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In response to a request for a comment from the company, Ms. Susan Cartwright, Vice President of Corporate Communications of International Game Technology, provided the following statement to Mr. Howard Stutz of the Las Vegas Review-Journal on February 7, 2013, excerpts of which were published in an article by Mr. Stutz later that day.

 

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“The IGT Board and management team are always open to the views of shareholders who share our goal of enhancing value. The IGT Board continually evaluates the Company’s capital allocation strategy, and it has carefully considered a number of different mechanisms to return capital to shareholders. In fiscal 2012 alone, IGT returned $545 million in cash to shareholders in the form of dividends and share repurchases, and the Company has approximately $600 million remaining under its share repurchase program.”