France set to privatise lottery company - paper

The French government will privatise the national lottery company, La Francaise des Jeux, via a Bourse introduction next year, the Les Echos newspaper said in its latest edition. La Francaise des Jeux runs many games, such as the standard Lotto...

The French government will privatise the national lottery company, La Francaise des Jeux, via a Bourse introduction next year, the Les Echos newspaper said in its latest edition.

La Francaise des Jeux runs many games, such as the standard Lotto lottery, Keno, Millionaire, scratch card games and the Euromillions European lottery, which last week had a record pay-out of _144 million.

It will lose its monopoly in line with other national gaming companies as the sector is opened to competition with private firms such as Camelot Group Plc LOTT.UL or Ladbrokes Plc.

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