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Austria – Sazka announces intention to take sole control of Casinos Austria
By フィル -15年2017月XNUMX日
The largest shareholder of Casinos Austria, the Czech Sazka Group, ‘intends to acquire the sole control of Casinos Austria’ according to a statement published by the Federal Competition Authority (BWB).
Sazka Group, which runs the Czech national lottery, is owned by Czech businessmen Karel Komarek and Jiri Smejc. It said it had bought more shares in Casinos Austria to take its shareholding from 11.3 per cent to about 34 per cent.
The second largest shareholder is the state owned ÖBIB with 33.2 per cent followed by Novomatic with 17.2 per cent. Novomatic had tried to take control of the company last year but failed in the courts. It is not believed to be interested in selling its shares.
Casinos Austria and Austrian Lotteries Group have just reported the best financial year in their 50-year corporate history with an eight per cent rise in group revenues to a record €3,885.95m. Sustained investments in improving and extending its portfolio as well as measures to improve efficiency also led to the group achieving clear increases in results: operating results rose by 49 per cent to €150.1m, while group consolidated results were up by 65 per cent to €91.2m.
顧客やゲストの間でもお祝いの声が上がり、賞金総額は 2.7 億ユーロとなり、11.3 年と比較して 2015% 増加し、またもや歴史的最高額となりました。
カジノ オーストリア国内 12 か所のカジノの訪問者数は、10.6 年に前年比 2016% 増加しました。これらのカジノを合わせると合計 3,009,946 人のゲストを迎え、その半数以上が海外からの訪問者でした。これによりゲーム収益が大幅に増加し、前年比 5.2% 増の 326.83 億 XNUMX 万ユーロとなりました。
