Veikkaus Awarded for Excellent Quality
Article by: Ilkka Juva, Communications Director, Veikkaus Oy
VEIKKAUS, Finland (November 14, 2007) -- Veikkaus prides in high quality in all of its activities, and we are constantly working hard to improve our performance in this area..........Read the full story at: Vol.41 No.9

Leading Lotteries Already Generate Up to 15% of Their Total Sales From Interactive/Internet Channels
MECN’s new benchmarking report offers unique insights into the interactive/internet strategies of global lotteries
LONDON / MUNICH (November 12, 2007) -- Although the retail channel still dominates the global lottery market, interactive channels are catching up quickly. Leading lotteries in the interactive area - such as the Scandinavian lotteries - generate up to 15% of their total sales via interactive channels. And more is to be expected with an average annual growth rate of interactive sales of more than 50%...........Subscribers

Working Paper 2007-042A
"Inter-temporal Differences in the Income Elasticity of Demand for Lottery Tickets"
ST. LOUIS (October 2007) -- We estimate annual income elasticities of demand for lottery tickets using roughly twenty years of county-level data for three states...........Subscribers

Preventing Problem Gambling Important
Article by: Johanna Lipponen, Manager, CSR
VEIKKAUS, Finland (October 1, 2007) -- According to a recent survey by a Finnish market survey company (Taloustutkimus Oy) commissioned by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, the group of people being or risking to become problem gamblers still includes around 65,000 or 1.5% of Finns...........Subscribers

Case Study Project LOTTO Hamburg by adesso
Author: Siegfried Spies, Managing Director LOTTO Hamburg
HAMBURG, Germany (September 29, 2007) -- In the eighties, the lottery business has developed strongly into a technology-focused activity in which the management and processing of information play a very important role........Subscribers

Key Findings of the British Gambling Prevalence Survey 2007
LONDON, UK (September 19, 2007) -- The British Gambling Prevalence Survey is a large-scale nationally representative survey of participation in gambling and the prevalence of problem gambling in Great Britain.......Subscribers

Report -- Retail Strategies of Global Lotteries Differ Significantly
MECN’s New Benchmarking Report Offers Unique Insight Into the Retail Strategies of Global Lotteries
LONDON, UK (September 25, 2007) -- Lotteries are increasingly interested in benchmarking and success factors. And as the retail channel still dominates the global lottery market, retail benchmarks and success factors are the ones many eyes are foremost turning to. Key results of MECN’s new lottery benchmarking study: retail strategies differ significantly, and many European lottery monopolists employ a much less aggressive retail strategy than is sometimes alleged...........Subscribers

New Unique Benchmarking Report for the Global Lottery Industry Including Analysis of Sales, Costs, and Sales Channels
MECN Has Prepared a Benchmarking Report Analysing Data From More Than 150 Lotteries – Also Including Success Factors And Best Practices
LONDON / MUNICH (September 6, 2007) -- Lotteries are increasingly interested in benchmarking and success factors, as for example the recent WLA seminar “Benchmarking Lottery Performance” has shown............Subscribers

Book Review: "Roll The Bones" - The History of Gambling
By Glenn Barry of McCallum Consultants, Email: gbarry@sydney.net
SYDNEY, NSW, Australia (July 2007) -- The strongest hand in this book is the history of Casino gambling and some of that history is fascinating. While the book touches on lotteries and in greater depth 'sports betting' the author is............Subscribers

Fraud Case Could Shake Australian Lotteries
Article By: Glenn Barry of McCallum Consultants,
Sydney, NSW, Australia (June 19th 2007) -- Scary, that is how I would describe the outcome of a lottery fraud case decision in the District Court of NSW Australia on June 18th 2007. The basics of the case are.............Subscribers

Monday Lottery V2.0, If at First You Don't Succeed…
SYDNEY, NSW, Australia (june 12, 2007) -- After a disastrous crash and burn of some 15 million pounds in capital,  Monday Lottery is back. The assets were bought from the AIM listed Chariot by the equally AIM listed..............Subscribers

Money Laundering With Winning Tickets
Article by: Ilkka Juva, Communications Director, Veikkaus Oy
VEIKKAUS, Finland (May 18, 2007) -- In a communication dated 16 April, the Finnish police announced that the winning tickets of betting and off-track horse betting games have been used for purposes of money laundering. The winning tickets have been bought to launder cash that have been acquired by criminal means.......Read the full story at: Vol.39 No.9

Satisfaction Levels For Lottery Play Drop For The Third Straight Year
CHICAGO, Illinois, USA (May 10, 2007) -- Independent Lottery Research, a nationally respected source of information about lotteries worldwide, conducts a national survey every month in the United States measuring adult attitudes toward state lottery games, play, advertising, and privatization ..........Subscribers

New AGA Survey Shows U.S. Casino Industry Characterized By Significant Growth and High Approval Ratings
WASHINGTON, D.C., USA (May 8, 2007) -- Gross gaming revenues for the U.S. commercial casino industry climbed 6.8 percent in 2006 to reach a new record of $32.42 billion, according to a survey released today by the American Gaming Association (AGA)..........Subscribers

EXCLUSIVE: Kenya Lotto Joint Venture "Bites the Dust?"©
SYDNEY, NSW, Australia (April 20, 2007) -- Just what is going on in Africa? Leaving aside South Africa (which at least is a success... when it is running) and a handful of others, lottery start ups seem to be having no end of problems getting off the ground in Africa and the "Bites the Dust ©" series of stories thus enter their third year..........Subscribers

Number One Reason Canadians Gamble Is For Fun, Not Money - National Survey of Attitudes and Gambling Behaviours Reveals Surprising Insights
HALIFAX, Canada (April 11, 2007) -- Twice as many Canadians gamble simply for the fun of it, than gamble in an effort to make money, according to the annual National Gaming Monitor : a cross-country survey of the opinions of 1,000 Canadians on the subject of gaming..........Subscribers

Italy’s Forerunner Role in the Liberalisation of European Gambling Markets Will Allow it to Grow to as Much as €61 billion by 2010
LONDON/MUNICH/MILAN (April 11, 2007) -- After the decision of the European Court of Justice in the Placanica case and the recent tender that allowed a large number of online and land-based gambling operators to enter the Italian market.........Subscribers

New Zealand’s Gaming Future Vibrant and Relevant
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (April 10, 2007) -- Despite a number of “challenges and onslaughts”, New Zealand’s gaming industry has a vibrant and harmonious future, according to industry leaders presenting at the New Zealand Gaming Expo www.nzgamingexpo.com, held March 21, 2007..........Read the full story at: Vol.39 No.3

Who Plays Lotteries And Why?
CHICAGO, Illinois, USA (April 5, 2007) -- Independent Lottery Research (ILR) is holding its second annual research camp this July. It’s first camp, held last October during the National Association of State and Provincial Lotteries Convention was a resounding success...........Subscribers

New Study Highlights Expectation of Partial Liberalisation of the German Betting and Lottery Market
MUNICH, Germany (March 29, 2007) -- The management consultants at MECN have just completed a new study analysing developments in the German betting and lottery market following the Federal Constitutional Court’s decision, the state treaty on gambling, and the ECJ’s decision in the Placanica case.........Subscribers

Responsible Gaming Promoted Globally
Article By: Johanna Lipponen, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Veikkaus
VEIKKAUS, Finland (March 13, 2007) -- Responsible gaming is a common challenge and objective to state lotteries operating on the basis of an exclusive right around the world. The state lotteries want to offer their customers the most reliable, secure and responsible offerings and gaming environment..............Subscribers

Independent Lottery Research Reports On Consumer Attitudes Toward Privatizing State Lotteries
CHICAGO, Illinois, USA (March 2, 2007) – In January, Independent Lottery Research (ILR), a Chicago based research company specializing in the lottery sector, reported on the widely divergent views that the public has about states selling their lotteries to private companies................................Subscribers

New Lottery Ticket Will Bust Myth of Jackpot Fatigue
PHOENIX, Arizona, USA (February 8, 2007) -- Relationship Marketing Systems, LLC, a lottery products company in Phoenix, Arizona has a patent-pending lottery ticket designed to increase sales of state lottery jackpot games.  According to Andy Amada, president of RMS, “Believing in the myth of ’Jackpot Fatigue’ is holding state lotteries back from generating a lot more sales and revitalizing their online games.”...........Read the full story at: Vol.38 No.7

Want Some Second Hand Lottery Gear?
Article By Glenn Barry of McCallum Consultants
SYDNEY, NSW, Australia (February 8, 2007) -- Looking for some bits and pieces? Then the bits and pieces from the failed Jilin China lottery deal, about 1994/5, might interest you..............Subscribers

EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Tattersall's Adrian Nelson
SYDNEY and MELBOURNE (February 2, 2007) - After nearly 20 years with the Victoria, Australia, based Tattersalls group, Adrian Nelson is hanging up his lottery and gaming industry spurs, at least the ones marked "Tattersalls were here". And a rollicking ride it has been for the former Dulux Paints marketing executive who joined Tattersalls back in 1987.............Subscribers

State lotteries' Exclusive Right Indispensable for the Minimisation of Gaming Problems
Article by: Ilkka Juva, Communications Director, Veikkaus Oy
VEIKKAUS, Finland (January 24, 2007) -- The Ministry of Social Affairs and Health published a research on young people's playing habits right after the Christmas Holiday. The most important, yet not very surprising information was that the age limits are not monitored sufficiently well..........................Subscribers

Independent Lottery Research Examines Lottery Privatization
CHICAGO, Illinois, USA (January 18, 2007) – Independent Lottery Research (ILR), a well known research company dedicated to analyzing the lottery industry, has completed a wide ranging project to understand the issues surrounding the selling or leasing of state run lotteries to private companies. ILR, founded in 2005, has worked with lotteries and lottery vendors all over the world examining lottery player ship, lottery games, sales, new lottery products, and new technologies.............................Subscribers