La Fleur’s 2000 European Lottery Abstract - Millennium Edition features historical profiles of Europe’s 70-plus national, provincial, regional and private lotteries, including annual sales by game, government profits, prizes, game details, retailer network data, ad budgets and vendor contracts. The book traces lottery sales by game in local currency and converted to U.S. dollars from 1996 through 1999. Each profile provides a detailed historical account of the lottery organization’s startup. The Statistical Section tracks each lottery and each European country lottery’s sales by game in local currency and converted to U.S. dollars for rankings by total sales and per capita sales. There is a separate section providing the list of key personnel and their titles. For easy reference, each lottery’s full address, phone, fax and website address are listed on the first page of the profile. There is a summary of vital statistics, including the year established, organizational type and use of lottery profits. The second page of the profile provides a four-year summary of lottery sales by game, including passive, instant, numbers, lotto, spiel, Oddset, toto, Internet wagering, TV bingo and other niche products. These sales are listed in local currency. There is a separate table converting the lotteries’ 1999 sales by game into U.S. currency, including total sales and per capita sales by game. Each game for the lottery is described in the Game Mechanics summary, including the game’s generic class, year begun and ticket price. A retailer section in each profile provides the breakdown of the lottery retailer network by business class, including the number of lottery kiosks, book stores, convenience stores, gas stations, merchandise stores, tobacconists, pharmacies, post offices, restaurant/bars and other. The advertising section in each profile provides information on advertising expenditures by media, including TV, radio, printed media, POS, direct mail, draws and sponsorships.
About the Author
Teresa La Fleur
Biography
Teresa (“Terri”) E. La Fleur, president of TLF Publications, Inc., is a 41-year-old native Washingtonian. She attended University of Maryland where she graduated with a double degree. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism and a Bachelor of Art degree in English. Ms. La Fleur began her journalistic career as a intern for a local newspaper, the Montgomery Journal, while attending college.
Her first editorship was with Public Gaming Magazine, a monthly trade periodical on the U.S. lottery industry. She served as editor of PGRI Institute's magazines and newsletters from 1980-1982.
She then joined Gaming & Wagering Business, based in New York City, as a correspondent and columnist. During her next 10 years with IGWB, she was promoted to associate and then senior editor, specializing on the lottery industry. She resigned from her post as senior editor in 1993.
Ms. La Fleur is widely quoted in the electronic and print media, including such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and Advertising Age. She has also appeared on nationally televised talk shows to discuss lottery trends, including ABC News Nightline with Ted Koppel, The Wall Street Journal Report, ABC News, CBS News and an A&E cable documentary.
In 1990, Ms. La Fleur launched TLF Publications, Inc., of which she is president and CEO. The firm specializes in the gathering and disseminating of information on the worldwide lottery industry. The company's first publication was The 1990 Compendium of Lottery Statistics.
In its first nine years of operation, TLF Publications has published more than three dozen books on the lottery and gambling industry, including the World Lottery Almanac, the European Lottery Abstract, Australasian Lottery Abstract, Principles of Contemporary Lottery Marketing and the World Gambling Abstract. In 1993, TLF Publications launched the monthly magazine, La Fleur’s Lottery World.
In 1996, TLF Publications hosted its first lottery conference called the 1st Annual La Fleur’s Lottery World Symposium. The symposium is an annual industry event which is always held in Washington, D.C. Approximately 400 lottery representatives from around the world attended the 1999 symposium.
La Fleur is also a popular speaker at industry conferences and has made presentations on gambling for newspaper editors, the 1993 National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) convention, the 1991,1993 and 1995 Intertoto Lottery conventions, the 1994 AILE Congress/Paris, SciNet 1994, the 1995 North American Association of State & Provincial Lotteries and the 1993 Wertheim Schroeder financial conference for institutional investors.
Mrs. La Fleur is married with two children, Byron (10) and Claire (7). Her spouse, Bruce La Fleur, is co-publisher of La Fleur’s Lottery World and vice president of TLF Publications, Inc.
Bruce La Fleur
Biography
Bruce A. La Fleur, executive vice president of TLF Publications, Inc. and co-publisher of La Fleur’s Lottery World, is a 41 year old native Washingtonian. He attended University of Maryland where he graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.
Bruce spent 10 years in the production department of The Washington Post newspaper and two years as a real estate asset manager for Baltimore Gas & Electric. The printing production experience gained at The Washington Post and the management skills learned at Baltimore Gas & Electric dovetailed perfectly with the skills needed to help an infant business.
Bruce joined TLF Publications in 1992 to assist his wife Terri in running the business. Since then, the company has dramatically increased its list of publications. In 1992, TLF Publications introduced the 1st edition of La Fleur’s European Lottery Abstract. In 1993, Bruce created a new line of database products based on the research prepared for the World Lottery Almanac, World Gambling Abstract and European Lottery Abstract.
In September 1993, Bruce & Terri introduced the monthly news publication, La Fleur’s Lottery World. The pair serve as co-publishers and together write and design the magazine.
In 1996, TLF Publications hosted their first lottery conference called the 1st Annual La Fleur’s Lottery World Symposium at the Crystal Gateway Marriott outside Washington, D.C. There were 270 representatives in attendance at the Symposium, which featured over 35 seminars and panels over the three-day event. The symposium is now an annual conference held in Washington, D.C.
The La Fleurs are the parents of two children: Byron (10) and Claire (7). Both kids are active participants in their parents’ business. Their duties including labeling, stamping and causing havoc in the office.
