La Fleur’s 2001 World Lottery Almanac. The 432-page La Fleur’s 2001 World Lottery Almanac is the complete reference source on the $140 billion worldwide lottery industry. Section I features a “Fast Facts” compilation of data on North American lotteries, including startup history, guide to product mix, government profits earmarking, lotto matrices, worldwide lotto matrices, top lotto jackpots and video lottery terminal guide. Section II features four-page profiles on 38 U.S., five Canadian and six Australasian lotteries. Each profile traces the lottery’s calendar 2000 versus 1999 sales by game (instant, 3-digit, 4-digit, lotto, cash lotto, keno, VLTs, niche games), its calendar 2000, 1999 and 1998 instant sales by price point ($1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $7, $10) and its projected fiscal 2001 versus fiscal 2000 ad budgets by media and by game. Each profile tracks the lottery’s five-year annual sales by game from fiscal 1996 through fiscal 2000. Each profile features the number and the percentage of total, instant and online retailers by type of business, plus each retailer’s fiscal 2000 total, instant and online sales. Section III is divided into seven chapters: worldwide lottery sales; fiscal 2000 sales, profit and expense analysis; the retailer network; ad expenditures; historical analysis; contractor survey; and calendar 2000 U.S. lotteries’ weekly sales by game. The worldwide lottery sales chapter tracks calendar 2000 versus 1999 game sales in local currency and converted to U.S. currency for approximately 200 lotteries worldwide, including rankings by total and per capita sales for instant, lotto, total, keno, toto and draw games. The contractor guide features a monetary guide to U.S. lotteries’ instant ticket and online system contracts. In addition, there is a worldwide guide to instant printers and online system vendors’ contracts by lottery organization. The appendix includes a glossary of terms, lottery address directory and supplier directory.
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 G
