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products.
“The Florida Lottery welcomes
Wawa as the newest partner in our retailer
network,”
said Florida Lottery Secretary
Cynthia O’Connell.
“With the broad array
of products available at Wawa stores, add-
ing Florida Lottery ticket sales provides
customers with a convenient one-stop shop-
ping experience while helping raise more
money for Florida students and schools.”
It is being reported, but not officially
confirmed, that the owners of lottery
operator and systems supplier GTECH
have authorised management to make
an all-cash 4-billion euro offer for Las
Vegas slot machine maker Interna-
tional Game Technology (IGT).
The UK Gambling Commission
has Issued a New Report Regarding
the State of the Gambling Market in
the Country
According to the report, the gambling
industry generated a total gross gambling
yield of £6.7 billion between October
2012 and September 2013. This was a
growth of £252 million from the previous
period. The report showed a comparison
between remote and non-remote gambling,
and indicated that non-remote betting
retained its market dominance as the most
popular form of gambling in the UK.Non
remote betting generated £3.3 billion in
gross gambling yield and claimed a 48%
GGY total. The non-remote casino sec-
tor followed betting with £1.1 billion in
GGY—16% of the market. Remote betting
matched non-remote casino with a 16%
market share, also with a GGY of £1.1 bil-
lion. There was also a significant growth in
revenue from remote gambling companies
in Great Britain, according to the Commis-
sion. GGY from these operators climbed
by £127 million compared to the previous
period. Also, GGY from remote operators
doubled from the 2009-2010 period to
£632.2 million. According to the report,
there were two areas in the UK gambling
industry which saw a decline in GGY
compared to the previous period—non-
remote bingo and non-remote arcades. The
Gambling Commission will implement
the new Gambling Act on October 1st,
2014. All operators who provide gambling
services in the UK and want to continue
doing so need to submit an application for
a continuation license by the middle of
September.
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The Maryland Lottery and Gaming
Control Agency Joins the Multi-State
Lottery Association
“The MUSL model provides the best
foundation for pursuing new opportunities
and innovation,”
said Maryland Lottery
and Gaming Control Agency Director
Stephen Martino.
“I am confident that
Maryland will benefit because of the infra-
structure and support of the MUSL team
and member lotteries.”
“We are extremely pleased to have the
Maryland Lottery as a member of the as-
sociation,”
said MUSL Executive Director
Chuck Strutt.
“The strength and experi-
ence of the Maryland Lottery staff will
benefit all member lotteries as we reshape
our business operations and the joint
games for the future.”
Iowa-based MUSL facilitates the
operation of multi-jurisdictional jackpot
games and provides benefits to its mem-
bers for enhancing traditional lottery and
casino revenue. This affiliation comes just
months before the MLGCA introduces
the newest national premium game in its
profile; the MUSL-run Monopoly Million-
aires’ Club is due to debut in October.
MUSL, which was formed in 1987, is a
member-owned-and-governed non-profit
association consisting of 34 lotteries. The
group’s staff of 12 provides services
that include game research and develop-
ment, drawings production, IT & security
standards, multi-jurisdictional marketing
and advertising pieces. The group offers
a variety of games, including Power-
ball (which Maryland began selling in
2010) and regional games 2by2, Hot Lotto,
All or Nothing and Wild Card 2. MUSL—
in partnership with International Gaming
Technologies—also provides MegaHits,
a multi-state, wide-area progressive slot
machine game.
Austrian Ministry of Finance has
Granted the Concession to Novomat-
ic, AG for Two Casinos Casino/Racino
NOVOMATIC AG, Europe’s largest
gaming integrated group, announces that it
was granted the concession for two casinos
that will create hundreds of new jobs in
Austria. Building on the group’s long-term
know-how and expertise as an opera-
tor of 30 international casinos—among
them Germany’s largest casino, Spielbank
Berlin—NOVOMATIC will build two
state-of-the-art flagship casino operations,
one at the Vienna Prater and second one
in Bruck an der Leitha, Lower Austria.
NOVOMATIC CEO Dr Franz Wohlfahrt:
“The allocation of these licences now al-
lows us to prove our international casino
competencies in our home market, Austria.
Apart from that it enables us to guarantee
the sustained growth at the NOVOMATIC
headquarters in Gumpoldskirchen whilst
creating jobs for 500 new employees.”
The N.C. Education Lottery earned
more than half a billion dollars for
education programs in fiscal year
2014, a 4.6% increase over 2013 and
the most money ever in a single year.
New Jersey Lottery has Implement-
ed Hudson Alley Software’s OnePlace,
its iPad and Web-Based Lottery Sales
Force Automation Solution
“The lottery sales team, managed by
Northstar New Jersey, provides field-
service to over 6500 lottery retail loca-
tions. The OnePlace tool equips them with
insights and actionable reporting that
enables them to provide great service,”
said Carole Hedinger, Executive Director,
New Jersey Lottery.
“We are delighted to
work with the New Jersey Lottery,”
said
Adam Perlow, Hudson Alley’s CEO,
“they
are among the top performing lotteries and
they have ambitious goals. We’re glad that
they selected our software to help them
achieve those goals.”
OnePlace offers two
user experiences; a native iPad app that is
fast, incredibly usable, beautiful, and that
uses locally cached data for users in the
field, and a web app that has all of the fea-
tures of the iPad app and more—optimized
for users in the office or those using tradi-
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