Tag: French gambling industry
French gaming revenue ahead of Italy and Spain
July 18, 2013
From iGaming Business – The French online gaming market generated €798m in gross gaming revenues in 2012, compared with €749m for Italy and €117m for Spain, which regulated its online gaming and betting market in June 2012, France’s igaming regulator ARJEL announced on Tuesday. Each country has its own iGaming specificities, online poker and casino dominate the Italian industry, Spaniards favour online sportsbetting while in France, a third of the country’s GGRs comes from online horseracing parimutuel, reflecting the historical strength of the activity and the main operator PMU. ARJEL also published the results of a survey of some 150,000…