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France PMU


PMU PRODUCT Sports betting Horse racing Poker Online TOTAL


FDJ FDJ PRODUCT Jeux de Tirage (loto)


Grattage (scratchcards) Paris Sportifs Online lottery TOTAL


ONLINE LICENCES COMPANY


BES SAS Betclic Beturf


Electraowrks ltd Epmedia France


Everest Gaming Ltd France Pari Geny Infos


Itechsoft Game JOA online


Francaise des Jeux PMU


PKR France Reel Malta Ltd


SPS Betting France Winamax


Zeturf France


FDJ SHARE STAKES PLAYERS 41.7% 45%


13.3%


24.2m 20.1m 3.2m 1m


27.1m


RETAILERS 33,400


25,500


STAKES €5.14bn €5.56bn €1.65bn €334m


€12.35bn


l Paris Hippiques - Online horse race betting (pool bet- ting)


SECTOR Poker games, sports betting


Poker games, sports betting, horse racing Horse racing Poker games Poker games Poker games


Sports betting, horse racing Horse racing, sports betting Sports betting, poker games


Poker games, sports betting, horse racing Sports betting


Poker games, sports betting, horse racing Poker games Poker games


Poker games, sports betting, horse racing Poker games, horse racing Horse racing, sports betting


OVERVIEW OF REVENUES FOR ONLINE SECTORS. SPORTS BETTING HORSE BETTING POKER


Total Bets Net Gaming €848m


€160m €74m


€1.1bn


€246m €75m


€5bn


Total admissions -- €1.4bn GGR


pmu.fr users with an online turnover of almost €1.7bn.


In 2013 the group saw a net profit of €854m. Some €10.4bn was bet in total on horse racing, sporting events and poker with a GGR of €2.5bn.


FDJ


Francaise des Jeux (FDJ) is the operator of France’s national lottery games and is owned and operated by the French government (72 percent government owned). It is the second largest European lottery and


4 4


€258m €162m


l Jeux de Cercle - Online poker games (Texas Hold ‘em and Omaha Poker 4)


Casino games, spread betting and betting exchange were not licensed as they were considered too addictive although poker is permitted.


A number of licences were issued to various operators such as Bwin, PartyPoker and Winamax and the bill made it possible to block illegal sites as well as financial transactions between French banks and these sites.


Initially the tax regime was 9.3 percent on player’s bets on sports games, 14.4 percent for horseracing and two percent for poker bets.


Online gambling was launched just before the World Cup 2010 and as such 1.2 million accounts on licensed sites were registered during that first month and they bet €83m which was twice as much during the same period in 2009.


TOTAL 2013 TOTAL 2012 €7.0bn €1.4bn €664m €311m


€8.0bn €1.3bn €697m €338m


fourth largest lottery in the world.


The FDJ offers two types of Paris Sportifs (sports bet- ting) and this makes up 13 percent of bets in the FDJ product range.


There are 19 sports represented on the FDJ web and bets can be made in nearly 25,500 retail outlets under the brand Parions Sport and on the internet via parion- sweb.fdj.fr. Parions web has some 100,000 customers and saw stakes of €75.5m last year. Turnover for Paris Sportifs was €1.4bn in 2012.


Everyone thought the French market would be a robust one. But some of the large operators such as William Hill, Sportingbet, Betfair and Ladbrokes didn’t enter the French market mainly due to high entry costs and high tax rates. At the end of 2011 there were 35 operators. Today there are 18 operators who between them have 30 licences. The market has declined over the years.


Recreational gamblers are not taxed for betting online in France. To bet online in France players need to open an account with a French licensed bookmaker and make a deposit either via a debit or credit card or via the various e-wallets. Players can also purchase a PaySafe Card voucher to deposit in cash and these are sold at retailers such as mobile phone shops or petrol stations.


Football is the most popular sport for online betting (61 percent of the betting market) whilst other sports include tennis, rugby, handball and Formula 1.


MARKET SHARE 24%


10% PLAYERS 35,000 540,000 users


STAKES €199m €9.6bn


€569.9m €1.7bn


€10.4bn


Parions Web was made available in 2013 on the iphone and ipad and this new App apparently accounted for 25 percent of ParionsWeb revenue.


ONLINE


The online gambling law in France arrived in May 2010 with the Law No. 2010-476 which is referred to as the French Gambling Act. Operators were authorised and a new authority called ARJEL (Audorite de Reglementation des Jeux en Ligne) was set up to govern this sector.


There are three types of licences for the three types of online gambling activities issued:


l Paris Sportifs - Online sports betting (live betting, pool betting and fixed odds)


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