Reports ITALY
In 2008 the company’s gross turnover was €6.5bn and is ranked as the 10th largest lottery operator worldwide.
• COGETECH Cogetech was founded in July 2004 and today has offices in Milan and Rome and operates through a capillary commercial network within Italy. The company currently operates 37,000 gaming machines under the Comma 6a legislation and also has 400 betting shops.
Cogetech saw a €250m turnover in its betting operations and €1.4m turnover for its AWP sector during the first half of 2008.
Last year, in anticipation of the new VLT legislation Cogetech joined forces with ACE Interactive (owned by Aristocrat) to develop VLTs for the new Comma 6b market.
ACE was founded in 2003 to develop and market video game systems and in May 2006 it was acquired by Aristocrat. The company is renown for its TruServ platform and products such as Indago interactive video terminal combined with
Aristocrat games and third party providers.
• SNAI The SNAI Group was founded in 1990 with the establishment of SNAI Services which provides logistical support to betting shops. By 1999 the SNAI Group was a leading provider in Italy and Europe of computer services to high end technology for the collection and management of horse race betting, sports, pools and entertainment machines.
Today the group’s principal activity is the management of race courses and related betting services but has several subsidiary companies involved in real estate, publishing and television and multimedia.
SNAI SpA is the operating arm of the group and today the company has 1,206 sports rights (342 shops and 864 points of sale) and 3,886 horse rights (99 shops and 3,787 points of sale).
The group also operates around 35,000 slot machines and in 2008 saw total group revenues of €540m with SNAI SpA achieving revenues of €522m.
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Earlier this year the group presented the new totem SmartGames – a new range of games including poker, sports betting and Scratch which can be distributed online to operators.
• CIRSAITALIA Cirsa Italia is part of the Cirsa Corporation which was founded in Spain in 1978. The Italian arm of the company was set up in 1996 with Unidesa, the manufacturing arm of Cirsa.
Since that time the company has grown steadily and in 2000 Cirsa Bingo was set up followed by Cirsa Interactive to offer a complete range of services and machines.
• HBGGROUP Founded in 2000, HBG Group is one of the leading bingo hall operators in Italy and in 2003 consolidated its position by acquiring Bingo Plus Spa of Lottomatica.
Today the company operates 20 bingo halls in Italy plus after receiving the concession for the NewSlots in 2004 now has more than 30,000 slots distributed in 12,000 outlets with 400 partner operators.
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