Lottomatica to buy GTech in $4.8 bln deal (Reuters)

RSS News User · 11th January 2006, 04:30 AM

<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/business/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060110/bs_nm/leisure_deagostini_gtech_dc"><img src="http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/nm/20060110/2006_01_10t085314_450x323_us_leisure_deagostini_gt ech.jpg?x=130&y=93&sig=9xO4a9zMqRA00MJyXFk IXQ--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="GTECH lottery content is seen in a corporate handout. Italy's De Agostini is set to buy the U.S. lottery operator, GTech Holdings Corp, in a deal worth over $4 billion, a financial source said on Tuesday. (Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Italy's Lottomatica said on
Tuesday it would buy 100 percent of U.S. lottery company GTech
for 4 billion euros ($4.8 billion) in cash to create
the world's biggest lottery operator.</p><br clear=all>

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