Jon Dehler

Through fundraising efforts and donations from Fleetwood Gaming owner Jon Dehler of Billings, the school needs only $150,000 to pay off the sign.

Longtime Billings businessman Jon Dehler, owner of Fleetwood Gaming, announced that he will donate $1 million to help rebuild Cobb Field....

Jon Dehler, the owner of Fleetwood Gaming, made the announcement Tuesday behind home plate at the Billings ballpark...

In a release from Fleetwood, Jon L. Dehler, President of Fleetwood Gaming, Inc., said, "Fleetwood's video gaming route operation historically offered multiple product lines to its customers, but going forward we have chosen a new path that focuses on products that we develop.
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The release quoted Dehler as saying, "Our strategy going forward is to focus solely on the continued development and distribution of our innovative, proprietary gaming products and technologies for Montana's gaming operators and their customers."
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The release said the sale "is part of Fleetwood's plan to pursue opportunities that better align with its new growth strategy and business model and, according to Dehler and Propp, "The transaction will bring greater benefit to our existing customer base due to the fact that Century offers their customers proprietary gaming machines and other technologies that Fleetwood does not.

Steve Arntzen, Chief Operating Officer for Century Gaming, and Jon Dehler, President of Fleetwood Gaming, Inc., readily agree on one theme: that Century's acquisition of the Fleetwood gaming routes is a win/win/win/win/win; that is, benefits accrue to both companies, to location operators, the regulatory community and consumers.
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"We want to be the best" in the game development and manufacturing field, "superior to anyone else," Dehler says.

Besides, Dehler has big plans to expand and grow another of his enterprises, Light It Up, a company that supplies and installs all the latest high tech electronic marketing gismos and exterior and interior lighting devices and products.

Fleetwood's workforce will decline from 65 to 38, according to Dehler, but the balance of the workers will be assuming new positions with Century at the same pay with very similar benefits, he says.

"Like us, Century knows the value of emplyees that can produce results and deliver great benefit to the customers and the company," Dehler says. "If those 27 people would have been facing losing their jobs, this deal would never have happened. Century is getting some fine people."

"This is a great opportunity for our employees and the Montana gaming operator," Dehler says. And of the sale, he says the new arrangement between Fleetwood and Century is "a great alliance and partnership."
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Dehler predicts this new dynamic will substantially boost the number of Fleetwood games in service—up to as many as 1,500 within a year's time, he optimistically forecasts—as the Century routes are now open to Fleetwood equipment.

Fleetwood owner Jon Dehler, an admitted "big-picture" operator, decided in 1998 the company needed closer, more hands-on day-to-day management, so brought aboard Thom Propp who, with a committed staff, set about refocusing the company on rebuilding its route operations and financials while Dehler worked on game development and a proprietary operating system built from the ground up.
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Fleetwood owner Jon Dehler, an admitted "big-picture" operator, decided in 1998 the company needed closer, more hands-on day-to-day management, so brought aboard Thom Propp who, with a committed staff, set about refocusing the company on rebuilding its route operations and financials while Dehler worked on game development and a proprietary operating system built from the ground up.
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In the meantime, Fleetwood owner Jon Dehler continues to operate more behind the scenes, where he can see that big picture, and where he can direct game concept development as well as exploit other opportunities that may present themselves, such as the Big Splash Water Park in Billings, and a new company called "Light It Up" that provides amusement games, lighting and other interior enhancements including the palm trees seen sprouting in locations across the state.

Fleetwood owner Jon Dehler, an admitted "big-picture" operator, decided in 1998 the company needed closer, more hands-on day-to-day management, so brought aboard Thom Propp who, with a committed staff, set about refocusing the company on rebuilding its route operations and financials while Dehler worked on game development and a proprietary operating system built from the ground up.
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Fleetwood owner Jon Dehler, an admitted "big-picture" operator, decided in 1998 the company needed closer, more hands-on day-to-day management, so brought aboard Thom Propp who, with a committed staff, set about refocusing the company on rebuilding its route operations and financials while Dehler worked on game development and a proprietary operating system built from the ground up.
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In the meantime, Fleetwood owner Jon Dehler continues to operate more behind the scenes, where he can see that big picture, and where he can direct game concept development as well as exploit other opportunities that may present themselves, such as the Big Splash Water Park in Billings, and a new company called "Light It Up" that provides amusement games, lighting and other interior enhancements including the palm trees seen sprouting in locations across the state.