Gaming Awards
FIVE MiGEA PRESTIGIOUS AWARDS HONOURED MALTCO LOTTERIES

The fifth edition of Malta’s Excellence Gaming Awards took place on Friday night, 13th November at the Intercontinental Hotel. Maltco Lotteries has been awarded with five prestigious awards for “Best Industry’s Contributor”, “Best CSR Contributor” “Best Workplace in Malta” and “Best CEO of the Year”. Furthermore, the Gaming industry panel of jurors the selected and presented the most prestigious award of the MiGEA event – “Lifetime Achievement Award” to Maltco’s CEO for his longstanding and continuous contribution to the gaming industry.
Maltco Lotteries’ CEO Mr. Vasileios Kasiotakis exclaimed that he was emotional, overjoyed and most appreciative about the recognition of the work performed by Maltco’s Teams that resulted in winning the five Awards. “I feel honoured that Maltco’s continuous care for its Agents, its Employees and the Maltese Players has been distinguished with these prominent Gaming Awards. Our Team’s drive, imaginative work and commitment towards our industry has been recognised by Gaming Industry professionals. This is a great achievement for the company and for our talented team.”
Mr. Kasiotakis concluded “for the past 16 years, Maltco Lotteries has been continuously striving to be at the leading position, both as an employer and through its way of operating, serving and entertaining. Our actions are built the company’s core values which are Care, Drive, Trust and Imagination!”
The company endeavors to put players first by offering best in class service and products within a responsible, transparent, accountable, and secure gaming environment.
Mr. David Antony Gatt, Maltco’s CCO was delighted with the five awards and commented that “Maltco is proud to continue its Retail Transformation whilst also elevating the experience of its players to a digital one. It has leveraged INTRALOT’s innovative technology and advanced services, ensuring security, trustworthiness, transparency, and a superior gaming experience. Over the years, the company has introduced many different gaming verticals to its portfolio with the latest addition being the launch of Maltco’s iLottery.”
Ms Caroline Attard, Maltco’s Head of Marketing and Corporate Communications was thrilled and added that “the new Maltco iLottery platform, offers a convenient channel for local players to play Malta’s favourite games online. The company has an exceptional Corporate Social Responsibility track record whereby it is consistently contributing to Malta’s society, culture and community’s well-being”.
Gaming Awards
Zitro Shortlisted for the Global Gaming Awards London 2021

Players’ favourite 88 Link Wild Duels on the super-slim Allure cabinet, one of Zitro’s most successful progressive multigame, has received the desired nomination in the category of “Best Casino Product”, while Zitro as a corporation, being the fastest growing company of the gaming industry, has been nominated as “Best Casino Supplier”.
Johnny Ortiz, Founder of Zitro, commented that: “We are thrilled to receive these two nominations that recognizes not only the outstanding quality of our products, but also that of our people, and I would like to thank the Global Gaming Awards for this. Hard work always pays off and while we still harvest the success of our incredible progressive multigames such as 88 Link or Bashiba Link, to name just two of them, we already have a whole new arsenal of revolutionary video slots and bingo products ready, that will hit the market very soon. Especially in these challenging times, we firmly believe that delivering impeccable high-performing products is the best way of supporting the operators, and the gaming industry as a whole, to help accelerate the economic recovery, and we definitely have many of them in our ever-expanding product library.”
Gaming Awards
Helio Gaming received the Gaming Concept Specialist of the Year Award

The MGA-licensed lottery games supplier Helio Gaming has been awarded Gaming Concept Specialist of the Year in the Corporate LiveWire Innovation & Excellence Awards 2021.
Ninety thousand businesses and corporate professionals were invited to nominate companies based on service, innovation, experience, and sustainability amongst other criteria.
This is a great start to 2021 for Helio Gaming which is in the process of announcing new partnerships, new games developments and concepts.
It also marks their third award win in the past four months. Innovation and adaptability are the hallmarks of Helio Gaming’s success in an increasingly competitive sector.
Helio’ fully customisable games put the modern lottery player at the forefront of their design. Operators are seeing the benefits of this exciting vertical more and more, especially for upsell, cross-sell and retention strategies.
CEO Keith Galea commented on this latest achievement:
‘I am humbled, and it is an honour to be recognised again for the great work that the team at Helio is doing. We work hand-in-hand with our partners to listen to their needs and bring the best solutions for them, therefore it is of great satisfaction to be recognised with such an award.’
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LeoVegas awarded Casino Operator of the Year

LeoVegas is the Casino Operator of the Year. Accepting the award, Matthew Jakes, Casino Portfolio Specialist at LeoVegas said:
“It is fantastic to receive this award, not just because everybody wants the prestige of being operator of the year, but it is really showing how much work we have, as a collective as Team Leo, put in during what has been an exceptional year.”
“Our commitment to innovation and providing the greatest and safest gaming experience for our players is something we are very much proud of. It seems a long time ago that we brought our own Branded Megaways and Multiplay to life and most recently it is the massive appeal of LeoJackpot, we really enjoy being King of Casino and we equally appreciate such recognition today”
LeoVegas was named Casino Operator of the Year at the SBC Awards 2020. TV presenter Kirsty Gallacher, Vinnie Jones actor and former professional footballer and goalkeeper legend Petr Cech hosted the event, which was held virtually this time. The annual SBC Awards recognise the achievements of operators and affiliates in sports, betting and igaming.
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