With “It Could Be You!” It’s Back To The Future For UK Lotto’s Allwyn In Q2

£9.7 billion Allwyn International, owners of the UK National Lottery, reviving the lotto’s famous “It Could Be You!” slogan, have just presented their Q2 results showing a respectable six percent growth in both GGR and Adjusted EBITDA.

GGR for Allwyn, owned by Czech billionaire Karel Komárek, was €2.27bn (£1.96bn) for the quarter, ending June 30. Adjusted EBITDA was €362m (£313.93m), with a reported 36.4 percent margin.

Allwyn International, part of Komárek’s holding KKCG Group, was recently valued at €11.2 billion (£9.7bn), when Komárek, a former partner of Russia’s Gazprom state energy company, sold a 4.27 percent stake in his gambling omnichannel to a Czech investment fund called J&T ARCH.   

Slugfest

As well as operating the UK Lottery, through its Allwyn Entertainment arm, Allwyn International is the leading lotto company in Europe, running lotteries in Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece and Cyprus–through Novibet and Stoiximan–and the North American assets of  Camelot, the long-standing licence holder of the British lottery it replaced in February 2023 after a legal slugfest that has yet to be fully settled.

Allwyn International CEO Robert Chvátal hailed the Q2 performance as: “Enhancing the customer proposition and player experience [and] continued successful execution of our growth strategies.”

He had particular praise for the UK market, which he said delivered 14 percent growth, year-on-year, on “a constant currency basis”.

Allwyn’s digital operations were a key driver, affirmed Chvátal in a company statement, with online GGR surging 16 percent, y-o-y, to some 42 percent of total GGR.

All The Sixes

H1 revenue for the multi-national gamesters was also up by six percent, to €4.52 billion (£3.91bn); while Adjusted EBITDA nudged up four percent to €728 million (£631.24m), compared to the first half of 2024.

In a major upgrade of the UK Lottery offering during the financial half-year, Allwyn installed new terminals for some 8,000 retail partners.

Added Chvátal: “I am very pleased with our continued progress and believe we are well-placed for the remainder of 2025.”