BNET Industries

Gaming Partners International Corp.

(GPIC) is in the Manufacturing Industry

Market Cap:$43.7M
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$60.5M
  • Public
  • US
Dow Jones Description

Gaming Partners International Corporation, abbreviated GPI Corp, is the result of the merger of Bourgogne et Grasset, The Bud Jones Company and Paul-Son Gaming Supplies, Inc under the leadership of B&G. Gaming Partners International Corporation, previously known as Paul-Son Gaming Supplies Corporation has their head office in Las Vegas. At the same time, the two subsidiaries, Paul-Son Gaming Supplies, Inc. and Bourgogne et Grasset have become respectively Gaming Partners International USA, abbreviated GPI, USA and Gaming Partners International, SAS, abbreviated GPI, SAS. The group concentrates on products that are very sensitive to casinos, particularly chips and plaques but also dice, wheels, cards and associated products such as layouts and gaming tables. GPI is the developer and the manufacturer of these products and generally does direct sales to legal casinos all over the world. GPI is the casinos partner and advises its client on the best choices to make to ensure security, reliability and quality.

Executive Assistant To CEO
Angeline Simon
Number of Employees 685
Contact Information

1700 S Industrial Rd

Las Vegas, Nevada 89102-2620

www.gpigaming.c...

(702) 384-2425

NAICS Code Game, Toy, and Children's Vehicle Manufacturing: 339932

Recent Events

  • Gaming Partners reports quarterly loss on charge

    11/12/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story

  • GPI to Showcase Its Most Extensive Range of New Products Ever at G2E Table games...

    11/09/09 - Product Announcement - View Story

  • GPI to Showcase Its Most Extensive Range of New Products Ever at G2E Table games...

    11/09/09 - Product Announcement - View Story

  • GPI to Showcase Its Most Extensive Range of New Products Ever at G2E

    11/09/09 - Product Announcement - View Story

  • Casino Industry Insider news bites for Aug. 18, 2009

    8/18/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story

  • First Friday a celebration of art, community

    8/12/09 - Mgmt. Change Leaving - President - View Story

  • GPI to Showcase Exciting New RFID Technology, Furniture, and Playing Card Products at G2E Asia

    6/13/09 - Product Announcement - View Story

Decision Makers

Name (plus bio) Position
Angeline Simon Executive Assistant To CEO
Gay A. Nordfelt Executive Assistant To the CEO
Gerard Charlier CEO & President
David W. Grimes Chief Financial Officer
Gregory Gronau COO & Executive Vice President
Laura McAllister Cox Chief Legal and Gaming Compliance Officer
Remi Nicolas Cfo
Christophe Gassies General Services Manager
Christophe Leparoux International Sales & Marketing Manager
Emmanuel Gelinotte Rfid Technology Products Manager
Jean-Claude Sondaz Jeton and Plaque Manager
Justin Woodard Area Sales Manager
Laurent Gaubout Group Marketing Manager
Lionel Cazalis Area Sales Manager for the U.K.
Nicolas Dienot Area Manager, Sales, Latin America
Pat Butrico Area Sales Manager
Pierre Chapet Value Chips Production Manager
Dawn Gaumer Sales Assistant
Jo-Ann Barrett Sales Assistant
Martin A. Berkowitz Consultant
Charles R. Henry Director
Eric P. Endy Director
Robert J. Kelly Committee Member

Board of Directors

Name (plus bio) Position
Alain Thieffry Chairman
Elisabeth Carrette Chairperson of the Board
Paul S. Dennis Board of Directors

Organization Position Status
Gaming Partners International Corporation Executive Assistant To CEO Current

Organization Position Status
Gaming Partners International Corporation Executive Assistant To the CEO Current
Gaming Partners International Corporation Secretary Current
Weber State University Undergraduate Degree In English Former

Gerard P. Charlier, 70, has been a director and our President and Chief Executive Officer since September 2002. Mr. Charlier served as our Secretary from March 2003 until December 2006 and as our interim Chief Financial Officer from August 2006 to December 2006. Mr. Charlier has been President and Chief Executive Officer of GPI SAS since 1994 and President and Chief Executive Officer of the former Bud Jones Company from 2000 to 2002, when it merged into Gaming Partners International USA, Inc. Mr. Charlier worked from 1965 to 1968 for The Cincinnati Milling Machine in Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Charlier worked for Booz Allen & Hamilton in London and Paris in 1968 and 1969. He then joined Peat Marwick Mitchell Management Consulting (now KPMG) in Paris in 1969 where he became Partner in 1975 and acted as Partner in Charge of the German Management Consulting Department from 1978 to 1982. From 1982 to 1985, Mr. Charlier served as Vice President of International Development of Dexi International, a French company specializing in the manufacture of cosmetic products distributed by party plans. From 1985 to 1988 and again from 1991 to 1994, Mr. Charlier was an independent management consultant for G.C. Management, a firm that he owned. Between 1988 and 1991, Mr. Charlier served as the General Manager in France of Arthur D. Little, a management consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr. Charlier holds a mechanical engineering degree from Ecole Nationale d'Arts et Métiers in Paris (1962), a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, California (1963) and a Master of Business Administration from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France (1968).

Organization Position Status
Gaming Partners International Corporation CEO & President Current
Gaming Partners International Corporation Board of Directors Current
Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. Former
Stanford University M.S. In Electrical Engineering Former
California Inc M.S. In Electrical Engineering Former
INSEAD MBA Former

Organization Position Status
Gaming Partners International Corporation Chief Financial Officer Current
WFI Industries Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Former
WFI Industries Ltd. President Former
WFI Industries Ltd. Chief Financial Officer Former
Patton Electric, Inc Chief Financial Officer Former
Patton Electric, Inc Treasurer Former
University of Illinois Master of Accounting Science Degree Former
University of Illinois Bachelor of Science Degree In Accountancy Former

Organization Position Status
Gaming Partners International Corporation COO & Executive Vice President Current

Laura McAllister Cox, an attorney at law licensed to practice in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, has been Chief Legal and Gaming Compliance Officer for the Company since December 2003. Previously, Ms. McAllister Cox was an attorney for 16 years with the Atlantic City law firm of Cooper Levenson April Niedelman & Wagenheim, P.A. and became a partner of the firm in 1996. A member of the Cooper Levenson Casino Law Department, Ms. McAllister Cox represented casino operators, gaming manufacturers and distributors, and casino employees in all aspects of regulatory, licensing and litigation matters. As part of her practice, Ms. McAllister Cox handled gaming regulatory matters for GPI SAS since 1997, for the former Bud Jones Company since 2000 and for GPIC since 2002. Ms. McAllister Cox holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Urban Studies from the University of Tennessee (1980) and a Juris Doctorate from Rutgers University School of Law (1987).

Organization Position Status
Gaming Partners International Corporation Chief Legal and Gaming Compliance Officer Current
Gaming Partners International Corporation Gaming Compliance Officer Former

Organization Position Status
Gaming Partners International Corporation Cfo Current

Organization Position Status
Gaming Partners International Corporation General Services Manager Current

Organization Position Status
Gaming Partners International Corporation International Sales & Marketing Manager Current

Organization Position Status
Gaming Partners International Corporation Rfid Technology Products Manager Current

Organization Position Status
Gaming Partners International Corporation Jeton and Plaque Manager Current

Organization Position Status
Gaming Partners International Corporation Area Sales Manager Current

Organization Position Status
Gaming Partners International Corporation Group Marketing Manager Current

Organization Position Status
Gaming Partners International Corporation Area Sales Manager for the U.K. Current

Organization Position Status
Gaming Partners International Corporation Area Manager, Sales, Latin America Current

Organization Position Status
Gaming Partners International Corporation Area Sales Manager Current

Organization Position Status
Gaming Partners International Corporation Value Chips Production Manager Current

Organization Position Status
Gaming Partners International Corporation Sales Assistant Current

Organization Position Status
Gaming Partners International Corporation Sales Assistant Current

Martin A. Berkowitz, 60, has been a director since August 2007. He is currently the Chief Financial Officer of Virtual Coaching, LLC, a technology-enabled service company based in New York City. From 2007 to 2008, Mr. Berkowitz was Chief Financial Officer of ChildNet, Inc, a community-based non-profit corporation that administers foster care and adoptive services for Broward County, Florida. From 2006 to 2007, he was a consultant in the areas of financial management and business development. He was Chief Financial Officer for the Miami-Dade County Public Schools in 2005 and 2006. From 2002 to 2004, Mr. Berkowitz held the positions of Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, then President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Veterans Business Development Corporation. He retired as Senior Vice President from Prudential Financial in 2000 following a twenty-five year career where he served as Comptroller of the individual insurance unit, Chief Financial Officer of the investment management business unit, and the Corporate Comptroller. He played a major role in the conversion of Prudential from a mutual insurance company to a public shareholder-owned company. Mr. Berkowitz earned his Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1970 and his Master of Business Administration from St. John's University in 1975. He has attended executive programs at the University of Michigan, Stanford University and Harvard University.

Organization Position Status
Gaming Partners International Corporation Consultant Current
Gaming Partners International Corporation Director Current
St. John's University Master of Business Administration Former

Alain Thieffry, 53, has been a director since September 2002. Mr. Thieffry has served as President of the Executive Board of Holding Wilson, S.A. since February 2002. He has been an executive officer of Holding Wilson, S.A. since 1984. Since 2003, Mr. Thieffry has also served as Chief Executive Officer of DeRoche, S.A., wholly-owned subsidiary of Holding Wilson, S.A. Mr. Thieffry holds Masters of Law and Business Administration and the equivalent of a CPA license in France.

Organization Position Status
Gaming Partners International Corporation Chairman Current
Gaming Partners International Corporation Committee Member Current
Gaming Partners International Corporation Director Former

Elisabeth Carrette, 64, has been a director since January 2005. Mrs. Carrette is the President of the Supervisory Board of Holding Wilson, S.A., a privately-held French company that through its affiliates engages in consulting and food distribution. Holding Wilson, S.A. is the principal stockholder of the Company. For more than two decades, Mrs. Carrette has served on both the Executive and Supervisory Boards of Holding Wilson, S.A. and helped define the strategy of the group.

Organization Position Status
Gaming Partners International Corporation Chairperson of the Board Current
Gaming Partners International Corporation Board of Directors Former

Charles R. Henry, 71, has been a director since June 2006. Mr. Henry is a retired two-star general, with 41 years of leadership experience, a distinguished military career and an advanced law degree. He is currently the President of CRH, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in defense acquisition issues. From 2005 to 2007, he was the Chief Operating Officer and, from 1994 to 2007, a board member of CEG Company in Rico Rica, Arizona, a leading producer of wiring harnesses for military vehicles. Prior to that, he was a consultant in Washington D.C. for various companies on defense issues. In 2001, he was also appointed Chief Executive Officer and President of the National Veterans Business Development Corporation, part of Public Law 106-50, which was created by Congress. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Henry served as President of LFR Levine Fricke, an environmental management and consulting firm, which is an affiliate of Holding Wilson, S.A., our principal stockholder. Mr. Henry holds an undergraduate degree in economics from Middle Tennessee State University; he is a graduate of the United States Army War College and the United States Army Command and General Staff College; he holds a J.D. and a L.L.M. degree from Woodrow Wilson Law School.

Organization Position Status
Gaming Partners International Corporation Director Current
Middle Tennessee State University Undergraduate Degree In Economics Former

Eric P. Endy, 54, has been a director since our inception in 1993. Mr. Endy was our Executive Vice President from September 2002 to March 2003, and served as a consultant to us from April 2003 to September 2007. He served as our Secretary from May 1984 to March 2003, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer from November 1998 to September 2002, President from January 1994 to September 2002 and Treasurer from July 2001 to September 2002. From May 1998 to July 1998, Mr. Endy was our Treasurer and from January 1994 to July 1995, Mr. Endy was our Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Endy was Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of the former Paul-Son Gaming Supplies from November 1998 to September 2002, and Executive Vice President and General Manager of the former Paul-Son Gaming Supplies from July 1990 to November 1998. Mr. Endy received a Master of Arts from California State University-Los Angeles in 1981 and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas in 2007.

Organization Position Status
Gaming Partners International Corporation Director Current

Organization Position Status
Gaming Partners International Corporation Board of Directors Current

Robert J. Kelly, 53, has been a director since February 2006. Mr. Kelly received a Master in Business Administration from Harvard in 1986 and an engineering degree from Princeton in 1977. Since 2000, Mr. Kelly has been the founder, patent holder and primary stockholder of EarthSource Inc., Raynham, Massachusetts, a waste-water treatment plant. He is also a civil engineer and responsible for designing the EarthSource process and managing its operations. From 1994 to 2000, Mr. Kelly worked with LFR, Inc., an environmental engineering company and affiliate of Holding Wilson, S.A., our principal stockholder. Prior to 1994, Mr. Kelly worked as a Division Manager for OHM Corporation, a publicly-traded company that provides technology-based, on-site hazardous waste remediation environmental services, and as a Field Service Manager at IT Corporation, a publicly-traded company in the environmental engineering business, providing environmental consulting, engineering and construction and remediation services.

Organization Position Status
Gaming Partners International Corporation Committee Member Current
Gaming Partners International Corporation Director Former
Harvard University MBA Former
Princeton University Degree Former

Executive News

  • Casino Industry Insider news bites for Aug. 18, 2009

    Gaming Today - 8/18/09 - View Story

  • Gaming Partners International Reports Financial Results for the Second Quarter and...

    Reuters - 8/13/09 - View Story

  • Gaming Partners International Reports Financial Results for the Second Quarter and Six Months of 2009

    PR Newswire via Yahoo! - 8/13/09 - View Story

  • Artist Danielle Kelly: Like Vegas, always evolving

    Las Vegas Sun - 8/12/09 - View Story

  • Gretchen Wilson clearly celebrates her redneck roots

    Las Vegas Sun - 8/12/09 - View Story

  • First Friday a celebration of art, community

    Las Vegas Sun - 8/12/09 - View Story

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    Las Vegas Sun - 8/12/09 - View Story

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    Las Vegas Sun - 8/12/09 - View Story

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    Las Vegas Sun - 8/12/09 - View Story

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    Las Vegas Sun - 8/12/09 - View Story

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    Las Vegas Sun - 8/12/09 - View Story

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    Las Vegas Sun - 8/12/09 - View Story

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    Las Vegas Sun - 8/12/09 - View Story

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    Las Vegas Sun - 8/12/09 - View Story

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    Las Vegas Sun - 8/12/09 - View Story

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    Las Vegas Sun - 8/12/09 - View Story

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    Las Vegas Sun - 8/12/09 - View Story

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    Las Vegas Sun - 8/12/09 - View Story

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    Las Vegas Sun - 8/12/09 - View Story

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     GPIC $5.40 +0.30 (5.88% )
Average Volume 8,517
Shares Outstanding 8.10M
Market Cap 43.8M
Year High 7.78
Year Low 4.51
Earnings Per Share 0.14
P/E Ratio 38.57
Dividend N/A
Yield N/A
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