Will reveal new billboard at celebration event in Austin

WHAT: The Texas Lottery will celebrate surpassing $5 billion in sales for fiscal year 2016 with employees,

confetti canons, music and the revealing of a new billboard at its 6th Street headquarters in Austin.

Texas Lottery Executive Director Gary Grief and Chairman J. Winston Krause will unveil a new

billboard design on a 22’x10’ mobile billboard.

WHEN: Thursday, Sept. 29

 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

WHERE: Texas Lottery

 611 E. 6th Street

Austin, Texas 78701

WHAT ELSE:

ï‚· The Texas Lottery has more than 17,000 retailers and introduces approximately 90 scratch tickets

every year.

ï‚· Scratch ticket sales for FY 16 totaled $3.72 billion, the highest scratch ticket sales in Texas Lottery

history.

ï‚· The Texas Lottery’s $5 billion in annual sales is greater than the annual sales for many well-known

brands including Tesla Motors, Yahoo, Levi Strauss, Hyatt Hotels, Molson Coors Brewing and Tiffany.

ï‚· The Texas Lottery’s $537.8 million increase alone from FY 15 to FY 16 is more than the total annual

sales amounts for 20 other individual state lotteries.

ï‚· FY 16 sales resulted in a total contribution of $1.392 billion to Texas, the single largest annual

transfer of revenue to the state.

ï‚· The Texas Lottery has now contributed more than $19 billion to Texas public education and more

than $66 million to Texas veterans.

ï‚· This is the 13th consecutive year that the Texas Lottery generated more than $1 billion in revenue for

Texas.