2013 Witnesses Record Ticket Sales For NH Lottery

In March 2013, over $16.9 million in Instant tickets were sold by the New Hampshire Lottery – a record selling figure for Instant tickets in the last 50 years. Executive Director of the New Hampshire Lottery, Charlie McIntyre stated that March was an excellent for Lotto ticket sales. He added that this month proved outstanding for New Hampshire since massive ticket sales worked as a source of earnings for education. 

In addition, he said that lotto business has shown a steady growth in the last two years and 2013 has had record ticket sales. Players have shown a massive demand for Instant ticket items as they splurge m ore of their money on playing lottery. In the end, it’s the young pupils of New Hampshire that gain the maximum from this sale. The reason behind this is that the game has contributed in excess of $1.5 billion for educational purposes since the time of its inception. 

In accordance with the lottery sales reports, Instant ticket sales in 2013 are over 11 percent than the previous year. Director of Marketing and Advertising for the New Hampshire Lottery, Maura McCann said that Instant tickets have made considerable amount of improvements to their ticket program in the last couple of years, giving a 10 percent commission to lottery brokers on additional sales of tickets. 

This worked as a stimulus for the brokers to toil even harder towards enhancing their sales, and the results have been outstanding. She added that Instant ticket has increased prize payment for its players and launched a new line of fresh games – both receiving excellent response from its players. These have resulted in massive sales enhancements and even bigger profits for the state of New Hampshire. 

According to McCann, New Hampshire held the 15th position of 43 state lotteries in the year 2012. In relation to highest percentage rise of per capita Instant sales, the 8th position of the 43 state lotteries was held by New Hampshire. It was the lone state in New England to have a place in the top 10 list state lotteries. Thus, it encouraged the sale of Instant lottery tickets, making it the quickest developing lottery in Britain. 

In the early stages of 2013, the New Hampshire lottery attained one more sales objective, crossing a net profit sales of $5 billion since the initiation of lottery in 1964. In accordance with lottery officers, total sales of tickets in 2013 went up by 16 percent – a sharp 11 percent rise in comparison to the financial year 2012. 

Last year, the New Hampshire lottery doled out almost $159 million to players, and brokers made a total profit of $14.8 million in the form of sales commissions. McIntyre said that while the New Hampshire Lottery reaches its 50th year of lottery business, they are proud of their victory and are absolutely dedicated towards strengthening the future of their nation. He takes this opportunity to thank the Lottery agents, hardworking employees, and Lottery players for helping them in the enhancement of their sales and profit.