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Lottoland court win just the ticket for Manly sponsorship
By Patrick Hatch
August 18, 2019 — 11.55pm
Online gambling outfit Lottoland has extended its sponsorship of the Manly Sea Eagles for another year in a deal worth close to $500,000 dollars.
Lottoland's three-year $1 million sponsorship of the club, which includes naming rights for Brookvale Oval, was to expire at the end of this season and looked on shaky ground as Lottoland came under sustained attack from competitors and government regulators.
But Lottoland Australia chief executive Luke Brill said the group exercised its option to extend the contract for another year over the weekend following a favourable decision in the NSW Supreme Court late on Friday that gave the Gibraltar-based company certainty about its future in Australia.
The sponsorship deal, to be announced on Monday, has been expanded to also include Manly coach Des Hasler and branding of his coaching box.
"This just underlines our commitment to remaining in Australia," Brill said. "With the ruling going our way, we have some certainty, and this sponsorship with Manly shows we're putting our money where our mouth is."
On Friday, Justice John Sackar overturned a ruling by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) that Lottoland's products, which function like traditional lotteries but select the winning numbers based on the outcome of financial market indices, were illegal.
Lottoland introduced those products at the start of the year after the federal government outlawed another suit of it products that let punters bet on the outcome of traditional lotteries.
The company has faced a barrage of criticism and attacks from the Tabcorp-owned Tatts, and newsagents, which say Lottoland's "fake" lottery service was eroding the tens of millions of dollars in tax revenue that licensed lotteries generate.
Lottoland court win just the ticket for Manly sponsorship
By Patrick Hatch
August 18, 2019 — 11.55pm
Online gambling outfit Lottoland has extended its sponsorship of the Manly Sea Eagles for another year in a deal worth close to $500,000 dollars.
Lottoland's three-year $1 million sponsorship of the club, which includes naming rights for Brookvale Oval, was to expire at the end of this season and looked on shaky ground as Lottoland came under sustained attack from competitors and government regulators.
But Lottoland Australia chief executive Luke Brill said the group exercised its option to extend the contract for another year over the weekend following a favourable decision in the NSW Supreme Court late on Friday that gave the Gibraltar-based company certainty about its future in Australia.
The sponsorship deal, to be announced on Monday, has been expanded to also include Manly coach Des Hasler and branding of his coaching box.
"This just underlines our commitment to remaining in Australia," Brill said. "With the ruling going our way, we have some certainty, and this sponsorship with Manly shows we're putting our money where our mouth is."
On Friday, Justice John Sackar overturned a ruling by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) that Lottoland's products, which function like traditional lotteries but select the winning numbers based on the outcome of financial market indices, were illegal.
Lottoland introduced those products at the start of the year after the federal government outlawed another suit of it products that let punters bet on the outcome of traditional lotteries.
The company has faced a barrage of criticism and attacks from the Tabcorp-owned Tatts, and newsagents, which say Lottoland's "fake" lottery service was eroding the tens of millions of dollars in tax revenue that licensed lotteries generate.
