Carlton has previously expressed its intent to step away from the gaming industry, but this year recorded bumper financial results in which poker machine venues were its biggest source of revenue.
The Blues posted a whopping net operating profit of $3,390,993 for 2022, following a big increase in membership and the largest average home crowd (49,784) in the .
Carlton has previously expressed its intent to step away from the gaming industry, but this year recorded bumper financial results in which poker machine venues were its biggest source of revenue
But the club’s biggest stream of income comes from its 300 gaming machines which contributed $20,185,589 to Carlton’s coffers
But the club’s biggest stream of income comes from its 300 gaming machines which contributed $20,185,589 to Carlton’s coffers.
Pokies losses in Victorian pubs and clubs have reached extraordinary levels over the last decade with data from the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulator showing the state’s poorest suburbs were over-represented.
Many clubs have walked away from the gaming industry, including Hawthorn, Melbourne and the the Western Bulldogs, selling their poker machines to have a more positive impact on their local communities.
In 2020, Carlton announced they were getting closer to exiting the lucrative industry, though it is still unclear when they’ll put a stop to the rivers of gold that have flowed into Princes Park.
In 2020, Carlton announced they were getting closer to exiting the lucrative industry, though it is still unclear when they’ll put a stop to the rivers of gold that have flowed into Princes Park
Melbourne Demons posted a tidy $3.5million profit for 2022 after winning the AFLW premiership and the 2021 AFL premiership.
The club’s operating profit includes a $1.4 million increase on last year in part due to a $3.5 million increase in match receipts and a $2.2 million increase in membership income.
Demons chief executive Gary Pert said the club was happy to have moved away from its reliance on the gaming industry after selling off the Bentleigh Club in August.
Demons chief executive Gary Pert (pictured) said the club was happy to have moved away from its reliance on the gaming industry after selling off the Bentleigh Club in August
‘With record membership, 토토사이트 a full suite of commercial partners, cash and investments assets exceeding $36 million, no debt and healthy profits, Melbourne members and supporters can be proud the club is in its strongest-ever off-field position,’ Pert said.
However, Radio personality Tom Elliot, who is also a Carlton supporter, has questioned why clubs owning pokies is a bad thing when the league rakes in millions from sports betting sponsorships.
‘I find this unbelievably hypocritical,’ Elliot said on 3AW on Thursday.’First poker machines are legal. If adults want to play them I don’t see why it’s the job of Richard Goyder or anybody else to stop them from doing that.’
‘Secondly, the AFL gets millions upon millions of dollars from sponsorship with the likes of Sportsbet.
‘How they can sit there and sign – I think they signed a five-year deal with Sportsbet not that long ago – and say that’s OK, we’ll get tens of millions of dollars out of that but criticise clubs that earn money from poker machines is utterly beyond me.’
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