Company History
Everest is a pioneer of online multi-lingual gaming.
Since 1997, Everest Gaming has been giving players from around the world a top-notch online gaming experience. Our two flagship casinos — Casino Fantasy and Casino Treasure — debuted in 7 languages, making us one of the first multi-lingual online gaming companies in the world. A year later, we launched Casino Lux and Imperial Casino and expanded our casino language offerings to include four more languages.
As our casino offerings continued to grow, we changed our name from Grand Virtual to Ultra Internet Media in 2004, coinciding with the launch of Everest Poker. Everest Poker led the way as excitement for poker spread beyond the United States into Europe and across the globe. We were the world’s first multi-national, multi-lingual Texas Hold’em poker destination. Online poker players could experience the excitement of multi-player poker in seven languages — Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.
The following year, we launched fully-translated poker rooms into the Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and Portuguese markets. We also held our first Everest Poker European Cup, which was met with great success.
Everest is the pinnacle of online entertainment.In 2006, we expanded upon the success of Everest Poker by launching Everest Casino, a truly world-class online gaming destination featuring hundreds of the most popular casino games. With growing worldwide attention around Everest Poker and Everest Casino, we decided to change our name in 2008 to Everest Gaming.
Today, Everest Gaming is an industry leader known for its commitment to creating the most localized online gaming environment worthy of our players’ trust and our global reputation.
Here are some highlights from our company’s history:
September 1997Grand Virtual launches Casino Fantasy and Imperial Casino in 7 languages: French, German, English, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish.
September 1998Grand Virtual launches Casino Lux and Imperial Casino adding Asian languages into its online casino offering, including Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
March 1999Launched 2nd Generation Casino Gaming Software with new games and Custom Casino capability for Affiliates.
September 1999Consolidate operations and move to larger office space in Montreal.
April 2000Launch Casino Glamour and Casino Elegance and add Swedish, Danish and Greek to the casino product for a total of 14 languages.
August 2000Added Hebrew and Arabic for a total of 16 languages in the casino product.
February 2001Added Norwegian to casino product.
November 2002Launched 3rd Generation Casino Gaming Platform with 9 new slot machines.
May 2003Added 17 new Casino games: 15 new slots and 2 new table games.
October 2003Release Affiliated Web Attractions, the only affiliate platform translated into 16 languages with full account management staff fluent in these languages.
April 2004Grand Virtual’s software development group is sold to GigaMedia and the property operations becomes a new company — Ultra Internet Media, SA.
June 2004
Added 6 new Casino games: 1 card game, 4 classic slots and 1 video slots.
August 2004
Everest Poker launches in 7 languages — Dutch, English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Japanese.
October 2004Everest Poker organizes the first German Poker Tour.
January 2005Game of the Month program is launched resulting in the addition of over 100 new casino games during the course of 2005.
March 2005
Everest Poker adds Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, and Portuguese languages to the product.
May 2005
Everest Casino launches in 10 languages: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish.
October 2005
The first Everest Poker European Cup Live Finale takes place in Barcelona, Spain.
November 2005
Everest Poker sponsors the first France Poker Tour.
January 2006
Add over 75 new Casino games: card games, video poker and video slots.
July 2006
Everest Poker runs its first television advertising campaign in Germany.
November 2006
ESPN television debuts Everest Poker Minute that provides insider tips by poker pros.
April 2007
Everest Poker wins 2006–2007 High Roller Awards for Favourite Poker Room from the Platinum Members of Gambling.com.
September 2007
Ultra Internet Media earns “Hot Shot Operator of the Year” and “Poker Operator of the Year” awards from eGaming Review.
October 2007
Everest Poker adds fully-translated software and websites in four more languages — Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, and Polish Everest Affiliates portal is launched.
November 2007
Everest Poker launches reality series, Vegas Voyage in The Netherlands.
April 2007
Everest Poker wins 2006-2007 High Roller Awards for Favourite Poker Room from the Platinum Members of Gambling.com.
November 2007
Everest Poker wins International Gaming & Wagering Business magazine’s “Top International Gaming Products” for 2007.
December 2007
By the end of the year, added 50 new Casino games.
January 2008
Everest Poker wins silver award for “Best Poker Tournaments” by readers of Gambling Online Magazine.
April 2008
Everest Poker launches the Spanish Poker Tour.
May 2008
Everest Poker signs 3-year agreement with Harrah’s Entertainment as the table sponsor for the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
December 2008
Added over 30 new Casino games during 2008.
January 2009
Everest Affiliates wins ‘Best Poker Affiliate Program’ as voted by affiliate members of Casino Affiliate Programs (CAP).
February 2009
Everest Gaming obtains a gaming licence from Malta.
