Tag Archives: Lotteries
Czech – Apollo Global invests €500m into Sazka Group
Apollo Global Management is investing €500m (£448.1m/$591.8m) into Sazka Group, with the formation of a new company Sazka Entertainment who will own Sazka Group. Sazka, who runs lottery businesses in the Czech Republic, Greece, Cyprus, Austria and Italy, as well as owning Casinos Austria and a 40 per cent share in Greek operator OPAP, said…
US – IGT extends deal with New York Lottery
IGT Global Solutions Corporation, signed a two-year contract extension with the New York Lottery, extending its current contract to August 6, 2022. As part of the extension, IGT will deliver 400 new GameTouch self-service vending machines to the Lottery and continue providing the Lottery with an advanced central system, terminals, and ongoing services. “As the…
US – Scientific helps launch Kansas Lottery’s new gaming system
Scientific Games has helped launch the Kansas Lottery’s new gaming system. With plans for the complex technology project beginning more than two years ago, the Lottery’s new gaming system launched on July 29, 2018. “We are excited to confirm that our new gaming system from our new technology partner is officially ‘live’ across our network…
Australia – Northern Territory bans Lottoland’s model
The Northern Territory Government in Australia has voted to no longer allow betting on the outcome of Australian lotteries. Advising the Northern Territory Racing Commission, Attorney General Natasha Fyles said the move to ban NT licensed bookmakers from taking bets on the outcome of Australian-based lotteries had been forced by Lottoland’s ‘synthetic business practice’ which…
Australia – Lottoland Australia wants to work with newsagents, not against them
Lottoland Australia has proposed a world-first partnership model with newsagents, offering a cut of online punts so they can benefit from the company’s 600,000 customer base clocked up just 18 months after it opened its doors. For newsagents that opt in to the proposed model, should they be nominated by one of their customers, they…
UK – OtherLevels appoints CRM specialist Andy Dellbridge from Camelot
Digital messaging platform provider OtherLevels has significantly strengthened its senior team with the appointment of Andy Dellbridge as its new Head of Professional Services and Customer Success. Dellbridge joins from Camelot, the operator of the UK’s National Lottery, where he had been Head of CRM and Digital Player Communications since February 2016. Previously, he headed…
US – Scientific unveils new lottery robotic technology
Scientific Games has unveiled a new, advanced software security system and robotic technologies for lottery instant game security at its Alpharetta, Georgia instant game manufacturing facility, which produces and ships more than 70 per cent of lottery instant games sold in the US. The new, patented KDS360 software security system was developed through a series…
Poland – Intralot to exhibit at Poland’s EL Congress
As a Premium Partner of the European Lotteries Association, Intralot will be participating at the 9th EL Congress “New Directions”, which will take place at Krakow, June, 5 to 8. During the Congress Intralot will present an expanded portfolio of ground-breaking solutions designed to support Lotteries’ modernisation by focusing on digital technology and on the…
Denmark – Klasselotteriet launches new game
For the first time since 1753, the Danish Class Lottery (Klasselotteriet) will launch a new lottery game. In 1753 Klasselotteriet was the first lottery ever in Denmark and now – 263 years later – Nabolotteriet is the first game in which social media plays an integrated and important role. The name of the new game,…
