Thursday, January 3, 2019

Newgioco Continues to Gain Market Share in Italian Sports Betting Market

Source:  Newgioco Group, Inc. 12/20/18

Newgioco Group, Inc. ("Newgioco" or the "Company") (OTCQB: NWGI), today announced that the Company increased its share of the Italian sports betting market in November, according to a recent report of the leading gambling, betting, and gaming news agency AGIMEG - Agenzia Giornalistica sul Mercato del Gioco ("AGIMEG"). Newgioco is a vertically-integrated leisure gaming technology company, headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with fully licensed online and land-based gaming operations in Italy and Austria, and innovative betting technology platforms that provide bet processing for casinos and other gaming operators.

According to AGIMEG, the sports betting sector in Italy reached €148.5 million ($170 million) in Gross Gaming Revenues (GGR) for November 2018, an increase of approximately 1% year over year and approximately 11% month over month. Newgioco, through its wholly owned subsidiary Multigioco S.R.L ("Multigioco"), increased its market share rank (as a percent of GGR) to 22nd in November, up from 25th in the October ranking. Newgioco showed the 7th largest increase on the list, improving its share by 0.10% to a total of 0.49%.

Michele Ciavarella, CEO of Newgioco, said, "Our continued market share gains in Italian sports betting are driven by robust organic transaction growth in both our online sales channel and land-based retail sales channel. In Italy, Newgioco also continues to maintain strong market share in poker betting (rank 6th in October 2018) and has made a marked improvement in casino betting with GGR more than doubling on a year on year basis from about $295,000 in November 2017 to $664,000 in November 2018."

Company CFO Elizabeth MacLean added, "In addition to impressive growth in market share and revenues, we have recently begun to generate higher profits as a percentage of betting handle, resulting from the increased efficiency of our innovative betting technology platform. Newgioco's successful gaming business in Italy and strong leadership should provide a solid foundation for our expansion into the U.S. sports betting market through our leading edge technology platforms beginning in 2019."

About Newgioco Group, Inc.
Newgioco Group, Inc., together with its wholly-owned subsidiaries, is a vertically-integrated leisure gaming technology company, with fully licensed online and land-based gaming operations and innovative betting technology platforms that provide bet processing for casinos and other gaming operators. The Company conducts its business under the registered brand Newgioco primarily through its internet-based betting distribution network on its website, www.newgioco.it as well as retail neighborhood betting shops situated throughout Italy and Austria.
The Company offers its clients a full suite of leisure gaming products and services, such as sports betting, virtual sports, online casino, poker, bingo, interactive games and slots. Newgioco also owns and operates innovative Betting Platform Software through its subsidiary Odissea (www.odissea.at), providing both B2B and B2C bet processing for casinos, sports betting and other online and land-based gaming operators. Additional information is available on our corporate website at www.newgiocogroup.com.

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