Espelkamp. After an exceptionally good Fiscal Year (FY) 2006 in the context of the new gaming regulations, the family-managed Gauselmann Group exceeded revenues of one billion again in FY 2007. The earnings were maintained at the level of the prior year.
Despite difficult market and competitive conditions the aggregate consolidated revenues of the different corporate divisions increased to € 1.056b (2006: € 1.007b) with a total business volume of € 1.28b (2006: € 1.33b). Domestic and foreign business contributed roughly 50 percent each to the total revenue.

Atlantic City - The 11 casinos here reported a 10 percent decrease in total revenue last month, with every gambling hall, even the formidable Borgata, showing a decline. The casinos won USD 355 million at the slot machines and table games, compared with USD 394.5 million in January 2007. The revenue losses ranged from 21 percent at the Tropicana and the Trump Marina to 0.8 percent at Trump Plaza.

Macao's gaming revenue for 2008 is expected to see a double-digit increase, the total of which will reach 100 billion patacas (over 10 billion U.S. dollars), said Lau Pun Lap, member of the Legislative Assembly of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR), on Saturday. He estimated that this year's gaming revenue growth will be lower than last year, but as industry development keeps its momentum, a double-digit increase can be sustained this year.

Boston - Gov. Deval Patrick released a USD 28 billion budget proposal yesterday, banking on casino licensing fees to fund local aid and challenging his critics in the Legislature to come up with their own solutions to the state's fiscal challenges. "It's better than just digging once again and even deeper into the rainy day fund. What we need are fixes that will last," Patrick said at a press conference yesterday.

A lack of big special events and fewer high-end gamblers figured in a 14 percent drop in the November win for Nevada casinos, to USD 981.1 million, compared with the same month a year earlier, regulators said last week. The state Gaming Control Board reported that the best evidence of fewer high-rollers was the baccarat win for the casinos in November - down nearly 61 percent.

Detroit -- The city's three state-licensed casinos took in USD 1.335 billion in 2007 as revenue growth slowed to 2.4 percent, Michigan regulators said today. Revenue had grown 6.1 percent the year before. Michigan's wagering tax brought in USD 160 million in 2007, the Michigan Gaming Control Board reported. The tax brought in USD 158 million on revenues of USD 1.303 billion in 2006.

Atlantic City casinos will generate USD 4.99 billion in gross gaming revenue this year, according to projections by Spectrum Gaming Group, an independent research firm. Although the figure represents 2 percent growth over Atlantic City’s 2007 performance, it still falls below the record-setting year of 2006, when the industry generated USD 5.2 billion. "Within that forecasted increase, there are powerful forces dampening our projections."

Casinos have doubled its collection in Spain in the latest six years. According to the National Institute of Statistics, the quantity of the money played in this type of gambling centers have passed from 1,381.2 million euros in 1999 to 2,444,83 in 2005. USD 1,735 million of that quantity are bet in the table games while 709 million are played in slots. Most of the increments in casino expenses have been allocated to card games, in which bets have increased in USD 654 million in six financial years.

Macau’s casino industry will likely see record gross revenues of USD 10 billion in 2007, an increase of 46.5 percent over last year, The Macao Post Daily reported this week. The casinos’ gross receipts were expected to reach USD 1.03 billion in December. The casinos’ gross receipts were expected to reach USD 1.03 billion in December, the daily quoted a senior official of Macao’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau as saying.

Casinos in Taiwan may generate USD 3 billion in total annual revenue should the island legislate to legalize the industry, according to Las Vegas-based industry magnate Larry J. Woolf, who manages 13 casinos in North America. “I don’t think it’d be too much of a struggle to reach USD 1 billion" in revenue each should the government allow three casinos, Woolf, CEO of London-listed Amazing Holdings Plc., said in an interview in Taipei.

Revenues at Atlantic City’s 11 casinos are down again, which continue to see their profitable slots customers flee to Pennsylvania and New York. The gambling halls took in USD 384.4 million in October, a 7.5 percent decline from the October 2006. Slots revenues were USD 270.3 million, a decrease of 12.6 percent over a year ago. It matched the worst month of the year so far for slots here, along with September, which was also down 12.6 percent.

Nevada’s casino reported USD 1.06 billion in win revenues for September, a rise of 7.5 per cent against the same period next year according to the state’s Gaming Control Board. Resorts form the Las Vegas Strip was up nearly seven per cent, while downtown Las Vegas casinos showed a rise of 12.5 per cent. Control Board analyst Frank Streshley said that tax from the state’s clubs amounted to USD 257.2 million for this fiscal year after taking into account September, adding that overall, it had been a good month.