Jackpot Enterprises, Inc. was an American gambling machine route operator and casino operator from 1980 to the late 1990s, and had its common stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) with the one-letter ticker symbol "J" from 1987 to 2002. It changed its business focus to become a dot-com company as J Net Enterprises, Inc. during the dot-com bubble, and later became Epoch Holding Corporation, owning an investment management firm.
History
Gambling operations
Jackpot Enterprises was incorporated in Nevada in June 1980 to take over two existing route operators, Cardivan Company and Corral United, Inc. From 1980 to 1995 it also came to acquire majority ownership of Corral Coin, Inc. and Corral Country Coin, Inc.[1]
Jackpot acquired the Owl Club in Battle Mountain on July 1, 1990, and the Nugget in downtown Reno on June 30, 1995.[1] It began its operation of the casino at Debbie Reynolds' Hollywood Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on June 28, 1993, and of the Pony Express Casino at the Holiday Inn Express motel in Jackpot, Nevada on January 26, 1995.[1]
Jackpot and President Riverboat Casinos operated a joint dockside casino at Mhoon Landing, Mississippi in 1993 and 1994, but closed it on July 8, 1994. Jackpot also operated casinos in Deadwood, South Dakota, but closed them on June 30, 1995.[1]
External links
References
- SEC Accession No. 0000351903-95-000016. Jackpot Enterprises, Inc. Form 10-K - Annual report [Section 13 and 15(d), not S-K Item 405] EDGAR, Securities and Exchange Commission, retrieved 2019-01-26^
- Christina Binkley. Jackpot Enterprises Plans Shift To the Internet From Gambling The Wall Street Journal, March 8, 2000, retrieved 2019-01-27^
- Michael Brick. Jackpot Enterprises Rolls the Dice With Internet Venture