WestSpiel

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Westdeutsche Spielbanken GmbH & Co. KG
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1976
Seat Duisburg , Germany
management Georg Lucht, Jochen Braun
Number of employees approx. 1,026
sales 94.459 million euros
Branch Operation of casinos
Website www.westspiel.de
As of December 31, 2017

The company WestSpiel (completely Westdeutsche Spielbanken GmbH & Co. KG ) is a casino operator in Germany based in Duisburg . The company is owned by the State of North Rhine-Westphalia through NRW.Bank . WestSpiel's share of the casino market in Germany is around 20 percent. From 2002 to 2012, the company published its own magazine, Casino live , published by Hoffmann and Campe . On May 8, 2018, the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia decided to privatize WestSpiel.

Locations

WestSpiel operates six casinos in Germany:

In 2012 WestSpiel's casinos had 1.13 million visitors.

WestSpiel intends to open the fifth casino in North Rhine-Westphalia in the Deutz district of Cologne .

history

The WestSpiel company was part of WestLB until 2002 . WestSpiel has been part of the NRW-Bank since WestLB was split up in 2002 into a commercial bank and NRW.Bank as the development bank.

With six casinos, around 1000 employees and almost one million visits a year, the WestSpiel Group is the leading company in the industry in Germany. The group includes the four NRW casinos in Aachen, Bad Oeynhausen, Dortmund-Hohensyburg and Duisburg as well as the casinos in Bremen and Bremerhaven.

WestSpiel operated the Kassel casino from the early 1990s until 2001. The new operator was SIM Spielbanken Investitions-Beteiligungs und Management GmbH & Co KG , a subsidiary of Deutsche Sporthilfe and Novomatic AG .

The subsidiary WestSpiel-Entertainment GmbH (WSE) was launched in 2002. WSE operates WestSpiel's gastronomy with restaurants, bars and catering. In addition, WSE organizes numerous events and concerts at the casino locations.

development

Development of gross gaming revenue

GROSS PLAYER INCOME (BSE) IN T € 2017 2016 2015
Aachen         8,207           7,513           7.009  
Bad Oeynhausen         9,208           8,197           8,210  
Hohensyburg        23,559          23,808          24,755  
WestSpiel KG       40,974         39,518         39,973  
Duisburg        40,340          40.904          39,640  
WestSpiel NRW       81,314         80,422         79,613  
Bremen / Bremerhaven        13,145          11,622          10,375  
TOTAL       94,459         92,044   89,988  

Overall, gross gaming revenues (BSE) increased in the 2017 financial year. Gross gaming revenues of EUR 94.5 million (+ 2.6%; 2016: EUR 92.0 million) were generated at all six locations.

Development of the casino tax

PLAYBANK TAX IN T € 2017 2016 2015
Aachen         3,693           3,381           3,154  
Bad Oeynhausen         4.144           3,688           3,694  
Hohensyburg        11,457          11,595          12,115  
WestSpiel KG       19,294         18,664         18,964  
Duisburg        20,687          20,997          20,302  
WestSpiel NRW       39,981         39,661         39,266  
Bremen / Bremerhaven         3.814           3,254           2,594  
TOTAL       43,795         42,915         41,859  

In the 2017 financial year, WestSpiel paid 43.8 million euros (+ 2.1%; 2016: 42.9 million euros) to the public sector through the casino levy. That is around 46.4% of gross gaming revenues.

Development of visits

VISITS TO T 2017 2016 2015
Aachen              87                83                81  
Bad Oeynhausen              94                81                81  
Hohensyburg            259              278              299  
WestSpiel KG           439             441             461  
Duisburg            377              381              381  
WestSpiel NRW            816              822             842  
Bremen / Bremerhaven            120              110              106  
TOTAL           936             932             948  

Around 936,000 visits were counted at the six locations in Aachen, Bad Oeynhausen, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Dortmund-Hohensyburg and Duisburg in 2017. The number of visits is thus slightly above the level of the previous year (+ 0.4%; 2016: 932,000).

Development of the number of employees

EMPLOYEES as of December 31st

Number of people

2017 2016 2015
TOTAL         1,026           1,066           1,057  

Sales development

Sales development 2007 to 2012
Sales in millions of euros
2007
  
 176
2008
  
 130
2009
  
 125
2010
  
 109
2012
  
 107

The year 1998 ended with a turnover of 351 million DM in the six casinos (Aachen, Bad Oeynhausen, Hohensyburg, Bremen, Kassel and Berlin). The year 2000 was the most successful year with sales of 422 million DM. This year, DM 338 million went to the municipalities in the form of a casino tax. In 2007, sales of EUR 176 million were achieved. In 2008, the WestSpiel players brought sales of 130 million euros. In 2009 the turnover was 125 million euros. This enabled it to keep its market share of twenty percent in Germany. In 2010, 1.16 million visitors turned over 109.225 million euros. Of this, 60.583 million euros were paid to the casino tax . The houses with the highest sales, Dortmund and Duisburg, accounted for almost 75 percent of sales. In 2014, Westspiel was only able to generate a surplus through the controversial sale of two Warhol paintings for a total of 111.4 million euros. 866,000 people visited the NRW casinos, half as many as ten years earlier.

criticism

In 1998, tampering with counting money in the Bad Oeynhausen casino was uncovered. In addition to employees of the casino also will finance officials have been involved. In this context, WestSpiel demanded DM 1.9 million from the accused as compensation. Furthermore, private detectives in Switzerland are said to have carried out inquiries at banks in order to discover the suspect's black accounts.

In the early 2000s, gambling addicts sued WestSpiel for damages because the company had failed to comply with its access control obligations. The visitors had applied for a self-lock for casinos for their own protection . As a result of these lawsuits, the Federal Court of Justice ruled that the casinos are liable to recourse if they do not control access to the gaming area.

In June 2008 there was a strike by the croupiers at the Duisburg casino . The reason for this was the wages for employees that had not increased since 1996. In addition, the employees complain about a non-transparent distribution of the Tronc . For many years this was not a problem as the visitors gave enough money to the Tronc. However, since the decline in the gaming sector, cash revenues have been falling. As a result, the income of the employees fell within the scope of the collective agreement . In connection with the restructuring of WestSpiel in 2010, works councils from WestSpiel are said to have been "bought".

In 2014 Westspiel had two paintings by Andy Warhol auctioned at Christie's auction house in New York, which previously belonged to the Aachen casino . The pictures Triple Elvis and Four Marlons changed hands for a total of 151.5 million US dollars; of this, 16.1 million were premium payments to the auction house. Westspiel intends to use the proceeds to restore loss-making casinos. Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters criticized the sale of cultural assets "in order to plug holes in the household".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Buske: Playing with face down cards . In: Westfälische Rundschau . February 25, 2009 ( HTML [accessed September 30, 2012]).
  2. ↑ a b NRW.Bank (Ed.): Annual Report 2002 . 2003, p. 78 ( online [PDF; 2.0 MB ; accessed on September 30, 2012]).
  3. ↑ a b Westspiel casinos generate less gaming revenue again . In: Aachener Nachrichten . April 12, 2011 ( HTML [accessed September 30, 2012]).
  4. ↑ Hoffmann and Campe and WestSpiel Gruppe launch 'Casino live' . In: New Business . January 3, 2002 ( HTML [accessed September 30, 2012]).
  5. ↑ NRW sells its casinos. In: WDR . May 8, 2018, archived from the original on May 13, 2018 ; accessed on July 7, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Fewer visitors, less revenue . Casino loses top spot. In: Neue Ruhr Zeitung . May 3, 2009 ( HTML [accessed September 30, 2012]).
  7. ↑ 5 years Casino Duisburg . We're not that plush. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . February 18, 2012 ( HTML [accessed December 13, 2012]).
  8. ↑ a b company website. Retrieved November 19, 2018 .
  9. ↑ This is where Cologne's casino is supposed to be . In: Bild (newspaper) . ( bild.de [accessed on March 31, 2016]).
  10. ↑ a b The Casino Gang . In: Der Spiegel . Issue 34/2001, August 20, 2001, p. 32–34 ( HTML [accessed September 30, 2012]).
  11. ↑ Nice location . In: Der Spiegel . Issue 20/1990, May 14, 1990 ( HTML [accessed October 1, 2012]).
  12. ^ City of Kassel (ed.): Kassel casino looks to an attractive future . August 7, 2001 ( HTML [accessed October 1, 2012]).
  13. ↑ Andreas Ulrich: Moment of suffering . In: Der Spiegel . Issue 50/1999, December 13, 1999 ( HTML [accessed October 1, 2012]).
  14. ↑ The ruble rolls into the NRW casino . In: Westfälische Rundschau . February 15, 2001 ( HTML ( memento of October 16, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on March 20, 2013] made available by Fachverband Glücksspiel ). The ruble rolls into the NRW-Casino ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.forum-gluecksspielsucht.de
  15. ↑ Dietmar Seher: Casinos are running out of luck . In: Neue Ruhr Zeitung . February 7, 2010 ( HTML [accessed October 1, 2012]).
  16. ↑ a b The operator Westspiel . In: Neue Ruhr Zeitung . July 14, 2009 ( HTML [accessed September 30, 2012]).
  17. ^ WestSpiel (ed.): Company . ( HTML [accessed September 30, 2012]).
  18. ↑ Rheinische Post October 27, 2015 p. B1: NRW casinos keep making losses
  19. ↑ Beate Balzli: Sniffing on your own . In: Der Spiegel . Issue 49/2001, December 3, 2001 ( HTML [accessed September 30, 2012]).
  20. ↑ Dietmar Hipp and Merlind Theile: Addicted and gambled away - money back . In: mirror online . December 29, 2006 ( HTML [accessed October 1, 2012]).
  21. ↑ Clemens von Frentz: Has gambling addiction been exploited? In: Manager Magazin . September 18, 2001 ( HTML [accessed October 1, 2012]).
  22. ↑ Casinos need better control of banned gambling addicts . In: mirror online . November 22, 2007 ( HTML [accessed on October 1, 2012] file number: Bundesgerichtshof III ZR 9/07).
  23. ↑ From the gaming table to the street . Croupiers strike. In: Westfälische Rundschau . June 24, 2008 ( HTML [accessed September 30, 2012]).
  24. ↑ Katja Sponholz: Croupiers are the casino losers . In: Westfälische Rundschau . August 27, 2008 ( HTML [accessed September 30, 2012]).
  25. ^ Klaus Buske and M. Kohlstadt: Casino Hohensyburg loses sales and visitors . In: Westfälische Rundschau . August 19, 2008 ( HTML [accessed September 30, 2012]).
  26. ↑ Dirk Berger: Westspiel is said to have bought casino works councils . In: Westfälische Rundschau . May 15, 2010 ( HTML [accessed September 30, 2012]).
  27. ↑ tagesschau.de: Record prices on the art market: just heated up or already overheated? ( Memento of December 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed December 5, 2014)
  28. ↑ Controversial sale from NRW: Warhol pictures bring 150 million dollars article in Spiegel Online from November 13, 2014