Retail

William Hill’s retail division will offer leading games titles from Australian slot design specialist Lightning Box Games (Lightning Box) following a content agreement of between the two firms. The partnership will see William Hill initially roll-out Lightning Box titles ‘Silver Lion Deluxe’ and ‘Panda Power Deluxe’ across its 2300 UK estates. Securing its biggest UK content deal to date Lightning …

SIS, a supplier of products and services to the online and retail betting industry, has signed a multi-year deal to bring 49s-branded virtual racing games to online customers for the first time. A staple of UK and Irish retail betting shops for over a decade, the 49s-branded virtual horse and greyhound racing, provided by Inspired Gaming Group, will now be …

Industry data and analytics provider Betradar has secured an extensive live betting solutions partnership with Greek licensed gambling operator OPAP. The partnership will see OPAP the biggest bookmaker in Greece integrate Betradar provisions for automated live betting markets and in-running trading services throughout the operator’s retail and online betting network. OPAP governance detailed that Betradar live betting services were needed …

Arena Racing Company (ARC) has confirmed UK racing Authorised Betting Partner (ABP) Betway as sponsor of its fourth season of the All-Weather Championships. The bookmaker takes lead sponsorship of three categories – the Sprint, Middle Distance and Marathon categories. Confirming the  multi-year deal, Betway joins ABP boomaker 32Red as category sponsors for the upcoming All-Weather Championships. The Middle Distance championship …

UK bookmaker Coral has  announced that it has launched Betradar’s Virtual Gaming services through its online and mobile betting channels Betradar’s suite of Virtual Gaming products include tennis, basketball, horse and dog racing, as well as various football versions that have been adapted to mirror a number of different competition formats, including Football League/Tournament Mode and Euro Cup Mode. Commenting …

Unibet Group has signed a cooperation agreement with Early Warning System GmbH (EWS) in order to improve efforts to safeguard the integrity of sports and betting. This agreement will further strengthen the cooperation between Unibet Group and FIFA’s Early Warning System, and the exchange of information will help to improve both prevention measures and education in the field of sports …

Publishing its trading update for Q4 2016 (12-week period ending 25 September), Gala Coral expects to report an 8.9% group net revenues uplift on corresponding 2015 performance. In what may likely be its last financial update as an independent gambling operator, Gala Coral stated that its performance had been driven by the continued growth of its digital division, which reported …

Ahead of the third and final US Presidential Debate (University of Nevada), UK bookmaker William Hill has slashed its odds on Donald Trump becoming the 45th President of the United States from 11-2 to 4-1. Updating its ‘2016 US Election’ market, William Hill stated that the betting patterns were reminiscent of those seen in the lead up to the UK …

Updating the market Athens-listed lottery technology provider Intralot SPA has announced that Intralot Inc (USA operating division) CEO Tom Little has stepped down from his leadership position within the firm. Little has served as CEO of Intralot US since 2002. The lottery provisions supplier confirmed that Little’s USA CEO duties would be temporarily filed by Intralot Group Chief Operating Officer …

The shortlist has been revealed for the much sought after William Hill Sportsbook of the Year award 2016, and it includes stories  from the worlds of football, horse racing, cricket, swimming and athletics. Amongst the more bewildering of the subject matter to make the list is Oliver Kay’s ‘Forever Young: The Story of Adrian Doherty’; a re-telling of the life of …