Tipp24 AG restructures business
Dec 30, 2008 1:51 PM
Tipp24 AG / Strategic Company Decision Release of an Ad hoc announcement according to § 15 WpHG, transmitted by DGAP - a company of EquityStory AG. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tipp24 AG plans to restructure its business fields as of 1 January 2009. This will include pooling the majority of its activities in connection with brokering or offering lottery products with MyLotto24 Ltd. and its subsidiaries. MyLotto24 Ltd. has been operating in the UK since 2007. This move concerns the brokerage of state-run German lottery products, the offerings of subsidiaries Ventura24 in Spain and Puntogiocco24 in Italy, as well as the current activities of the British subsidiaries. However, Tipp24 AG will continue to broker the German class lotteries NKL and SKL. By pooling its gaming activities with MyLotto24 in the UK, the Group is laying the foundations for a positive development of its foreign business. Tipp24 AG is also drawing the consequences from the German State Treaty on Gaming, which it believes contravenes valid law. The second stage of this Treaty comes into effect on 1 January 2009 and bans the brokerage of state-run lotteries via the Internet. Tipp24 AG hopes that after the legal situation has been settled in its favour it can begin its activities from Germany again as swiftly as possible. The Executive Board of Tipp24 AG has decided to focus in future on the expansion of its Tipp24Games division and to identify and acquire new business models in Germany and Europe. The listed company Tipp24 AG has been operating profitably since 2002 and contributed well over 250 million euros to German tax revenues in the years 2007 and 2008 alone. The company employs 170 people in Germany. 30.12.2008 Financial News transmitted by DGAP ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Language: English Issuer: Tipp24 AG Straßenbahnring 11-13 20251 Hamburg Deutschland Phone: +49 (0)40 325533-0 Fax: +49 (0)40 325533-77 E-mail: office@tipp24.de Internet: www.tipp24-ag.de ISIN: DE0007847147 WKN: 784714 Listed: Regulierter Markt in Frankfurt (Prime Standard); Freiverkehr in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, München, Stuttgart End of News DGAP News-Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------