{"id":105691,"date":"2017-11-20T08:15:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T13:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/?p=105691"},"modified":"2017-11-21T18:36:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T23:36:27","slug":"part-1-quebec-lotteries-general-decline-explosion-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depquebec.com\/en\/part-1-quebec-lotteries-general-decline-explosion-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 1 – Quebec Lotteries: General Decline, Explosion Online"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s been over five years now since Loto-Qu\u00e9bec started selling online lottery, a move that initially sparked great concern among retailers.<\/em><\/h6>\n
So five years later, where are we? As part of our SPECIAL FEATURE LOTO-QU\u00c9BEC, FIVE YEARS OF LOTTERY ONLINE, DepQu\u00e9bec takes a deep look at the phenomenon throughout the week to assess its various impacts on brick-and-mortar retailers.\u00a0<\/em><\/h6>\n
Today, in the first part of this series, we look at the explosion of online sales.<\/em><\/h6>\n
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Yes it’s true, you’re right: at still around 2%, they are still quite modest compared to in-store lottery sales.<\/p>\n

But don’t be fooled by appearances.<\/p>\n

While in-store sales in general have been struggling over the past 10 years in Quebec, online sales are experiencing a meteoric rise of nearly 40% per year and this, for the past three years.<\/p>\n

And all signs tend to show that this trend is accelerating … quite seriously!<\/p>\n

The slow decline of lottery sales<\/h5>\n

Some may be surprised to hear it but lotteries in Quebec are in decline. A slow but steady decline.<\/p>\n

The problem is simple: people aren’t buying as much as they used too, period.<\/p>\n

Loto-Qu\u00e9bec uses a polished language when talking about a “mature” market, but when you look hard on the numbers, it is rather a widespread and merciless decline that we are witnessing.<\/p>\n

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Nominal lottery sales in 2017 are down just 4.3% from 10 years earlier, in 2007, but this rather low figure hides a darker reality. When taking into account inflation (14.31%) as well as population growth (9.12%), the actual real decline is rather 30.35% or a steady 3% per year over the past 10 years!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Online lottery sales in full swing<\/h5>\n

But while lotteries in generally are going down, those sold online have the wind in their sails.<\/p>\n

After digging quite extensively through pages of Loto-Qu\u00e9bec’s annual reports over the past five years, DepQu\u00e9bec<\/strong> has finally been able to crunch online lottery sales figures since 2012, figures that were validated by Loto-Qu\u00e9bec but were never clearly been disclosed per se, since the corporation would rather stick to total online sales (casino and lottery), to casino sales or sometimes, provides a figure here and there, but no clear table.<\/p>\n

What they show basically is an incredible growth of sales: on average, they have increased quite spectacularly by 37% year over year over the past three years.<\/p>\n

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EXCLUSIVE: REVENUES FROM LOTO-QU\u00c9BEC ONLINE SALES SINCE 2012 (in $ Million)<\/strong><\/h6>\n

\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
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Lottery<\/center><\/th>
Casino<\/center><\/th>
Total<\/center><\/th>
% of Lotteries \/
\nonline sales<\/center><\/th>
Annual Increase<\/center><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
2012-2013<\/td>
7.1<\/strong><\/center><\/td>
23.4<\/center><\/td>
30.5<\/strong><\/center><\/td>
23%<\/center><\/td>
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2013-2014<\/td>
16.0<\/strong><\/center><\/td>
25.9<\/center><\/td>
41.9<\/strong><\/center><\/td>
38%<\/center><\/td>
125%<\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2014-2015<\/td>
19.0<\/strong><\/center><\/td>
29.9<\/center><\/td>
48.9<\/strong><\/center><\/td>
39%<\/center><\/td>
19%<\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2015-2016<\/td>
30.6<\/strong><\/center><\/td>
35.6<\/center><\/td>
66.2<\/strong><\/center><\/td>
46%<\/center><\/td>
61%<\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2016-2017<\/td>
40.2<\/strong><\/center><\/td>
45.7<\/center><\/td>
85,9<\/strong><\/center><\/td>
47%<\/center><\/td>
31%<\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017-2018
\n(6 months only)<\/td>
33.2<\/strong><\/center><\/td>
41.2<\/center><\/td>
74.4<\/strong><\/center><\/td>
45%<\/center><\/td>
45%<\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TOTAL<\/right><\/td>
146.1<\/strong><\/center><\/td>
201.7<\/strong><\/center><\/td>
347.8<\/strong><\/center><\/td>
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AVER.: 37% \/ YEAR
\nFROM 2014-17<\/center><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/p>\n

As seen in the table above:<\/p>\n