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“We expect the competition to be substantial. On the other hand although there is no formal regulation
market it would be naïve to think there is no online gambling in the Netherlands already.”
HOLLAND CASINO STATISTICS
COMPANY Holland Casino CONTACT
www.hollandcasino.nl OWNER Holland Casino/Ministry of Finance
LOCATIONS Zandvoort, Valkenburg, Scheveningen, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Breda, Groningen, Nijmegen, Eindhoven, Schiphol Airport, Utrecht, Enschede, Venlo, Leeuwarden.
GAMES 426 gaming tables, 6,037 slots
REVENUES €GGR 2014: €521.2m (€503.5m 2013), Gaming Tax: €137.1m (29 per cent) (€1309m 2013), Net Revenue: €384.1 (€372.6m 2013), Table game revenue - €213.9m (41 per cent), Slot machine revenue - €258.8m (50.5 per cent)
HOLLAND CASINO On December 17 1975 the Dutch government
issued the first and of course only, casino licence to the De Nationale Stichting tot Exploitatie van Casinospelen inNederland (National Foundation for the Operation of Casino Games in the Netherlands) or less formally known today as Holland Casino.
In March 1976 the company opened its head office at Schiphol airport and in October of the same year opened its first casino in Zandvoort. Tis was followed by two casinos in the popular tourist resorts of Valkenburg (1977) and Scheveningen (1979), which was further followed by a major expansion between 1985- 1989 with five city centre casinos opening in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Breda, Groningen and Nijmegen.
Later casinos in Eindhoven (1993), Schiphol (1995), Utrecht (2000) and Enschede (2002) would join the list and the company had reached the target level stated in the government’s policy document of 1995.
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In 2005 Holland Casino was granted permission to open a further two locations in Venlo which opened in 2006 and Leeuwarden which opened in 2007.
Holland Casino is under government control and the members of the supervisory board are appointed by the Minister of Finance. Te Netherlands Gaming Control Board advises the casino company on behalf of the government. Te casino group currently operates 14 casinos.
2014 saw a new strategy aimed at establishing a new financial basis for the opening up of the gaming market. Tis included a reorganisation and 1,200 slot machines modernised. Te company employs 2,963 people.
Under draft bill Holland Casino is allocated 10 of 16 casino licences and will therefore compete with several other licensees in the future. It is now looking at privatisation and which four casinos it will loose is still being discussed. Visit figures in total were 5,465 in 2014 with 1,088 visitors (down four per cent). Expenditure
per visit was up two per cent to €95. Some 77 per cent of guests visited Holland Casinos between one and three times a year.
Amsterdam is the most profitable in terms of GGR with 15.9 per cent of revenue in 2014. Tis is followed by Rotterdam (12.8 per cent), Breda (10.2 per cent), Utrecht (9.8 per cent), Scheveningen (9.3 per cent), Venlo (8.9 per cent), Valkenburg (8.2 per cent), Nijmegen (five per cent), Eindhoven (4.8 per cent), Enschede (4.8 per cent), Zandvoort (four per cent), Groningen (3.8 per cent), Leeuwarden (2 per cent) and Schiphol (0.6 per cent).
Online gaming licence is welcomed and aims to strengthen their position in the Dutch market. Holland Casino is working with Playtech on the online gaming environment and aims to offer a connection between landbased casino and online platform. Guest registration will be linked and accumulated credits can be used in both environments. Free online play currently available for testing.
Holland Casino told us: “We are in the process of developing our online casino in which a wide variety of games will be offered. Our online casino will be ready before the opening of the online market (probably early 2017). Tere is a big interest in the online licences from different fields including other land-based gambling parties, new and entertainment parties and hotel/leisure parties. We expect the competition to be substantial. On the other hand although there is no formal regulation market it would be naïve to think there is no online gambling in the Netherlands already.”
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