May: Loto-Québec inaugurates Espace
Création (a venue for exhibits and activities dedicated to
promoting the visual arts, located on the ground floor at Loto-Québec’s
Montréal head office) with a Gilles Carle tribute exhibition.
Technologies Nter celebrates its fifth anniversary.
July 26: A new subsidiary, the Société
des salons de jeux du Québec, is created.
October 14: Two new programs for the voluntary withdrawal of video lottery terminals were announced.
The Hilton Lac-Leamy hotel wins four awards of excellence at Hilton Hotels’ annual conference, which brings together the management of the chain’s 232 full-service hotels in North America.
Ingenio is awarded an honourable mention by the Office québécois
de la langue française (OQLF) in the Mérites du
français dans les technologies de l’information competition
for its contribution to the advancement of the French language in information
technologies with its multimedia lottery game Eldorado.
Québec’s advertising industry honours the 6/49’s "Always be nice" ad campaign with two Coq d’or and two Créa awards. The ad also earned a Silver Cassies in a competition hosted by the Canadian advertising industry.
2006
The weekly edition of La
Poule aux œufs d'or surpassed the $100 million mark in
prizes paid out on TV since the game was introduced in 1993.
The Hilton
Lac-Leamy Hotel wins again Best Overall Performance in
North America (commercial category) awarded at Hilton Corporation’s
annual convention.
Fairmont
Le Manoir Richelieu and Le
Charlevoix restaurant are awarded the Four Diamond Rating by the Canadian
Automobile Association and the American Automobile Association (CAA-AAA).
February:The Fondation
Mise sur toi launches an important awareness campaign focused
on excessive gaming.
March 30: Loto-Québec’s Casino Mundial susidiary officially
became shareholder in the French Moliflor Loisirs group, the third largest
casino operator in France.
April 28: A Québecer walked away with a $30 million Super
7 jackpot, thus becoming the biggest winner in the history of Loto-Québec.
June 27:Ingenio and Bally Technologies annonced that they have formed
a long-term strategic alliance.
November 2: The Québec cabinet grants Loto-Québec the authority to open gaming centres in the province. This move represented a new stage in the implementation of Loto-Québec’s 2004-2007 Development Plan.
December: Loto-Québec’s buildings earn the Go GreenTM (named BOMA BESt certification since 2008) designation awarded by the Québec branch of the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA Québec).