程阳：Shanghai Welfare Lottery Awards Contracts to Scientific Games

NEW YORK – (PRESS RELEASE) -- Scientific Games Corporation (Nasdaq: SGMS) announced that the Shanghai Welfare Lottery Issuing Center (SWLIC) has awarded Scientific Games two contracts with a combined valued of $40 million over ten years. Under the new online lottery agreement, Scientific Games will maintain SWLIC's online lottery software and supply 4,000 new online lottery terminals. Under the first agreement, Scientific Games will supply keno game software and provide 1,000 keno terminals.

Of the 4,000 online lottery terminals Scientific Games is providing under the second agreement, 2,100 represent an expansion of the current network while the remaining 1,900 terminals will upgrade older machines. The 1,000 keno terminals will be installed at new retailers who sell only keno games. Both contracts commence July 1, 2005.

"We are very pleased to win this significant new business from SWLIC. It is a solid endorsement of the high quality of services and equipment we endeavor to deliver to all of our customers," said Lorne Weil, chairman and CEO of Scientific Games Corporation. "We believe that the SWLIC will see a substantial sales increase over the next few years with the additional online terminals and with the continuation of our program of best practices in close partnership with the Lottery."

In calendar 2004, the SWLIC generated approximately $120 million in online lottery sales.