Lottomatica is a wholly-privatized industrial group directly controlled by Gruppo De Agostini S.p.A. (59.7 %).

The Lottomatica Group is a world leader commercial operator and provider of technologies in the regulated gaming markets, delivering best-in-class products and services, with a commitment to the highest levels of integrity, responsibility, and the creation of shareholder value.

The Group operates in the following sectors: online, instant, and traditional lotteries; pools, pari-mutuel, and fixed odds betting; interactive games; games machines; gaming solutions; multichannel gaming entertainment products and services. Nonetheles, Lottomtica Group also operates in the areas of processing retail solutions for real-time transaction and information systems for the sports-betting market.

The Group has also invested its own competences of distribution and transaction processing in order to expand its activities, including the supply of commercial services through its global network.

Positioning

Lottomatica Group has a distinctive position characterised by a significant global presence in all sectors that are related to gaming; the Group is a world leader along the entire lottery value chain. Compared to its competitors, which are typically focused on specific areas or stages of the value chain, the Group, thanks to continuous technologies innovation and cutting edge gaming solutions, can reach a market positioning which allows to seize every business opportunity worldwide.

Compared to its competitors which are typically focused on specific sectors of the business or on stages of the value chain, the Group takes advantage of its market positioning that allows to seize every business opportunity in every geographical area due to a continuous technological innovation and cutting edge gaming solutions.

Today, Lottomatica Group is the only operator in the gaming market that is able to offer a full range of services to private and institutional clients (such as federal and national governments).

In the area of online, instant, and traditional lotteries, the Group has a leading position worldwide in terms of overall wagers. Through its subsidiary GTECH, acquired in 2006 , which was the second largest buyout ever secured by an Italian company in the US, it is currently a worldwide leading operator in the area of technological solutions for lotteries and gaming.

Segments

During the period the Group divided its operations into four segments that represents separate operating units, which are managed and organised according to the nature of the products and services they deliver.

Lottomatica Italia.
The Group operates in the Italian regulated gaming market, as both sole State distributor for games such as the Lotto, traditional and instant lotteries, and as a licensed operator, thus in a competitive market, for games such as sports betting, gaming machines, interactive games and services supplied through its subsidiary Lottomatica Italia Servizi (LIS).

GTECH Lotteries.
Through GTECH, the Group provides gaming operators with a wide range of services, technologies and products for online instant and traditional lotteries, managed under state concessions. Gaming solutions The Group manages and provides solutions, products, services, terminals, and systems for video lotteries, slot machines, videos and systems for the commercial gaming market.

GTECH G2.
Through GTECH the Group offers digital and multichannel gaming products including sports betting, lotteries, bingo, poker, casino games, and skill games ; regarding the sports betting market, GTECH provides solutions for real-time transaction management systems.