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What: Scratch-and-win ticket and lottery infrastructure specialist Scientific Games
So what: At the request of the board, chairman Lorne Weil will return to the CEO position he held from 1992 to 2008, while CEO Michael Chambrello will assume a new role as the head of Scientific Games' Asia-Pacific region. The move, according to Weil, was made "to devote significantly more senior management time and personnel to further developing [the company's] China business."
Now what: Scientific Games has struggled with a lack of focus in recent years, but the personnel changes seem like a step in the right direction. While the company's casino system business continues to face increasingly tough competition from the likes of International Game Technology
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