WMS Industries Inc.

Public Company, Headquarters Location
800 S Northpoint Blvd., Waukegan, IL 60085-8211, United States
(847)785-3000, (847)785-3058 fax, http://www.wms.com

Primary SIC: Manufacturing Industries, Not Elsewhere Classified, Primary NAICS: All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing
Description: WMS Industries Inc. was incorporated in Delaware on November 20, 1974 under the name Williams Electronics, Inc. WMS succeeded to the amusement game business that had been conducted for almost 30 years prior to 1974 by its predecessors and entered the gaming machine market beginning in the 1990s. The company is a global provider of gaming products to the legalized gaming industry. WMS designs and manufactures gaming machines and video lottery terminals, and then either sells the products outright or leases them. The company also derives revenue from the sale of parts, conversion kits, amusement-with-prize gaming machines, equipment manufactured under original equipment manufacturing agreements, gaming related systems for smaller international casinos and from licensing gaming themes and other intellectual property to third parties. The company's primary manufacturing facility is located in the United States, with development or distribution offices in the United States, Argentina, Australia, China, Italy, South Africa, Spain and the United Kingdom. Through its subsidiary, Orion Financement Company, WMS has a manufacturing, development and distribution office in The Netherlands. In fiscal 2008, the company added a development and distribution office in Austria with its acquisition of Systems in Progress GmbH.Manufacturing: Video lottery terminals and mechanical reel spinning gaming machines.