Brightstar Lottery PLC
Brightstar Lottery Spotlights Achievements in 2025 Sustainability Report
Brightstar Lottery PLC announced the release of its 2025 Sustainability Report, detailing the Company’s achievements and progress across key sustainability initiatives throughout the year.
“Brightstar Lottery’s 2025 Sustainability Report demonstrates our continued commitment to advancing lotteries through innovative solutions, trusted partnerships, and responsible business practices that help build a sustainable future. Our latest report showcases the progress we made in our first year as a pure-play lottery company, and how sustainability is incorporated into our strategy and the way we seek to create value for our stakeholders. The achievements highlighted are a testament to the dedication of our employees around the world, whose expertise and collaboration help turn our sustainability ambitions into meaningful results,” said Vince Sadusky, CEO of Brightstar.
Sample highlights of the 2025 report, aligned with Brightstar’s three elements of sustainability, include:
• Empowering Our People: Brightstar fosters a culture that values individuals, recognises the unique contributions and perspectives of every person and attracts and retains the talent of tomorrow. In 2025, among other achievements, Brightstar:
Received the Top Employer certification for its U.S. and Italy operations.
Introduced Brightstar’s Digital Journey, a strategic learning initiative designed to accelerate the Company’s digital evolution through targeted trainings for employees of all levels with a focus on the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI).
• Collaborating with Partners: From suppliers to business partners to the communities it serves, Brightstar believes in growing together responsibly and transparently, and building relationships that are trustworthy, ethical and mutually beneficial. In 2025, among other achievements, Brightstar:
Hosted, in collaboration with the Indiana Council on Problem Gambling and East Carolina University’s Gambling Research & Policy Initiative, the Emerging Adults Summit which brought together experts, advocates and industry stakeholders from across the US and Canada to share insights and strategies focused on gambling behaviours among emerging adults.
Organised 48 global volunteer events in 10 locations around the world, in which more than 1000 employees participated. Matching gifts donations were made to 95 charitable organisations, and the Company supported 15 new charitable events.
• Preserving the Planet: To help safeguard the environment and its resources, Brightstar is on a journey to support efforts to protect the climate, preserve natural resources and advance circularity. In 2025, among other achievements, Brightstar:
Introduced an AI-powered route optimisation tool to support automated field service technician dispatching that, based on internal evaluations, contributed to reducing travel distance and fuel consumption across selected operations, while designed to enhance overall operational efficiency.
Integrated eco-design principles into various product development processes, including the new Retailer Pro S2 lottery terminal. According to an assessment, eco design assisted with the optimisation of material use, supported improvements in energy performance and helped address key environmental impacts across product lifecycles.
Certain sustainability-related statements in the release are based on internal estimates, assumptions and methodologies that are evolving and may differ from those used by other companies or future reporting periods.
The 2025 Sustainability Report is available online at brightstarlottery.com.
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Brian Bennett
Brightstar Lottery Signs Seven-Year Contract Extension with Washington’s Lottery
Brightstar Lottery PLC announced that its subsidiary, Brightstar Global Solutions Corporation, has signed a seven-year contract extension with Washington’s Lottery, under which Brightstar will provide the Lottery with an upgraded gaming system and deploy thousands of new lottery terminals, self-service vending machines and other equipment to lottery retailers in the state of Washington. Brightstar has served as the primary lottery technology supplier to Washington’s Lottery since 1996 and this agreement extends the contract through June 30, 2036.
Key deliverables over the course of the seven-year agreement include:
• 2200 GameTouch28 vending machines. The GameTouch28 is a high-volume self-service lottery solution designed for retailers to enhance customer experience and boost efficiency, featuring a 42-inch multimedia touch display that offers an intuitive and seamless player interface and 28 ticket bins with a full suite of instant tickets to reduce congestion at a retailer’s point-of-sale and optimize player flow.
• 100 GameTouch20 vending machines. The GameTouch20 offers all the convenience of the GameTouch 28 in a streamlined, compact form.
• 3700 Retailer Pro S2 lottery terminals, ticket checkers, and player-facing digital marketing displays. The Pro S2 is a next-generation lottery terminal that offers high performance, reliability, and a variety of options and peripherals to meet the current and future needs of lotteries and retailers.
• Upgrading the Lottery’s central system with Brightstar’s newest commercially available gaming system.
“For 30 years, Brightstar has helped Washington’s Lottery stay at the forefront of providing lottery retailers and players with convenient and innovative lottery experiences, including self-service and cashless solutions. We look forward to continuing our long-term partnership through the deployment of Brightstar’s latest lottery technology over the next ten years,” said Brian Bennett, Washington’s Lottery Director.
“Brightstar is proud to continue our three-decade partnership with Washington’s Lottery. The innovative system solutions and retail equipment we’ll deliver to Washington’s Lottery under this agreement will power the Lottery’s growth, provide entertaining and responsible experiences for its players, and support the funds raised by the Lottery for educational and other good causes across Washington,” said Scott Gunn, Brightstar Chief Operating Officer North America Lottery.
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