| 05/29/2010 |
Online Casino Style: News |
|
|
|
One of the most unprecedented increases was logged for an online gambling company this week as the Czech lottery operator Sazka announced a year on year gain in revenues of 93.7 percent. The primary reason for such growth has been identified almost exclusively as the introduction of online operations, with the jump attributed to those revenues generated through odds betting. Sazka is the operator for the Czech Republic’s lottery program and is based out of the capital city of Prague. As the world’s economic status improves marginally, opening up just enough personal finances for the interest in lottery purchases to find renewal, many throughout Europe are once again participating in earnest in the largest cooperative lottery on the continent, as the Euro Millions saw an increase of 16.9 percent over the same period in 2008 from lottery purchases alone. Sazka is a major participant in the Euro Millions platform. Sazka reported this past week that they had paid out plenty of winnings to encourage players to continue their buys, dishing out more than $211 million in prizes throughout the 2009 year. The sum was marginally better than the previous year, when Sazka didn’t offer their products through an online gambling platform, coming to an increase of 9.8 percent for year-on-year stats. That’s not to say that in-person betting terminals throughout the Czech Republic aren’t getting plenty of action; in fact, Sazka reportedf that the purchases of both lottery and non-lottery products at such terminals last year totaled $893 million. The profits were pretty evenly divided between the two categories, with $403 million coming from betting and lottery platforms, while the remaining $490 million was attributed to payments for non-gambling related services. The lists of such services include things like mobile phone top-up service, sales of tickets for sports, cultural and other events, payments by paying-in slips, invoice and insurance payments or payments for services and goods ordered over the Internet. |
|---|
| Copyright © 2008 Online Casino Style Quick links for news ♦ Jan 2008 ♦ Oct 2008 ♦ Nov 2008 ♦ Dec 2008 ♦ Jan 2009 ♦ Jan 2010 ♦ Feb 2010 ♦ Mar 2010 ♦ Apr 2010 ♦ May 2010 ♦ |