Digital growth drives up revenue and profit at Aristocrat in H1
Aristocrat Technologies has cited growth across its digital businesses as one of the main reasons behind a year-on-year increase in revenue and profit during the first half of the year.
The gambling machines and digital games provider posted normalised operating revenue AU$2.105bn (£1.15bn/€1.30bn/US$1.45bn),for the six months to 31 March 2019, 29.8% up on AU$1.62bn in the corresponding period last year.
Digital growth was up 6.9% year-on-year to US$586.8m during the period, which the provider put down to the success of its Product Madness arm and the full-period benefit of its acquired Plarium and Big Fish businesses.
Americas revenue was up 18.1% to US$682.7m...