ECA Launches Positive Impact Campaign EMEA
Te European Casino Association launches campaign highlighting the licensed casino industry’s positive impact
Te campaign will highlight areas, such as direct and indirect employment, economic impact, compliance, promotion of tourism, societal contribution, etc
EUROPE CASINO OPERATIONS
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SERBIA – EGT Interactive has signed a strategic partnership with major omni channel platform provider EASIT and already went Live with one of the EASIT’s top operators - MaxBet. This is to benefit of the three companies, as it opens a vast field for new business opportunities and reaching out a large number of potential players. Todor Zahariev, MD of EGT Interactive, commented: “The deal with EASIT is of great importance for us as it gives us access to a number of major operators in strategic regulated territories. Starting with MaxBet, we look forward to adding more of EASIT’s premium operators in forthcoming months.”
Michal Hybl, CEO of EASIT commented: “Currently leading Easit, with its expansion to South Eastern Europe, including spearheading the group’s entry into the new deal with EGT Interactive - an industry- leading provider of technology solutions to igaming operators in regulated markets around the world. We are happy to announce our new partnership and friendship with EGT Interactive.”
Minja Bolesnikov, the CEO of MaxBet, said: “EGT is a very famous company in Serbia and their slot machines and games are one of the most popular and well-known in our own land-based shops in Serbia, which we currently have over 275 in running in Serbia operations. Through different partners of EGT, we always had good relationships and respect towards EGT as one of the leading companies in the gaming industry. We guarantee that EGT games will work very well on online, same way as they are operating in our land-based shops.”
P20 NEWSWIRE / INTERACTIVE / MARKET DATA
Te European Casino Association (ECA), representing the licensed land-based casino industry in Europe, is launching a campaign highlighting the positive impact of the licensed industry for economies and societies. Te underlying evidence was identified through the first-ever comprehensive economic impact study of the industry in Europe.
Te report and campaign will highlight areas, such as direct and indirect employment, economic impact, compliance, promotion of tourism, societal contribution, heritage conservation among a number of other areas. Te campaign, which will primarily run on social media has the aim to provide factual input to policy discussions around the impact of the industry.
Commenting on the launch of the campaign, ECA Chairman Per Jaldung said “As the association representing the sector across almost 30 countries across Europe, we are proud
Spanish giant Cirsa set to acquire developer Giga Games
Spain
Cirsa has just closed an acquisition that will allow it to substantially increase its size in Catalonia and operate a casino for the first time in its home community.
Te gambling group told its bondholders that it has reached an agreement to acquire Giga Games System Operation from the family of Juan Lao, brother of the former owner of Cirsa. Tis operation includes the Gran Casino Costa Brava, in Lloret de Mar (Girona).
Giga Games is a game and leisure group that runs an extensive park of recreational machines located in bars and restaurants, mainly in Catalonia and the Valencian Community. Te company also has dozens of gambling halls and several bingo halls. In total, the businesses acquired
to see our industry’s positive impact on the ground. Te campaign will demonstrate those areas in which the licensed land-based casino industry plays a positive role for European economies and societies. A land-based casino is an economic motor that other businesses benefit from, such as hotels, construction companies and other suppliers. Tis makes casinos an integrated part of the economy.”
“As an industry, we are also closely concerned with the issues of compliance, anti-money laundering, responsible gambling and tackling illegal offline and online gambling. We are committed to closely working with policy- makers and all stakeholders in these areas to develop policy in the best interest of consumers and citizens, as well as maintain and extend our positive social and economic impact.”
Te ECA invites stakeholders and interested parties to engage with the campaign, which can be found on Twitter and LinkedIn.
by Cirsa reached a turnover of €124m in 2018. Tis figure is equivalent to more than half of the turnover (€216m) recorded in 2017 by the Conei Corporation of which Giga Games is a subsidiary.
Juan Lao Hernández founded Conei in 1998 after separating from his brother, Manuel Lao, to whom he sold his 44 per cent share in Cirsa and kept a part of the business. According to local press this acquisition, therefore, involves reuniting the former Lao group and could mean that the two brothers have chosen to divest and sell their gaming operations to North American fund Blackstone.
Cirsa Gaming generated an operating profit of €368.8m in 2018, up 5.1 per cent from 2017, despite the strong adverse impact of the euro’s exchange rate versus other currencies in the Latin American countries where the company operates. Operating income came in at €1,469.1m, a 5.2 per cent increase over the previous financial year.
Uganda
Te Uganda Lotteries and Gaming Regulatory Board has prequalified GLI to provide independent testing laboratory services for the financial years 2018/19, 2019/20, 2021/22. “We are grateful to CEO Edgar Agaba and to the entire Lotteries and Gaming Regulatory Board for their careful consideration and review of GLI’s qualifications. We are honored by the prequalification that extends through 2022, and we look forward to providing the Board with GLI’s industry- leading services,” General Manager GLI Africa Devon Dalbock said.
GLI was the first independent test lab in Africa. Te company recently expanded its lab and staff in its Johannesburg location to accommodate increasing demand for its services throughout Africa. Te company is certified by jurisdictions throughout Africa, including Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Nigeria, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and now Uganda.
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