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ICE 2023 is at 85 per cent Capacity
Nine months until the start of ICE 2023, Clarion confirms that 85 per cent of the available stand space is already booked.
“ICE London 2022 was the biggest, most comprehensive and most international gaming exhibition to take place since the previous edition of ICE in February 2020.”
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Switzerland - Casino Luzern top earner The Grand Casino Luzern Group has landed the accolade of being the top earning casino in Switzerland, with a gross gaming income of CHF 92.89m in 2021. Thanks to a strong increase in earnings, mycasino, which belongs to the group, consolidated its leading position among Swiss online casinos with significantly increased operating income and corporate profit in 2021.
All Swiss casinos must apply for new licences. In this context, the Grand Casino Luzern wants to renew the combined concession for the casino in Lucerne and the online casino mycasino by 2044 and also open up new markets with Valais a region that has already been earmarked.
Swiss casinos paid casino levies of over CHF 272m in 2021. The largest contribution came from the Grand Casino Luzern: it has transferred CHF 43.35m to the AHV. Over the past 20 years, a total of more than CHF430m has flowed from the Grand Casino Luzern into the AHV fund. In addition to these levies, casinos at their locations pay decent profit taxes for businesses.
Switzerland - Online and land-based parity The online casino of the Stadtcasino Baden Group is now on an equal footing with the gross player income of its land-based casino business. Stadtcasino Baden AG closed the 2021 financial year with a gross player income (BSE) of CHF 103m (previous year CHF 107m) with a profit of CHF 3.5m (CHF 3.9m). At CHF 43m, the online casino
jackpots.ch achieved almost the same gross player revenue as the classic casino for the first time – taking into account that the classic casino had to remain closed for 16 weeks in 2021 due to the pandemic.
Of the CHF103m in gross gaming revenue, Stadtcasino Baden AG paid a total of around CHF39.5m in the past financial year (previous year: CHF 42.5m). This mainly benefits the federal government and flows into the AHV fund. At the end of 2021, the group employed a total of 412 people at its various locations in Switzerland, Slovenia, Costa Rica and Malta, up from 377 people last year.
UK - Rank Group partners with GamCare The Rank Group has announced a new partnership with GamCare for the extensive rollout of safer gambling and social responsibility training for over 1,400 colleagues. The programme will see GamCare deliver 150 days of training to Rank colleagues, kicking off later this month and running through until November. The new partnership builds on Rank’s longstanding work with GamCare which has seen colleagues working in the Customer Service, digital and land-based Mecca bingo business units receive training for the past 18 months.
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Te 2023 edition of ICE London, which will take place across February 7-9, is on course to match the physical size of the 2020 event with 85 per cent of available stand space already booked. Te demand has been driven by the positive experience of exhibitors attending in April coupled with the return of the major suppliers to the land-based sector.
Confirming the news, Stuart Hunter, Managing Director, Clarion Gaming, stated: “We set ourselves some demanding targets in terms of engaging with our customers and I’m delighted to say those targets have been surpassed. It’s clear from the anecdotal feedback, from the independent research that we have commissioned and most significantly from the volume of re-books, that exhibitors at ICE London 2022 enjoyed a hugely successful return to the show floor after a two-year absence due to the Covid restrictions.
“Te vast majority of attending exhibitors re- booked during ICE with a significant number requesting additional stand space. We have also had confirmation of the return of the brands supplying the land-based gambling sector and all of the signs are hugely positive for 2023. Te ICE brand is returning to its traditional February
dates with vigour, determination and a real sense of purpose.”
European Casino Association Chairman, Per Jaldung, welcomed the latest ICE data and the return of the show to its February dates. “ICE is pivotal to the recovery of the land-based sector post Covid and the ECA is working with the team at Clarion Gaming on a programme of symposia for industry suppliers and casino operators in advance of ICE 2023.”
In addition to the news concerning show capacity in 2023, central London has now become a 12-minute journey for ICE attendees next year following the opening of the ‘£18.7bn high-speed train line, which reduces Heathrow/ExCeL journey time to 43-minutes.
Te door-to-door travel time from London Heathrow, a major international hub used by many ICE/iGB international show visitors, will be completed by Autumn 2022 and comprise a single uninterrupted train journey of 43 minutes. London Stanstead airport will be a 54- minute train journey with London Luton taking 34 minutes. Te Elizabeth Line will feature 24 trains per hour giving it a capacity to carry more than half a million passengers a day.
Bulgaria EGT Digital strikes a new deal in home market
EGT Digital has entered a new agreement with Inbet. Te Bulgarian bookmaker chose EGT Digital’s X-Nave iGaming platform and their latest jackpot products as a foundation of their business.
By using a modular technology, X-Nave is a flexible option, providing operators with the freedom to choose top events and markets to customise their offering. Inbet will operate with a customisable back-office portal, providing a real-time data, reporting module, and player account management system. Te players will have access to betting services across 70 different sports, including esports and virtuals, in more than 1,000 betting markets, covering 70,000 events per month.
Te partnership will see EGT Digital’s casino library go live on
Inbet.com. Te product catalogue features the Bell Link multi- denomination jackpot with four
levels and a collection of single- game progressive jackpots. Inbet will offer a selection of game titles to its online players, including Rise of Ra, Vampire’s Night, Shining Crown, Versailles Gold, Burning Hot, together with its new jackpots.
"We are excited to partner with EGT Digital, which we see as another great goal achieved by our company. Teir portfolio of slot games has proven a wide popularity in the industry, and we are sure that our players will enjoy this content on offer, as we are starting with some new attractive tournaments.
“At Inbet, we are constantly on the lookout for new ways to provide a high-class experience to our players, and this is exactly what we expect from EGT Digital’s X-Nave iGaming platform." said Tatyana Zhelyazkova, Head of Marketing.
Czech Republic
CT Interactive has entered the Czech market having partnered with Apollo Games under the casino brand
apollogames.cz. “CT Interactive has broadened its reach in the European market, which shows the great demand for our products, our high-quality standards and fantastic relations with our partner Apollo Games,” said Milena Tsankarska, Head of Business Development EMEA, CT Interactive.
“We’re delighted about this partnership with CT Interactive. Teir casino content will provide our players with more choices on how to enjoy their online casino experience. I’m happy to be the first operator to offer their games in the Czech Republic,“ added Stanislav Jurecka, iGaming Head of Product Development, Apollo Games.
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