GTECH Holdings Corporation Announces Exchange Offer for Senior Notes

GTECH Holdings Corporation Announces Exchange Offer for Senior
Notes 


WEST GREENWICH, R.I., April 20  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GTECH Holdings
Corporation (NYSE:GTK) today announced that it has commenced exchange offers
for all of its outstanding 4.50% Senior Notes due 2009, and all of its
outstanding 5.25% Senior Notes due 2014.  Both series of notes were originally
issued in November 2004 under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. Holders
of either series of notes may exchange their notes for a new issue of notes
pursuant to an effective registration statement on Form S-4 filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission.  Terms of the new notes will be
substantially identical to the notes of the series being exchanged, except that
the transfer restrictions and registration rights applicable to the original
notes will not apply to the new notes.

The exchange offers will expire at 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, May 18, 2005,
unless extended.  Tenders of the original notes must be made on or prior to the
expiration of the applicable exchange offer, and may be withdrawn at any time
on or prior to the expiration of the applicable exchange offer.

Copies of the prospectus and other documents describing the terms of the
exchange offers, including the related transmittal materials for use in making
tenders, may be obtained from the exchange agent, SunTrust Bank, at 25 Park
Place, N.E., 24th Floor, Atlanta, Georgia 30303-2900, telephone (404) 588-
7266.

This news release is for informational purposes only, and is not an offer to
buy or the solicitation of an offer to sell any securities of GTECH Holdings
Corporation.  The exchange offers are being made only pursuant to the exchange
offer documents, including the prospectus and the letter of transmittal that
the Company is distributing to holders of the original notes and filing with
the Securities and Exchange Commission.

GTECH Holdings Corporation, a leading global information technology company
with over $1 billion in revenues and 5,300 people in over 50 countries,
provides software, networks, and professional services that power
high-performance, transaction processing solutions. The Company's core market
is the lottery industry, with a growing presence in commercial gaming
technology and financial services transaction processing. For more information
about the Company, please visit GTECH's website at http://www.gtech.com/.

  Contact:
   Robert K. Vincent
   Public Affairs
   GTECH Corporation
   401-392-7452


DATASOURCE: GTECH Holdings Corporation



CONTACT: Robert K. Vincent, Public Affairs of GTECH Corporation,

[phone]



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

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