Report SPORTS BETTING - PART 2
FORTUNA GROUP IN SLOVAKIA FORTUNA
Total Amounts Staked Of which Sports Betting Of which commission Paid out Prizes
Gross Win from betting Of which online Of which retail
Withholding Tax paid Other Revenues paid Revenues
LAND-BASED MARKET SHARE COMPANY Fortuna
Nike
Doxxbet Tipsport Others
ONLINE MARKET REVENUES TIPOS SECTOR
TIPKURZ internet e-Casino internet TIPKURZ SMS
SLOVAKIA SPORTS BETTING DIFFERENCE 2013-2014 €167.7m €158,2m €9.4m
+12.7%
(€128.3m) €39.4m €21.5m €17.9m (€9.4m) (€1.1m) €28.7m
+9.2% +21.4% -2.5%
+5.9%
SLOVAKIA SPORTS BETTING NO. OF BETTING SHOPS: APPROX 3,000 NON REMOTE OPERATORS: 4 MAIN OPERATORS - FORTUNA, NIKE, TIPSPORT, DOXX BET GGR: N/A ONLINE MARKET: 2007 REMOTE BETTING GGR: N/A LICENSING: SLOVAK MINISTRY OF FINANCE
Fortuna has a 30 per cent market share in Slovakia
MARKET SHARE 50% 30% 9% 6% 5%
BETTING OUTLETS 850 404
700
compared to Nike with 50 per cent. They offer online betting,
telephone betting, SMS betting and via kiosks. The products
REVENUES 2013 €29,819,938 €149,224,417 €1,050,549
The Slovak betting market is pretty much dominated by two major players – Nike and Fortuna whilst Tipos and Tipsport cover the remainder. Internet gambling regulation has enabled this sector to grow and expand.
Tipos is the national lottery company which is 100 percent state owned and operates under the Gambling Act 2005.
The company was set up in 1992 and proceeds go to the Ministry of Finance. Games include various types of lottery, keno and bingo. It has number and instant lotteries, plus TipKurz which is the betting brand.
Tipkurz was set up in 2005 and covers a whole range of sports from football, hockey, bowls, cricket and badminton. Bets and games can be player via sales outlets (numerical lotteries and scratch cards), internet (numerical lotteries e-Tip, sports bets Tipkurz, e-casino, e-scratch cards, Tipclub and e- bingo) and via SMS (numerical lotteries).
Meanwhile Nike was the first betting company in Slovakia and they entered the market in 1991 opening a branch in Bratislava. Its main activity is fixed odds betting and Nike has a 50 percent market share.
WINNINGS 2013 €27,610,949 €145,138,074 €903,712
Nike also organises lotteries and the most well known is the scratch card game by Nike which runs via the television show of the same name.
Nike has 850 shops in the country and the company offers betting via SMS and online via
nike.sk.
The company produces its weekly Nike Odds List and also prepares its own teletext pages.
The company launched SMS betting in 2001 which operates 24/7 and in 2005 the Nike Club loyalty programme was set up to offer various bonuses.
In 2006 they launched internet betting via
nike.sk and in 2008 brought Nike-Races to Slovakia which is an electronic form of horse racing betting where bettors can play on the Nike internet page and at selected branches. Live betting arrived in 2011.
Fortuna has a 30 per cent market share in Slovakia compared to Nike with 50 per cent. They offer online betting, telephone betting, SMS betting and via kiosks. The products include fixed odds betting, live betting, virtual games and numerical games.
Fortuna is a major player in Slovakia and set up here in 2007 when the company launched its online betting. Today the group has some 404 outlets made up of 221 betting outlets and 183 ‘partner’
include fixed odds betting, live betting, virtual games and numerical games.
betting outlets called Fortunkas, a franchise concept whereby company betting terminals are placed in bars and restaurants. They offer a loyalty programme called Fortuna Klub Plus which has 46,961 members.
In total Fortuna has 1,590 betting outlets with 680 in Czech, 404 in Slovakia and 506 in Poland.
These betting outlets are between 20 and 50sq.m in size.
Slovakia represents around a quarter in terms of amounts staked for the Fortuna group with €167.7m in 2014. This is a 12 percent growth and gross win in Slovakia reached €39.4m. Gross win from online betting was €21.5m – a 21.5 percent increase.
Tipsport is another bookmaker in Slovakia operating fixed odds betting mainly on sporting events. The company opened in Slovakia in 1994 and operated at the time under the name of Doxx, until it was acquired by Czech’s Tipsport in 2006.
Since this time the company has expanded and there are around 700 branches in Slovakia and they also added horse and greyhound racing to its product list. Doxx remains in the market as an operator.
In 2009 a new loyalty programme called Tipkonto was launched to offer regular customers advantages and bonuses and also that year internet betting was set up via
Tipsport.sk
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