BELLEFONTE Rutter’s has opened its 17th Video Gaming Terminal (VGT) room inside its Bellefonte location. In conjunction with Marquee by Penn, Rutter’s opened the first VGT room within a Qualified Establishment in Pennsylvania, in August 2019. This is their second VGT location opened in the last month, with their Middletown store adding VGTs this past December.
The Pennsylvania-based chain has grown their VGT business to become the largest in the state, and plans to continue adding even more VGT locations in 2021.
“We’re excited to be the first and largest chain of Qualified Establishments with VGTs in Pennsylvania,” said Scott Hartman, Rutter’s President and CEO. “Our company is always looking for ways to evolve our business, in an effort to better serve our customers. VGTs are something we plan to expand to more location in Pennsylvania to satisfy customer needs.”
Background
The Directive on representative actions for the protection of
the collective interests of consumers (2020/1828) (Directive) was
published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJ) on 4
December 2020. It enters into force on 24 December 2020. EU
member states have until 25 December 2022 to transpose the
Directive with a further six months to apply it, meaning that
widespread collective redress procedures should be available after
25 June 2023. The Directive was presented in April 2018 by the
European Commission and is part of the EU s New Deal for
Consumers.
The Directive effectively introduces a right of collective
redress across the EU, which we previously reported on here. Once Ireland transposes the Directive,