Spain's largest lottery organisation ONLAE offers Navidad, known as El Gordo, or the Fat One, it is the only single lottery draw in the world to award more than $1 billion in prizes.
Navidad 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

Spain’s Christmas Lottery Sales at Same Levels as Last year, Despite Overall Sales Down 3%
Mismo 'Gordo' en la Lotería de Navidad, mismo gasto
MADRID, Spain (November 18, 2009) – According to a local media report this year’s Christmas Lottery will offer the same prizes as last year, despite the fact that state bets are reportedly down 3 %.................Subscribers

Latino-Millions in 2010 - Spain and Mexico Signed Agreement to Launch a Weekly Lottery Drawing
SPAIN (October 28, 2009) - Spain and Mexico signed an agreement to launch a lottery drawing weekly. The joint venture was signed this week by Gonzalo Fernandez, president of the Spanish LAE, and Roaro Benjamín González, director general of the Mexican Lotenal.................Subscribers

Spanish State Lotteries and Betting Closer to Privatization
MADRID, Spain (October 28, 2009) -- The first steps towards a privatization process of State Lotteries and Betting in Spain involved two provisions that are included in the general stated budgets that have now been passed in Congress....................Subscribers

European Court Condemns Spain Over Discriminatory Taxation of Gambling
In the case of October 6, 2009 ruled against the European Court of Justice (ECJ), Spain for the discriminatory taxation of gambling (Case C-153/08).  The European Commission was able to successfully complete the infringement procedure against Spain in the essential point.
Article By: Lawyer, Martin Arendt, MBL-HSG
GRÜNWALD, Germany (October 12, 2009) -- The European Commission had in its application against Spain, one against European law contrary discriminatory taxation asserted. After Spanish rules are in fact profits from lotteries and betting, by the Loterías  y Apuestas del Estado (State Company for lotteries and betting), and from bodies  or units of the autonomous communities (similar to the Laender)  would be organized, as well as by the Spanish Red Cross or the ONCE ...................Subscribers

Spain's Largest Lottery Organization Sees More Players But Less Revenue
SPAIN (September 10, 2009) - A steady increase in unemployment in Spain has increased the number of people that expended money in state lottery, Organismo Nacional de Loterías y Apuestas del Estado (ONLAE), games during the last sixth months.................Subscribers

Christmas Lottery Starts Selling the First Half of July
Authorities stress that because of Malaga in February or even before they receive requests to purchase tickets for the drawing for the December 22
‎ANDALUCÍA, SPAIN (June 24, 2009) -- Start the countdown. And less need for government hang the poster of 'Lottery is Christmas.' And that is just a few weeks remaining to be purchased the tickets for this popular draw......................Subscribers

ONLAE estrena un nuevo salón de loterías que no podrá albergar la de Navidad
MADRID, Spain (April 27, 2009) -- Organismo Nacional de Loterías y Apuestas del Estado (ONLAE) today launched, in the Madrilenian district of Tetuan, a new Lotteries hall that will accommodate all the drawings that are celebrated in Spain, with the exception of the Christmas Lottery....................Subscribers

El Niño Lottery Gives Players A Second Chance In Spain
MADRID, Spain (January 5, 2009) -- The El Niño lottery returns tomorrow, Tuesday 6, for lottery players who were unlucky in the famous Christmas El Gordo, El Niño offers them a second chance..................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 State Lottery Reports a 3% Increase in gross Gaming Revenues in First Half of 2008
SPAIN (September 9, 2008) – The Spanish state lottery agency ONLAE (Organización Nacional de Loterías y Apuestas del Estado) has brushed off concerns over unemployment levels in Spain and a loss of consumer confidence, reporting a 3% increase in gross gaming revenues to €4.2 billion for the first half of 2008.................Subscribers

STL and Betware Have Delivered A Research, Development And Innovation Project To The Spanish National Lottery
Reykjavík, Iceland (July 29, 2008) -- Sistemas Técnicos de Loterías del Estado (STL) and Betware have developed and delivered an Internet Solution for the Spanish National Lottery (LAE) enabling LAE to sell its products via the Internet....................Subscribers

Hughes to Provide Broadband Satellite System for Spanish Lottery
GERMANTOWN, Maryland, USA (July 8, 2008) -- Hughes Network Systems today announced that Sistemas Tecnicos de Loterias del Estado (STL) has awarded its wholly owned subsidiary, HNS Ltd., a contract to provide a geographically redundant HN System Network Operations Center (NOC), 2800 HN7700S broadband satellite routers, and support/maintenance services for five years....................Subscribers

Betware Signs Contract With New Gaming Client
REYKJAVÍK, Iceland (August 22, 2007) -- Sistemas Tecnicos de Loterias del Estado (STL), the operator of the online systems for the Entidad Publica Empresarial Loterias y Apuestas del Estado (LAE), the Spanish National Lottery has signed a contract that makes Betware its interactive gaming service supplier.........Read the full story at: Vol.40 No.9

The Commission Takes Spain to the Court of Justice Over its Discriminatory Taxation of Lottery Winnings
BRUSSELS, Belgium (July 6, 2007) -- The European Commission has decided to refer Spain to the European Court of Justice for the way in which lottery winnings are taxed..........Subscribers