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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
 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
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