New Lottery to be Launched in Catalonia EMEA
Te Government of Catalonia aims to capitalise on the success of its New Year's Lottery (La Grossa Cap d'Any) with the creation of a major new draw
Te New Year’s Lottery, Catalonia’s major new draw, will be launched in April next year to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the lottery
SPAIN LOTTERIES
SPAIN –Only two years after its creation,
R.Franco Digital’s hard work is bearing fruit. It started with the achievement of on-line gaming and sport betting licences in Spain and the implementation of an on- line operation under the Wanabet brand, in addition to opening the first start-up incubation and acceleration project in the gaming industry, which will soon be continued with new initiatives.
Simultaneously,
R.Franco Digital has developed major projects and acquisitions which materialised in a complete portfolio of B2B2C solutions, services and contents for the gaming industry, both in the national and the international arena. At the Berlin Expo,
R.Franco Digital performed a series of presentations including the grand debut of its new R. Franco Games’ brand. This new Group brand encompasses the adaptation to the digital world of its best known games, as well as the inclusion of new, different and innovating games, such as roulette, AWP, mini-games etc.
For this project, the Company invested in the development of Kolyseo,
R.Franco’s own games server intended to create and distribute games on any (on-line and retail) channel and platform, and to become seamlessly integrated in any gaming operation. This new tool is also provided with powerful back-office, which facilitates game management for operators. At present, Kolyseo is already integrated with IRIS, the Group’s omni- channel players platform which stands out for its high performance, flexibility and scalability, with 1,500 integrated games from different suppliers.
According to Alejandro Casanova, Group CDO, “R. Franco Digital’s presence at EiG is just the beginning of our intense activities which, at every level and starting from ICE in February, we will develop in the next year”.
GERMANY – NOVOMATIC AG has filed a lawsuit with the Berlin District Court against Euro Game Technology Ltd. (EGT), headquartered in Sofia, Bulgaria, as well as its German sales partner D- Systems GmbH, headquartered in Hanover. NOVOMATIC has filed an action for discontinuance of the further sale of certain slot games offered by Euro Game Technology and is demanding compensation for damages.
The lawsuit is based on NOVOMATIC’s view that several games offered by Euro Game Technology "systematically and unfairly use essential elements (including the reel strips) of well-established NOVOMATIC games." Specifically, the games in question are "Ultimate Hot", "Olympus Glory", "Flaming Hot", "5 Dazzling Hot", "Lucky Hot" and "Extremely Hot". Similar legal actions are currently being prepared in other countries.
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Te Government of Catalonia aims to capitalise on the success of its New Year's Lottery (La Grossa Cap d'Any) with the creation of a major new draw which will be launched on April 27th and will coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Catalonian lottery. Te lottery will launch €12m in tickets and a total of 80,000 numbers will go on sale for €5 a ticket. Tickets will be on sale, two days after the draw of La Grossa Cap d'Any, which this year is now in its fourth edition. Te government will put on sale a total of €34m worth of tickets for this year’s La Grossa Cap d'Any.
"La Grossa has become the lottery of Catalonia... and is the time to make it grow. Tat's why we are launching a new lottery on a date as emblematic to Catalans as Sant Jordi," said Director General of gaming and Taxation of Catalonia Marta Espasa. Sant Jordi is the Catalan name of Saint George who is the patron saint of Catalonia. It is is also known as El Dia de la Rosa (Te Day of the Rose) or El Dia del Libro (Te Day of the Book) and the day of Sant Jordi is the Catalan equivalent to Valentine's Day.
“Of the 6.8m tickets that will go on sale, nearly a million will have a prize," Espasa said and added that the new lottery was in response to growing demand for more locally held draws .
Tickets for the La Grossa Cap d'Any have been
Andalusia to allow sports-betting across the Spanish region
Spain
Te Regional Government of Andalusia will authorise sports betting in slot parlours, bingo halls and casinos. Te announcement was made by local authorities during the fifth edition of the Andalusia Gaming Conference which was held at the Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones de la Costa del Sol in Torremolinos. Director General for Heritage of the regional government Antonio Miguel Cervera said that new laws would be in place within a year.
It is hoped that new rules will
on sale since July and can be purchased at any of the more than 2,000 outlets that sell tickets, such as kiosks, bookstores, bars or tobacco shops and online.
Te lottery along with other local lottery products including ‘Loto Rapid, ‘6/49’, ‘Trio’, ‘Super 10’ as well as brand new scratch card games were specifically developed and launched by Novomatic Lottery Solutions (NLS) via its omni-channel lottery system for lottery of Catalonia in April. Tis solution integrates the Catalonian Lottery’s sales network across retail, internet and mobile, and gives the Lottery’s customers access to its products from any channel.
Last year sales for the La Grossa de Cap d'Any, stood at €23m which left a profit of €5.6m which was destined for social welfare programs according to Espasa. So far from the first draw of La Grossa which was held on 31 December 2013, the lottery has generated a total of €20m of profits which has been destined to to social welfare projects. Te aim of the new lottery is to maximise the benefits from the continued success of the New Year’s Lottery which was first launched in 2013 in order to help reduce the government deficit and to obtain part of the €350m that Catalans play via the state run Christmas lottery as well as the Lotería del Niño held on 6th January.
help the industry continue to recover after suffering subsequent falls in revenues between 2010 and 2014.
Andalusia is the only government which does not permit sports betting and the news was greeted warmly by local industry insiders who have been lobbying for changes to local gaming rules for around five years.
Te Andalusia Gaming Convention aims to be a meeting point for all companies specialised in the sector, not only in Andalusia, but also in the rest of the Spanish autonomous communities. Te gaming sector in the region generates a total of 12,200 direct and indirect jobs via a total of 881 gaming operators.
Belarussia
Olympic Entertainment Group (OEG) has confirmed it will exit the Belarusian gaming market due to the inefficient operations caused by the macroeconomic situation and poor prospects to increase profitability in Belarus.
Te revenues and income of the Belarusian subsidiary of OEG in 1H 2016 amounted to €0.2m and operating loss amounted to €0.15m. In 1H 2016 the Belarusian operations constituted 0.2 per cent of the Group’s total revenue and income.
Te liquidation of the Belarusian subsidiary will not cause OEG any material impairment of assets nor liquidation related costs, which will be about €0.1 to 0.2m.
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