The Casinos Austria AG (CASAG) operates 12 gaming houses in Austria and holds international participation in luck play enterprises. The associated companies of the corporation are world-wide active. The seat of the enterprise is in Vienna, at the struggle race in the palace Ephrussi.

The enterprise

The casinos of the 1934 created Austrian Casino AG were taken over 1967 by the Austrian gaming houses AG - which was umbenbannt 1985 on Casinos Austria AG. The enterprise is considered as one of the largest Austrian taxpayers.

To the world-wide active Casinos Austria group belong at present to 74 Casinos under others in Copenhagen, Prague, Johannesburg, Vienna, Brussels and starting from 2007 also in Belgrade. Per year visit over 17 million guests a play enterprise of Casinos Austria. In the year 2004 with 9.200 coworkers a conversion of altogether scarcely 1 billion euro was obtained.

Inland came 2001 still 2.8 million guests, for 2005 the number of 2.3 million was published. The Casinomanagement announced the dismantling of 150 persons employed, with first 215 it to more will be however far. Those are more than 10 per cent of the 1,800 Austrian coworkers. This negative development is to be due to turning many players to the new play possibilities in the Internet, which makes the course unnecessary in the personnel-intensive Casino and which up-yields past monopolistic position. The Marketingstrategie strengthens therefore the experience value of the Casinobesuchs with and meeting frameworks.

The average Austrian Croupier is earned monthly between 3.000 and 4.000 euro 43 years and. The purchases of its foreign colleagues are usually far lower. The salary consisted so far of approximately 20 per cent basic salary, further 30 per cent of participation in the bringing in results in the play tables and automats as well as scarcely to the 50 per cent from the so-called Cagnotte - that pot, which the players feed by means of tip -. 2006 will become abolished this system, the salaries on fixer basis with a profit sharing at the total result to be compound. So far each Croupier had a certain number of points, after which the salary was calculated. The value of the points constantly sank in the past years.

In order to outline the costs of a Casino, exemplarily the new Casino Belgrade is aforementioned: Planned investments at a value of 30 millions euro, half for the national license for the play enterprise in the next ten years. The other 15 million euro flow into the location and the equipment. The largest Investment into a Casinostandort was the last around and development of the Casinos in bathing in the years 1992 to 1995 with approx. 70 millions euro.

Shareholder structure

The owners of the shares of the not quoted enterprise are:

• 33.6% - Largest shareholder (2005) is the Medial participation GmbH - their largest shareholders Leipnik Lundenburger, Raiffeisen Austria, the Danube insurance and the UNIQA insurance are.
• 33.2% - Coin Austria.
• 16.0% MTB private donation
• 5.3% banking house Schellhammer & Schattera
• 5.0% private donation Josef Melchart
• 1.9% Dkfm. Dr. Leo Wallner present general manager
• 5.0% strewing possession

Associated companies

• Casinos Austria AG - parent company with 12 Austrian Casinos and shareholders of numerous foreign participation. Conversion 2004: about 300 millions euro.
• Casinos Austria international enterprise to planning, establishment and enterprise of Casinos. At present (2005) 62 locations in Europe, America, Africa, Asia, Australia and on the Weltmeereren. Conversion 2004:704 million euro.
• Austrian Lotterien Ges.m.b.H. - Brieflotterie, number Lotto, Austrian Klassenlotterie.
• Entertainment GmbH sport bets: tipp3, win2day.at, WINWIN.
• Casinos Austria catering trade of enterprise Ges.m.b.H. - CAGAST catering trade.
• Casinos Austria Security Technology CAST safety technology.
• Congress Casino bathing Betriebsges.m.b.H. - Casino bathing with congress center.

Casinos in Austria

All year round: Bathe, Bregenz, Graz, Innsbruck, Kleinwalsertal, Linz, Salzburg, sea-field, Velden, Vienna.

Winter and summer season: Bath Gastein,

Sources, Related links

• Casinos Austria English
• Casinos Austria Website
• Business paper
• News networld
• Viennese newspaper

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