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New study indicates that the size of the German betting market will grow from currently Euro 2.2 billion to about Euro 5 billion by 2010.

Scientific Games reports that its German subsidiary Scientific Games Honsel GmbH was awarded two contracts with Toto-Lotto Niedersachsen.

International News Brief: After a slow start, the gambling business in Germany has begun to boom. The growth will likely be accelerated by an expected liberalization in the sports betting market and the Soccer World Cup in 2006.

GTECH Global Services Corporation has signed a five-year contract with Westdeutsche Lotterie GmbH & Co. OHG, the operator of online and instant-ticket lottery games in the German state of Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Scientific Games has completed the acquisition of all the outstanding shares of Printpool Honsel GmbH, the German company that is the instant ticket supplier to all of the sixteen lotteries in Germany.

GTECH Corporation has signed an agreement to provide a new online and instant lottery central system, point-of-sale terminals, and ongoing services to Lotterie-Treuhandgesellschaft mbH Thuringen in Germany.

International News Brief: Germans will nervously clutch their lottery tickets on Wednesday in front of the televised draw for the biggest jackpot in the country's history, almost 25 million euros

GTECH Holdings and the owners of privately-held Gauselmann Group have entered into an agreement whereby GTECH will acquire a 50 percent controlling equity position in the Atronic group of companies owned by Gauselmann.

Scientific Games Corporation has entered into an agreement to purchase all of the outstanding shares of Printpool Honsel GmbH, a German company which is the supplier of instant tickets to all of the 16 lotteries which operate in Germany.

International News Brief: A German man who failed to settle a gambling debt called police after his dentures were seized as collateral, police said on Thursday.