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By 2018, Sazka Group was the largest lottery group in Europe with national lottery operations in Greece, Italy, and
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Aricoma Group, which is where the company's investments in the information technology sector (aside from the two startups) have been concentrated since then. In the same year, it was announced that
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Republic. It also operates in Slovakia, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, France, Hungary, Ukraine, and Great Britain. In 2014, MND became active in the
326:, who had held the rights from 1994, pursued legal action against the Gambling Commission's decision. They subsequently withdrew their decision to appeal. At the end of 2022, it was announced that Allywn had taken over Camelot Group from the
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330:, thus becoming the operator of the National Lottery when the transaction was completed in February 2023. In early 2023, Allwyn also took over the Camelot Lottery Solutions Group, based in the United States, who is the operator of the
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business by becoming the majority shareholder of the formerly state-owned Czech lottery firm Sazka a.s. One year later, KKCG took over the remaining shares of Sazka a.s., effectively becoming its owner.
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