Monday, September 01, 2008

OPAP set to bid for Turk lottery

"OPAP set to bid for Turk lottery

OPAP, Europe’s biggest betting firm, plans to bid for Turkey’s national lottery Milli Piyango in a joint venture with Turkish business groups, according to chief executive Christos Hadjiemmanuil.

“We want this project, we want to get into the largest market in southeast Europe, we have the ability to take over (the lottery) but we are not prepared to do it at any cost,” Hadjiemmanuil told Sunday’s Kathimerini in an interview."

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