The German AWP operating industry has declined 50 per cent in turnover in comparison with 2019, according to the Deutschen Automatenwirtschaft (DAW) trade association.
The organisation says that at the end of 2019 the size of the established base of low-payout machines in the country was 220,000, or 10 per cent fewer than in 2018.
The figures have fallen in recent years, due to restrictions placed on the industry by the states. In 2015 Germany had 267,000 machines in operation. In 2016 it fell slightly to 264,000, then to 255,000 in 2017 and to 245,000 in 2018.
The DAW also forecasts that if the treaty concluded by the 16 German states was fully implemented, reducing multi-licensing of arcades, the established base of machines would decline by 60 per cent compared with mid-2017.
Germany only allows 12 AWPs for each arcade licence – only eight in Hamburg and Berlin.
