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during 2014 whilst the number of registrations also increased by 22 per cent. A new bonus game called Tym 68 (Team 68) was launched and the number of live events grew by 50,000 on the year on year basis whilst the live broadcasts grew by 8,000 compared to the previous year. Sazka’s total revenue in 2014 was CzK9.2bn.
Sazka Group a.s is a new holding company established as a joint venture which will aggregate all lottery and gaming assets of KKCG and Emma Capital. KKCG and Emma Capital hold a 75 per cent and 25 per cent share in Sazka Group respectively.
KKCG (Czech investment group) and Emma Capital is the biggest investor of Emma Delta Fund which currently owns a 33 per cent stake in the Greek lottery OPAP.
KKCG was founded by oil tycoon Karel Komerek whilst Emma Capital is run by entrepreneur Jiri Smejc. Tey also owned, until recently, an 11.4 per cent share in Austrian lottery Casinos Austria and a 100 per cent stake in Czech lottery Sazka.
In February this year Novomatic and the Sazka Group formed a long term strategic equal partnership to be shareholders of Casinos Austria and Austrian Lotteries. Te two will form a joint venture company where their shares in Casinos Austria will be joined together to set up an equal partnership for the future development and growth of the Casinos Austria company.
Te two companies had been fighting for a majority shareholding of the Austrian group buying up shares but had hit a wall until they agreed to work together.
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Teir partnership sees them become equal shareholders holding more than 51 per cent of the company.
Casinos Austria has 12 casinos in Austria as well as lottery business Osterreichische Lotterien which includes the WINWIN VLT outlets.
KKCG’s daughter company Italian Gaming Holding and Emma Capital will now also run Italy’s Lotto company with Italian Gaming holding a 32.5 per cent share alongside Lottomatic with 61.5 per cent, Arianna 2001 with four per cent and Novomatic Italia with two per cent.
Meanwhile sports betting solutions provider SBTech recently signed a deal to provide Sazka with its sports betting platform. Sazka’s new sportsbook will also benefit from SBTech’s Chameleon360 gaming platform.
Tipsport bookmakers began offering sports betting services in the early 1990s and were later followed Fortuna and Synot Tip.
TipSport began as a company with one branch in Central Beroun and today is the largest betting company with a 39 per cent share in Czech and it employs 3,000 people working for the brands Tipsport, Chance and Slovakia’s Tipsport. TipSport doesn’t operate sports bars but has 860 sports betting branches in Czech.
In 2009 the company began online betting, launching live betting and unique contest Tipsport League gaining 22,000 clients during the first month and in 2010 they launched a number lottery game called Tipsestka. Today TipSport has around 85 per cent of the online market.
Until recently Tipsport also owned TipGames which was founded as a subsidiary to the company in 2002 TipGames mainly dealt with the operation of Sport Bars and gambling machines, electronic roulette and VLTs. TipGames has some 60 odd locations and also has products in more than 200 establishments in Czech. TipGames however is no longer owned by Tipsport.
In 2013 Tipsport purchased its rival company Chance meaning the two combined now have a market share of around 50 per cent.
Chance is among the top three large bookmaker companies in Czech and was launched in 1991 and today the company has 200 locations across the country. Since 2013 the company is part of the holding company, Chance Tipsport.
Te company has a 14 per cent share roughly and players can bet online via
chance.cz and betting is offering on a wide range of sporting matches.
TipSport plans to add casino games to its
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