Grupo EGASA has confirmed that it will invest €15 million to establish a new dedicated office for its Luckia Gaming Group subsidiary. The plans were disclosed by Galician news sources that outlined EGASA’s ambitions to build a new four-floor digital hub for Luckia, within the group’s hometown of A Coruña. Founded in 1972, leisure, hospitality and property investment group EGASA …
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Portugal’s Comissao de Jogos do Turismo (SRJI) has granted Betway a licence to operate B2C online casino and betting services. The government agency which leads licencing initiatives for Portugal’s gambling marketplace, sanctioned by the nation’s Tourism Board has granted online gambling rights to Betway’s Malta operating subsidiary GM Gaming Ltd. Portugal becomes Betway’s ninth European regulated marketplace, in which the …
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French betting group Betclic has courted controversy after launching its new Portuguese advertising campaign ‘Censurado – (Censored)’ featuring popular comedian António Raminhos. The integrated campaign, which features the slogan ‘The ad that TV could not approve’, sees Raminhos ‘bleeped out’ on TV formats as he tries to explain the benefits of wagering on Betclic against Placard– the digital property of Portuguese …
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Spanish gambling executives have formed a new ‘advisory committee for responsible gambling’, with Spain having revamped its online gambling framework this year, and expanding its market to new incumbents in 2019. The ‘Consejo Asesor del Juego Responsible – CAJR’ advisory has been approved by Spanish gambling regulatory body DGOJ, and will act as the betting industry’s point of contact with Spain’s …
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Ahead of the start of La Liga’s new football season (17 August), Spanish bookmaker Luckia has outlined its commitment to developing and improving Galician football. A subsidiary of Grupo EGASA, one of Galicia’s biggest employers, Luckia has launched its “A Xogada” project in partnership with the Galician Football Federation (RFG). Starting with Spain’s football season for 2018/19 and beyond, Luckia …
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Spanish gambling group Luckia (Grupo Egasa) has confirmed that it will expand its commercial operations within Portugal, having been granted a license to operate sports betting and gambling provisions by Portuguese authorities. Closing its 2017 accounts, in which the Galician operator recorded group revenues €500 million, Luckia governance states that ‘Portugal will be the firm’s next new market destination’. However, …
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Spanish business news source OK Diario has reported that US multi-national private equity firm Blackstone is preparing a bid for Grupo Codere, Spain’s largest gambling operator. The private equity firm, seeks to create the world’s leading Spanish-language gambling/betting group, merging its recently acquired Grupo CIRSA asset with Codere’s enterprise. In its report, OK Diario details that Blackstone executives have turned …
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Continuing to reshape its digital overhaul, Spanish gambling operator Grupo EGASA has confirmed that subsidiary Luckia (luckia.es) has renewed its online gaming services partnership with NYX Gaming Group (NYX) platform system provisions for a further seven years. The partnership extension will see Luckia’s Spanish online casino provisions serviced by NYX group’s ‘Open Gaming’ and ‘Open Platform’ system provisions. In addition …
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Spanish multi-channel gambling operator Luckia has announced that it has upgraded its online sports betting platform to SBTech provisions. Updating stakeholders, Luckia management detailed that a new optimised betting platform was needed in order to meet its growth targets for the Spanish market and in order to meet increasing customer demands. The Galicia-based operator partners with SBTech following a review …
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Grupo EGASA (EGASA) Spanish online gambling brand Luckia (Luckia.es) has confirmed that it has become the official betting partner of La Liga football club Celta de Vigo (Celta). Confirming the sponsorship, which will see the Luckia brand promoted on the back of Celta’s 2016/17 football shirt, EGASA governance was pleased to have partnered with its local Galician football club. …
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