I think that our continued survival in a land of the giants over the last five years has proved that strategy works. |
If you look at our corporate office, it's not necessarily stronger than what you might find at the larger carriers, but I honestly don't think that the regional marketing vice presidents at the big companies would be able to cut it on our local teams because our local management people have way more decision-making authority. |
In South Carolina they use metal wands. They give you a Breathalyzer and they take a metal wand and they go over you. |
The rough cut in consolidation has probably occurred by now, but the new industry trend affecting competition is the wireless device evolving into the third or fourth screen for a lot of consumers. But the content they will want in each market will be different. What they want in the Caribbean will be different than what they want in the U.S. [In mobile gaming], it could be dominoes versus poker. But we're a company that is leveraged in that way, and we plan to deliver. |
To their credit, neither candidate said anything that would damage his campaign, and neither bit his opponent. |
We have talented local management in the marketplace [in the Caribbean] who are making those kinds of decisions, rather than being told by someone in a distant U.S. city how to run the market. |
We've had quite a run in the Caribbean. |