Argosy Gaming Company Announces Promotion of Michele Wimpling to Vice President of Development

Argosy Gaming Company Announces Promotion of Michele Wimpling to
Vice President of Development 


ALTON, Ill., July 23  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Argosy Gaming Company
(NYSE:AGY) today announced the appointment of Michele Wimpling as Vice
President of Development.  In her new role, Ms. Wimpling will report directly
to Richard J. Glasier, Argosy's President and Chief Executive Officer.

Wimpling has 20 years of diverse development experience, with broad real estate
finance background in the areas of transactions, asset management and business
development.  She joined Argosy in 2003 following 18 months with a professional
financial consulting firm in Phoenix, Arizona.

From 1997 to 2001, Wimpling was a Principal and Senior Vice President of
Acquisitions and Business Development with Olympus Real Estate Corporation, a
diversified real estate private equity firm based in Dallas Texas.  Her roles
included responsibilities for hotel and resort acquisitions, asset management,
financing and dispositions and later within the hotel and resort management
business was responsible for the growth of the company through acquisitions and
third-party management contracts.

"Michele has been an important part of our development activities and now, in
her new role as head of our development team, will contribute to Argosy on a
higher level," said Richard J. Glasier, President and Chief Executive Officer
of Argosy Gaming Company.

Wimpling takes over the development department following the departure of Joy
Berry, who is returning to a senior development position in the hotel industry.
 Wimpling received an undergraduate degree from New Mexico State University and
a certificate in international management from Thunderbird University.  She
resides in Clayton, Missouri.

Argosy Gaming Company is a leading owner and operator of regional casinos and
related entertainment and hotel facilities in the midwestern and southern
United States. Argosy owns and operates the Alton Belle Casino in Alton,
Illinois, serving the St. Louis metropolitan market; the Argosy Casino
Riverside in Missouri, serving the greater Kansas City metropolitan market; the
Argosy Casino Baton Rouge in Louisiana; the Argosy Casino Sioux City in Iowa;
the Argosy Casino Lawrenceburg in Indiana, serving the Cincinnati and Dayton
metropolitan markets; and the Empress Casino Joliet in Illinois serving the
greater Chicagoland market. 

DATASOURCE: Argosy Gaming Company



CONTACT:  Jim Wise, Director of Corporate Communications of Argosy Gaming

Company, [phone]



Web site:  http://www.argosycasinos.com/ 

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