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Today sports betting is run by two organisations – De Lotto which operates sports betting of all sorts (except horse racing and trotting) and Sportech Racing BV which runs the totalisator for pari-mutuel betting on horse trotting and racing.
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Sportech Racing is a subsidiary of the UK’s Sportech PLC company operating in the Netherlands under the name Runnerz. It is the sole licensee in the Netherlands for the organisation of bets on horse races at home and abroad via the tote method. This has operated since 2010 via Sportech Racing. The licence for operating bets on horse racing runs until 2016.
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Dutch revenues for Sportech were £5.1m in 2014 compared to £5.3m in 2013 with an EBITDA of £0.3m.
In 2013 the combined turnover of the two licensees for sports betting was €77m divided between €53.7m (De Lotto/toto) and €23.1m (Sportech-Runnerz) compared to €45m and €25m in 2012 respectively.
software for their online games. Krooncasino has an nl facing website. Te live casino option, meanwhile, is operated as a separate section of their main site and is powered by Evolution Gaming - a supplier of live casino games.
Oranjecasino.com Oranjecasino.com also now owned by Betsson offers online casino games as well as a live casino option. It also advertises Dutch croupiers twenty four hours a day and has a Dutch language only website and describes itself as the first real Dutch legal online casino. It was created in 2004. It offers online casino games which run on Swissgame, Net Entertainment and Evolution Live Gaming.
Olympic Entertainment Group In March 2013 Estonian operator Olympic Entertainment Group (OEG) acquired Netherlands-registered holding company Siquia Holding B.V. OEG is a leading provider of gaming services in the Baltic States. OEG
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established and registered two companies – Gametech Services Ltd. and Gametech Licensing Ltd. – in Jersey. CEO Madis Jääger explained that the moves were intended to create a legal platform for the expansion of OEG’s online gaming business.
TMG Landelijke Media In 2014 the Dutch division of global television producer Endemol entered into a joint venture with TMG Landelijke Media to develop online gaming when the Dutch market opens. TMG Landelijke Media is one of the largest Dutch media groups. Endemol Games designs online betting games based on popular television programmes that have been created by its parent company, the Netherlands-based production studio Endemol. Endemol Nederland CEO Laurens Drillich
said the market offered “many opportunities” for content creators. Together the companies plan to work on the design of “bingo concepts” as well as “online gaming game concepts.”
Jackpot City Registered in Malta Jackpot City offers a live dealer, features its services in Dutch and advertises itself on its website as the Netherlands No.1 Gaming Destination and offers more than 500 games. All these games are designed and developed by Microgaming as is their live dealer option.
Klavercasino.com Klavercasino.com offers its services to locals and offers bonuses which are only valid for new Dutch players. It hosts a NetEnt casino powered by Net Entertainment software, a Playson online casino and live dealer site that offers live tables as well as a large number of online slots. Te site supports English and Dutch. Te site offers a wide variety of live casino
games including a number of live roulette blackjack and punto banco. Te site has a twitter and facebook page updating its promotions in Dutch.
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