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Austria
Casinos Austria
www.casinos.at
Website focuses on the companies 12 operations in Austria. Locations, table numbers, special events and attractions.
Casinos Austria International
www.casinosaustria.com
Casinos Austria was originally formed in 1967.

"Casinos Austria International and its partners currently operate 52 landbased casinos in 15 countries and 14 shipboard casinos. Its parent company, Casinos Austria AG, operates the 12 casinos in Austria. Casinos Austria International's 66 casinos currently feature a total of 971 gaming tables and 8703 slot machines."
CAI website text @ 23rd March 2005.

Casinos Austria Swiss AG
www.casinosaustria.ch

CARD (Casinos Austria Research and Development)
www.CardAustria.com
The best known product is the Shuffle Star multi-deck continuous shuffling machine. Also linking to the main CA site from www.ShuffleStar.com and www.CardAustria.com
Concord Card Casinos
www.cccpoker.com -  Live online Poker website.
Novomatic Group
www.novomatic.com
 Novomatic Automatenhandels GmbH. Multi-national company founded in 1980 by Professor Johann F. Graf. Offers numerous services ranging through slot manufacturing, sports bookmaking and casinos.

Some of the main company subsidiaries are listed below...
Austrian Gaming Industries
www.austrian-gaming.com
Casino Admiral Prater
www.casinoadmiral.at
Admiral Casino Entertainment (ACE)
www.admiralcasinos.ch
Astra Games Ltd.
www.astra-games.com
European Data Project
www.edpsro.cz
Admiral Sportwetten AG
www.admiral.ag
NSM - Löwen Entertainment
www.loewen.de


 
 
Denmark
Dansk Tipstjeneste
www.tips.dk
Government owned (80%) provider of Lotto, scratchcard & sports betting products with over 60% of the Danish gaming market. A 10% stake is also held by the Danish Sports Federation and the Danish Gymnastics and Sports Association. Originally founded in 1948 following the passing of the Danish Pools Act. 
Det Danske Klasselotteri A/S
www.klasselotteriet.dk

 
 
Finland
Casino Ray - Grand Casino Helsinki
www.casino.ray.fi
www.grandcasinohelsinki.fi
Casino Ray is the sole permitted casino operator in Finland and moved into new premises at Mikonkatu 19, Helsinki on April 1st 2004.
PAF
www.paf.fi
Ålands Penningautomatförening, translated means "The Åland Islands' Slot Machine Association". Islands located between Finland and Sweden. Gaming operations on 29 ships in the Baltic and 4 in the Med. Also moving into online gaming.

 
 
France
Partouche Group
www.partouche.fr | www.partouche.com
www.partouche-finance.com
France's largest casino operator. The companies casinos are located mainly in the north and south-east including Le Touquet, Lyon & Cannes(Le Carlton). Knokke in Belgium. Ajdir, Morrocco. Djerba, Tunisia. & Bucharest, Romania.

December 2005.
Partouche bought 5 casinos owned by Didot-Bottin in August 2005 and we were informed that the company had 58 casinos in total. (50 in France, 3 in Belgium, 2 Switzerland, 1 Morroco, 1 Tunisia, 1 in Spain).

Lucien Barrière
www.lucienbarriere.fr
In 2004 Lucien Barrière's and Accor's casino operations were merged, also part of the deal was Colony Capital from the U.S. The group ownership structure is believed to be Barrière Desseigne (51%) Accor (34%) and Colony Capital (15%). Barrière Casinos is France's 2nd largest casino operator with approximately 29% of the market.
Groupe Cogit
www.groupecogit.com
4 casinos in mainland France including Casino de Cherbourg. 2 casinos on Martinique F.W.I. and  2 on Guadeloupe F.W.I.
Groupe Emeraude
www.groupe-emeraude.com
Belongs to Groupe Pierre Le Foll, which has a turnover of 300 million Euros and 2000 employees. The sixth largest casino group with 12 casinos across Western France. 
Groupe Moliflor - Moliflor Loisirs
www.moliflor.fr
www.moliflor.com
France's 3rd largest operator with 21 casinos (August 2006) mainly located in the countries coastal regions.

November 2005.
Bridgepoint Capital aquired Moliflor for €450 million in mid-November from British Insurer Legal and General.
www.bridgepoint-capital.com
22nd December, 2005.
Loto-Quebec announced it had bought a 35% share of Moliflor for C$80 million.
www.loto-quebec.com

International Group of Gaming & Resorts 
www.iggr.com
Owned by the Raineau Group. Operates casinos in France, Egypt, Argentina & Curacao.
Group Tranchant
www.groupetranchant.com
15 French casinos mainly on the northern and Mediterranean coasts. Recognisable by the colourful Tranchant casino logo.

 
 
Germany
German Casinos and Spielbanks presently number around 64. At the start of 2007 49 had table games and 15 or so were slot/electronic game operations.

See German Casinos for a more complete listing.
 
 

Bayerischen Spielbanken (9)
www.spielbanken-bayern.de
Casino Schleswig-Holstein (5)
www.casino-sh.de
Four casinos in the North German State (Länder). Kiel, Travemünde, Schenefeld, Westerland/Sylt. Slots in Flensburg.
Westspiel Casinos (6)
www.westspiel.de
Westdeutsche Spielbanken GmbH.
Spielbank ieidersachsen (10)
www.spielbanken-niedersachsen.de
Saarland Spielbanken
www.saarland-spielbank.de
8 operations in Germany, 2 with tables & 6 slots only. Also 3 Class B operations in Switzerland - Arosa, Interlaken & Zermatt.

 
 
Greece
Intralot Group
www.intralot.com
www.betting.gr
www.pamestihima.gr
Monopoly operator of the Greek lottery and sports betting services.

 
 
Holland - The Netherlands
Holland Casino
www.hollandcasino.nl
www.hollandcasino.com
Holland Casino's first operation opened in the coastal town of Zandvoort on the 1st October, 1976. Presently HC has 14 casinos with the latest opening in Leeuwarden on the 2nd December 2006. Sole "legal" operator permitted in the Netherlands.
 
Amsterdam Rotterdam
Breda Scheveningen
Eindhoven Schiphol Airport
Enschede Utrecht
Groningen Valkenburg
Leeuwarden Vento
Nijmegen Zandvoort

 
 
Monaco
Société des Bains de Mer (SBM)
www.sbm.mc
www.montecarloresort.com
Société des Bains de Mer. The famous old Monaco casino now listed on the French stock market. Enterered into a marketing & business partnership with Wynn Resorts in June 2003.

 
 
Portugal
Casino Estoril
www.casinoestoril.pt
Solverde
www.solverde.pt
Operates 4 of the 8 casinos in Portugal.
Hotel Algarve Casino Casino Montegordo
Casino Espinho Casino Vilamoura

 
 
Slovenia
Hit Casinos
www.hit.si
Major operator in Slovenia with 5 casinos in the north drawing clientele from Austria and Italy.

 
 
Spain
Cirsa/Unidesa
www.cirsa.com
Compania Internacional de Recreativos
Owner of the Barcelona slot manufacturer Unidesa. Operator/partner in 3 Spanish casinos. The company also has Casino de Buenos Aires a casino riverboat in the Argentinian capital (600 slots, 70 tables).

It was reported in January 2007 that the Cirsa goup has... "16,000 employees owns 22 traditional Casinos, 100 Arcades, 73 Electronic Casinos, near 100 Bingo halls and more than 85,000 slot machines in the restaurant/food-industry and in casinos worldwide."
 

Grup Peralada
www.casinos-catalunya.com
www.grupperalada.com
Operator in the northern Spanish region of Cataluñya. Including the famous Gran Casino de Barcelona.
Grupo Comar
www.grupocomar.com
Operates casino in Spain, the Dominican Republic & Venezuela.
Grupo Codere
www.codere.com
Major slot distributor in Spain. The company also has bingo operations in Italy and slots and casinos in South America. Codere went public in October 2007, previous to that 91.8% of the company was owned by the Martinez-Sampedro family.
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=CDR.MC
Recreativo Franco - R. Franco S.A.
www.rfranco.com
Grupo Orenes
www.orenesgrupo.com
6 casinos in Spain and 2 in Croatia.

 
 
Sweden
Betsson AB 
www.betsson.se
The company changed it's name in May 2006 and was formerly known as Cherryforetagen AB (Cherry - www.cherry.se). Split into 3 divisions the company is Sweden's largest operator or restaurant (low stake) casinos. Betsson also have AWP's in Denmark, cruise and ferry concessions and Internet casino sites operated by subsidiary Net Entertainment.
See also...
www.cherrycasino.com
www.CasinoDomain.com
www.netentertainment.com
Knutsson Bolagen SE
www.knutsson.se
Founded in 1959 by Bertil Knutsson. Operates a number of restaurant style casinos in Sweden and manufactures the Chipper Champ. Knutsson's subsidiary Victoria Holdings is the parent company of TCS John Huxley.
Svenska Spel
www.svenskaspel.se
State owned gaming company that operates Sweden's lottery with a diverse range of online and offline products.
Casino Cosmopol
www.casinocosmopol.se
Operating name for the Svenska Spel casinos in Sundsvall, Malmö, Göteborg  & Stockholm.

 
 
Switzerland
Swiss Casinos
www.swisscasinos.ch
5 casinos in Switzerzerland. 2 Class A and 3 Class B all with different percentage ownership stakes.

Operations and opening dates.
Grand Casino Bern Class A. 6th July 2002.
Grand Casino St. Gallen Class A. 28th November 2003.
Casino Schaffhausen Class B. 1st September 2002.
Casino St. Moritz Class B. 15th December 2002.
Casino Zürichsee Class B. 12th Novemver 2002.

Admiral Casino Entertainment (ACE)
www.admiralcasinos.ch
www.novomatic.com/en/ace
Part of the Novomatic Group. Has stakes in 3 Class B casinos. Bad Ragaz, Casinò Locarno & Casinò Admiral Mendrisio.
Casinos Austria Swiss AG
www.casinosaustria.ch
Escor Casinos & Entertainment SA
www.escor.ch
Listed company on the Swiss Bourse. Gaming machine operator and 36.5% of Casinò Locarno.
Golden Games
www.goldengames.ch
Slot manufacturer and supplier located in Switzerland.
Schweizer Casino Verband
www.switzerlandcasinos.ch
Further information about European operators active in Switzerland.

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