and enhances game security.

The Company holds an exclusive license from International Game Technology to manufacture and distribute oversized and giant slot machines, Mini-Bertha and Colossus, respectively. These oversized and giant slot machines come in electronic video and slot-reel formats, feature many of International Game Technology's games and can be linked within a casino on a progressive network.

In the product sales segment, Mikohn's primary competitors are AC Coin & Slot Company, Aristocrat, B&D Signs, DID Signs, Egads and Young Electric Sign Company

 

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