WMS Industries Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and distribution of games, video and mechanical reel-spinning gaming machines, and video lottery terminals (VLTs) for the legalized gaming industry worldwide. The company provides video gaming machines and mechanical reel gaming machines under the Bluebird, Bluebird2, Bluebird xD, Twinstar, and Helios brands. It also sells replacement parts; conversion kits, including game, hardware, or operating system conversions; and used gaming machines. In addition, the company licenses its gaming themes and other intellectual property to third parties; and leases gaming machines and VLTs to casinos and other licensed gaming machine operators. Further, it engages in gaming operations activities that include providing participation games, such as wide-area progressive participation games under the MONOPOLY GRAND HOTEL, MONOPOLY Big Event, MONOPOLY Around the Globe, THE WIZARD OF OZ, THE PRICE IS RIGHT, TIME MACHINE, and Reel em In Compete To Win brand names; local-area progressive participation games under the Jackpot Party Progressive, Life of Luxury Progressive, Hot Hot Super Jackpot Progressive, Goldfish Race for the Gold, Money to Burn Multiplying Progressive, and HAPPY DAYS; stand-alone participation games under the MONOPOLY and PRESS YOUR LUCK brands; casino-owned daily fee games; leased for-sale games; and Class II and centrally determined systems, as well as networked and online gaming services. The company, formerly known as Williams Electronics, Inc., was founded in 1943 and is headquartered in Waukegan, Illinois.

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