Abbiati confirms Christophe Leparoux in consulting role

In November last year, Christophe Leparoux and Gaming Partners International (GPI) parted company after an 18 year collaboration during which the Frenchman held the positions of Area Sales Manager and Director International Sales & Marketing.
During those years, Leparoux had been instrumental in transforming the company into the world’s leading casino chips supplier. As the man in charge of the Asian markets and particularly Macau, he led the company’s sales to reach a remarkable 80% market share in the region with over 90% in Macau itself.

Now on his own with his company Golden Cathay Consulting (www.goldencathayconsulting.com), he is offering consultancy services to companies eager to enter or comfort their positions on the fast-growing Asian markets. Among gaming suppliers, table games equipment supplier Abbiati from Italy hired Leparoux for a consulting role.

“Abbiati have been supplying their products, chips, plaques, jetons, together with their tables, wheels and accessories for many years both to land based casino operations and the cruise lines in Asia” declared Giorgio Abbiati, CEO. “Christophe and I have been rivals but with the mutual respect associated with true professionals, Christophe has been consulting for us for a short period of time and with his knowledge of the Asian market and the customer base he has been successful in advising us on the finalization of a number of orders, most notably with Venetian Macau Parcels V and VI for an order of 200,000 chips while another Asian customer has incremented his Plaques and Jetons banks considerably.”

Boasting a wide experience and an unparalleled understanding of the gaming
markets in Asia, Golden Cathay Consulting aims at providing high value solutions to its customers. 

“Giorgio and I have known each other for almost two decades, I have always shown great respect for the Abbiati company and family; actually it reminds me of B&G in the early years, a family-run, customer-oriented company with great products and very talented production people,” said Christophe Leparoux. “Abbiati is renowned the  world over  for its superb lines of high quality gaming furniture and its ranges of gaming chips, jetons and plaques deserved a better exposure, particularly on the Asian gaming scene.”

Concluded Giorgio Abbiati: “Golden Cathay Consulting will continue to drive our expansion in Asia, we are talking to many operators and more orders are imminent and we are very confident that Christophe’s professionalism and knowledge of the area will provide Abbiati the opportunity of becoming a major supplier of Gaming Chips and Plaques in  Asia.”