(Navidad) (El Gordo) (The Fat One)

Spain's largest lottery organisation ONLAE offers 'Navidad' (El Gordo, the fat one) the only single lottery draw in the world to award more than $1 billion in prizes.
Navid captivates the entire nation. This can be seen not only in the popular hobby of collecting old lottery tickets, tickets from the first draw have been known to bring in excess of US$10,000, but also in ticket numbers that are held, indeed cherised, by familes. Some familes have reserved the same number for 50 years, passing it from generation to generation.
Sales during December for the annual Christmas draw of Navidad account for approximately 23% of total sales for ONLAE

Bald Farewell to Christmas Lottery Campaign
SPAIN (March 22, 2010) -- His bald head was the most famous television firmament until his star faded. The bald actor announcing the Christmas lottery National Lottery will never be the star of the holidays......................Subscribers

Recession Hits Sales of Spain's 'El Gordo' Christmas Lottery
MADRID, Spain (December 23, 2009) - According to local media reports ticket sales for Spain's annual Christmas lottery, the world's richest in terms of prize money, which was drawn on Tuesday fell for the second consecutive year due to the recession...........................Subscribers

Spanish Xmas Lotto 'Fat' Prize Goes to 78.294, Sold in Madrid, Winners Share Over €2 Billion Euros
The winning number and its prize was sung at precisely 11.38 on Tuesday morning
MADRID, Spain (December 22, 2009) -- The Spanish Christmas Lottery Gordo or first prize has gone to the number 78,294, which was sold in its entirely at lottery branch number 146 in Brave Murillo street in Madrid........................Subscribers

Countdown to Spain's Biggest Lottery, El Gordo de Navidad
2.32 billion Euro will be shared out in the draw this Tuesday
MADRID, Spain (December 21, 2009) – There are just hours to go before the boys and girls from the San Ildefonso school in Madrid start to sing out, as they do on 22nd December every year, the winning numbers in the year’s most anticipated lottery in Spain, El Gordo de Navidad, the Christmas lottery which is known as ‘The Fat One.’.....................Subscribers

Spain's Christmas Lottery is Still "El Gordo"
MADRID, Spain (December 18, 2009) -- Cristina Mateo-Yanguas writes that on the morning of December 22, Spain will be glued to radios and TV sets. A monotonous chant of children’s voices will float through the air of homes, cafeterias and offices for hours. .....................Subscribers

El Gordo (“the Fat One”) - It’s The Taking Part That Counts
Jackson death date popular in Spain's Christmas Lottery
MADRID, Spain (December 17, 2009) -- It is called El Gordo (“the Fat One”) because of the huge amount it pays out: €2.3 billion ($3.3 billion) in this year’s draw, to be held on December 22nd. Yet Spain’s Christmas lottery is notable not just for the vast sums to be won, but also for its clever business model...........................Subscribers

‘Gordo Navideño’ Lottery Sales Heat Up For Sunday's Draw
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica (December 12, 2009) – Reports that with only two days to go sales of the “gordo navideño” (Christmas lottery) finally heated up......................Subscribers

Per Capita Spend on the ‘FAT ONE’ Christmas Lottery Is Expected to be Up 16% in Guipúzcoa Province
Awards are dedicated to the figure of 2320.5 million, which accounts for 70% of 3.315 million in revenue. Assumes 16% more than the 56 euros for last year
GUIPÚZCOA, Spain (December 7, 2009) – In the densely populated coastal province of Guipúzcoa, each Gipuzkoa is expected to spend in this 2009 Christmas Lottery, EUR 64.50, according to estimates from the National Organization of State Lotteries and Gaming (ONLAE)....................Subscribers

Consumer Association Develops Information Campaign on the Purchase of Tickets for Christmas Lottery; Three Weeks to Gordo Christmas
MADRID, Spain (December 3, 2009) – Local media sources report that the Association of Consumers and Users Murcia (Consumur), integrated in FACUA-Consumers in Action, is developing an information campaign until January that includes a list of recommendations on buying tickets for the Christmas Lottery (El Gordo, the fat one)..........................Subscribers

Lottery Sellers in Spain Concerned Over Privatization Rumors
Congress Last Month Approved an Opening Up of State Lotteries in Spain
MADRID, Spain (November 21, 2009) – According to a leading news service lottery sellers in Spain are protesting at what they consider is a back-door privatization of their business...................Subscribers

The Number of El Gordo Lottery Players Is Increasing Despite The Economic Crisis
ALICANTE. Spain (November 8, 2009) -- More and more people in Spain are trying their hand with lady luck as the number of ticket sales for El Gordo, El Niño, and other Spanish lotteries has soared in recent months.......................Subscribers

Europe's Lottery Operators Finding Mixed Fortunes
Article By: Barbara Kollmeyer, MarketWatch.
-- Lottomatica's U.S. exposure not providing a boost; Tipp24 surges
MADRID, Spain  (November 4, 2009) -  When Spain's famed lottery called ‘ El Gordo’ or ‘The Fat One', in English, rolls around this Christmas, you can bet the country with nearly the highest unemployment in Europe will have plenty of participants......................Subscribers

Spaniards Shrug Off Gloom With Fat One, More Than €2 Billion Lottery Prize Split Thousands of Ways in Spain
MADRID, Spain (December 22, 2008) -- Thousands of lucky ticket holders in Spain may have found some relief from the country's economic malaise when the world's richest lottery paid out more than 2 billion euros in prize money...................Subscribers

Spanish Stuff 'Fat One' Christmas Lottery, Despite Economic Slowdown
MADRID, Spain (December 18, 2008) -- The Spanish are stuffing "El Gordo" or "The Fat One", the annual Christmas lottery billed as the world's richest, despite a global economic slowdown that has...............Subscribers

The Spanish Passion for El Gordo
SPAIN (January 8, 2008) -- Hundreds of people's dreams came true last Saturday when they discovered they held a decimo (tenth of a ticket) in the number that won the El Gordo (Fat One) Christmas lottery.................Subscribers

El Niño Brings Lottery Luck to Castellón in Spain
SPAIN (January 6, 2008) -- First prize in the special national lottery draw held in Spain on 6th January, known as ‘El Niño,’ has gone to Castellón de la Plana, in Valencia’s most northerly province...........Subscribers

Lady Luck Replaces Bald British Actor Playing the Part of El Calvo
SPAIN (December 20, 2007) – According to a local media report, 2007 is the second year the posters and TV commercials advertising the world’s largest lottery have not featured ‘El Calvo,’ the bald British actor Clive Arrindell...............Subscribers

Spain’s "El Gordo" Once Again Proves Why Its Called "The Fat One"
Christmas Lottery Showers €2.2 billion On Winners
Top prize goes to Ticket No. 06381
MADRID, Spain (December 22, 2007) -- The top prize in the world's richest lottery, known as El Gordo, or "the fat one" went Saturday to holders of tickets bearing the number 06381................Subscribers

Countdown to the "Fat One": Spain Produces the Next Jackpot for FLUXX
-- FLUXX subsidiary DigiDis SL profiting from "El Gordo" fever
-- Spanish Christmas lottery generates sales of around EUR 3 billion
GERMANY (December 20, 2007) -- With the German record-breaking jackpot for the 6 from 49 lottery still fresh in everyone's minds – having brought FLUXX record sales and record ticket totals – the next "safe bet" for sales is already looming large on the horizon for the Kiel-based gaming specialist: the Spanish Christmas lottery.................Read the full story at: Vol.41 No.13

Spanish Christmas Lottery Popular with Immigrants
MADRID, Spain (December 6, 2007) -- Four out of every ten immigrants are playing in the famous Spanish Christmas lottery this year...................Subscribers

Christmas Festivities Begin with El Gordo - 'The Fat One'
SPAIN (December 3, 2007) -- There is usually a large helping of dated feel-goods on Spanish networks around Christmas, but the undisputed highlight is the huge annual lottery: El Gordo - 'The Fat One'..............Subscribers

El Gordo is Over for Another Year
SPAIN (December 22, 2006) -- El Gordo, the world's biggest lottery, is over for another year. A remote Spanish farming village, Rebollo de Duero, today became several million Euros richer after each of its 25 inhabitants won a share of the top prize...................................Subscribers

El Gordo Christmas Lottery Sales Look Promising
MADRID, Spain (December 19, 2006) -- Everything is ready for this week’s El Gordo lottery draw when Spain almost shuts down and hundreds of thousands of players stay glued to their television sets and radios to find out if they won some of the billions of euros in prize money...........................Subscribers

El Gordo 'The Fat One' Finds a Home
MADRID, Spain (December 22, 2005) -- The lucky first prize winners of the El Gordo lottery bought their tickets in the town of Vic, in Catalonia.
The winning number was..............Subscribers

'El Gordo' is Fatter than Ever this Christmas
MADRID, Spain (December 18, 2005) -- The lottery billed as the world's richest is richer than ever this year, with prize money totaling US$2.4 billion........................Subscribers

El Gordo Lottery Jackpot To Rise
MADRID, Spain (October 19, 2005) -- Spain’s traditional Christmas lottery, called El Gordo or the Big One, for the size of the winnings, is to get even bigger. .............................Subscribers