Figures released this week show that competition from ever more appealing and sophisticated gaming machines in arcades and the increasing popularity of online gaming have caused profits at Dutch state-monopoly Holland Casino to fall to just €7.7m in 2009, down from over €100m only four years earlier.
Holland Casino narrowly avoided recording a loss for the year as a result of cost cutting measures which saw its workforce cut by nearly 10% during 2009, although six [...]
