ARCHIVED  April 1, 1997

Gaming firm consolidates in Greeley

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GREELEY — One of North America’s only companies to both own casinos and manufacture gaming equipment has chosen Greeley as its primary production facility.

International Thunderbird Gaming Corp. of Vancouver, British Columbia, recently closed a manufacturing plant in Charlotte, N.C., and consolidated those operations with an existing research-and-development and manufacturing facility in Greeley. A second, smaller production facility is in Vancouver.

“It didn’t make sense for us to have three manufacturing facilities,´ said Praveen Varshney, vice president of finance for International Thunderbird in Vancouver.

The company now has 28,785 square feet in two buildings at 2123 Second Ave. in Greeley, said local plant…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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