Merkur Group, formerly the Gauselmann Group, is a family-owned German gaming business founded in 1957 by Paul Gauselmann and headquartered in Espelkamp, North Rhine-Westphalia. It began as a one-man sideline installing jukeboxes and grew into one of the largest gaming groups in Europe, employing around 11,000 people. The group is unusual in spanning both sides of the industry. It develops and manufactures gaming machines under the Merkur brand, and it also operates: a national chain of gaming arcades, sports betting, online gaming and casinos. That combination gives it a position in the German market that neither a pure supplier nor a pure operator holds, and it is a central player in the arcade and amusement-with-prizes sector that the German states regulate separately from the online regime.
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Germany's Gauselmann group has agreed terms to take control of the Le Stelsia casino group and, with it, listed Société Française de Casinos. The price it has put on the listed shares says more about the deal than the headline value does.
In a major move that signals its return to the North American market, German gaming powerhouse Merkur Group has finalised its acquisition of US-based slot