Snaitech: 'Forget the game sector after reopening'

"We learn with bewilderment that the draft of the DL Reopening, released yesterday, does not mention the reopening of the legal gaming shops. From March 2020 to today, the gaming points have observed almost 300 days of closure, this despite having adopted all the principals and the safety devices necessary to ensure the protection of the health of employees and customers. Furthermore, we must not forget that our stores have a large average size and by type of activity have much lower risk profiles than other commercial activities, already reopened time ago". This was stated in a note by Fabio Schiavolin, CEO of Snaitech. "We note that in the draft Decree there are many activities, such as gyms, swimming pools, congresses, amusement parks and spas,but not the legal game points, which, I repeat, are adequate and ready to guarantee maximum safety - continues Schiavolin -. The closures are bringing cinema managers to their knees, undermining the sustainability of a supply chain made up of 12 thousand points of sale and which employs a total of 60 thousand workers. This crisis is also the object of specific attention by the Undersecretary with Delegation for the Games, Durigon: we are also talking about enormous damage to the Treasury, which recorded lost revenues of over 5 billion euros. Not to mention that the closures are favoring the proliferation of illegal gaming activities, as repeatedly stressed by the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor, Federico Cafiero De Raho, and emerged from the checks carried out by the police and the Customs and Monopoly Agency "."Finally, I would like to underline that the criterion adopted for the selection of reopenings is based on the product categories and not, as it should be, on the evaluation of the safeguards and safety measures that can be adopted. This choice, in addition to penalizing sectors like ours, is not even internationally aligned. Let's take, for example, our experience in Germany where gaming points can carry out their activities in continuity with other public establishments by virtue of the security guarantees that they can offer on a par with other merchandise activities. An objective and univocal criterion. The rules of sanitation of the environments, social distancing, the methods of use without long stay in closed environments,these are all provisions that our stores have been preparing to offer for several months. Discrimination against legal gambling is an inequity that the Government has a duty to address, both in an emergency and definitively, with a reform that guarantees companies, investors and workers to be able to operate safely and respect the rules to be adopted. part of everyone ". Snaitech is one of the main operators in Italy in the legal gaming sector. The company is active in the Betting Retail sector (with a market share of 18.7%), in the amusement machine sector (14.9% of the market) and in that of online gaming and betting (with an overall share of 10.3%).both in emergency and definitively, with a reform that guarantees companies, investors and workers to be able to operate safely and respect the rules by everyone. "Snaitech is one of the main operators in Italy in the legal gaming sector. The company is active in the Betting Retail sector (with a market share of 18.7%), in that of amusement machines (14.9% of the market) and in that of online games and betting (with an overall share of 10.3%).both in emergency and definitively, with a reform that guarantees companies, investors and workers to be able to operate safely and respect the rules by everyone. "Snaitech is one of the main operators in Italy in the legal gaming sector. The company is active in the Betting Retail sector (with a market share of 18.7%), in that of amusement machines (14.9% of the market) and in that of online games and betting (with an overall share of 10.3%).in that of amusement machines (14.9% of the market) and in that of online games and betting (with an overall share of 10.3%).in that of amusement machines (14.9% of the market) and in that of online games and betting (with an overall share of 10.3%).