Australia Making Waves
Intralot is a major gambling company in the global market – it offers a range of
gaming products, including online casino related gaming in some sectors, but is
strongest within the international lottery market. The Australian market on the
other hand is a primarily betting and lottery market – online casinos are not
yet welcomed heavily by the gaming companies and even Intralot’s license in the
lottery market is in trouble now that the companies are down and are not
performing well. Intralot has really done pretty well in the global online
casino gambling market despite the current economic recession. The Victorian
Gaming Authorities though are not pleased with the companies performance lately
and if the figures do not improve for the first part of 2009 Intralot will risk
having its Australian lottery license being revoked.
Basically, Intralot is facing a mid-year review that will likely decide the fate
of the Greek-lottery and online casino gambling company. There are a few new
ideas for how to make the lottery product more profitable in this market – using
a famous face is the main promotion for the coming months. According to Intralot,
former footballer Sam Kekovich might be used to promote the brand and entice
more gamblers to try the Intralot lottery gaming brand. Kekovich has not
actually signed on to endorse the brand though and would not confirm if he would
work as a spokesperson for Intralot.
There is speculation that there is really no way that the land and online casino
lottery company can transforms profits in this amount of time. Although Intralot
is engaging in some heavy advertising efforts, there is only a short amount of
time left before the review from the Victorian State gaming authorities; most
analysts in the industry have little hope that Intralot will be able to affect
much change with a new marketing campaign. |