Tabcorp Holdings has been forced to close a significant number of TAB betting shops and agents across Victoria, after State Premier Daniel Andrews enforced a further coronavirus lockdown. On Monday, following a spike of more than 200 new cases in the district area of Melbourne, the Victoria government issued a border closure between Victoria and New South Wales – Australia’s …
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Tabcorp Holdings has reached an agreement with its US debt holders which will allow the ASX gambling group to defer payments on its debt covenants. Last month, Tabcorp communicated that it had entered negotiations with US debt holders to obtain new ‘covenant terms’ on its corporate debt tranche of AUS $2.1 billion, maximising financial flexibility as it looks to navigate …
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Tabcorp Holdings has informed investors that the company will sanction no dividend in relation to financial-year 2020 trading. The firm has been forced to terminate the 2020 dividend (fiscal year ending 30 June) as part of its agreed terms with bank lenders, allowing the ASX betting group to waiver approximately AUS $2.2 billion (€1.3bn) of debt covenants until 2021. Updating …
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Australian ASX gambling group Tabcorp Holdings has announced a major coup for its TAB sportsbook subsidiary, which has become the official Australia broadcast and betting operator for the NBA. Securing a multi-year agreement, TAB is set to broadcast ‘NBA TV’ across its digital platforms and 4,400 retail venues. Confirming the partnership Scott Levy, Executive VP of NBA Asia, said: “Tabcorp’s extensive …
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David Attenborough, the Chief Executive of Australia ASX-listed gambling group Tabcorp Holdings has stated that the company holds no intentions in splitting its lucrative lotteries and keno division into a separate entity, dismissing speculation as ‘complete nonsense’. Yesterday, Tabcorp investors were served mixed results as the company published 2018/2019 accounts (12-month period ending 30 June), reporting on the firm’s first …
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Australia ASX-listed gambling group Tabcorp Holdings faces a legal dispute with Racing Queensland related to Australian betting’s new point-of-consumption (POC) tax charge. Unable to reach an agreement on POC ‘additional payments’, the governance of Racing Queensland has moved to file a Supreme Court challenge against Tabcorp subsidiary UBET Queensland. Implementing its state budget mandate, in October 2018 the Queensland government …
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Australia ASX-listed gambling group Tabcorp Holdings Plc, has upgraded its corporate integration and synergy targets, as governance aims to display the firm’s enlarged capacity across all product verticals and services. Publishing its interim 2018/19 results (period ending 31 December 2018), a significantly enlarged Tabcorp records group revenues of AUS $2.7 billion, primarily attributed to incorporating Tatts Group keno and lottery …
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The governance of Australia ASX-listed Tabcorp Holdings has been served a bloody nose, as a significant number of its investors have rejected the firm’s executive remuneration report. This Wednesday, 40% of Tabcorp investors voted against 2017/18 executive packages. Australian business news sources report that investors had been incensed by the company attaching executive performance rewards (bonuses) to Tabcorp’s AUS $11 …
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The governance of Australia ASX-listed Aristocrat Leisure has this morning disclosed that Dr Ian Blackburne will step down as corporate Chairman, at the firm’s upcoming ‘Annual General Meeting’ scheduled for 21 February 2019. Filing an ASX update, Aristocrat governance details that it will move to appoint Non-Executive Director Neil Chatfield as new company Chairman succeeding Dr Blackburne in 2019. The …
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Business news source, ‘The Australian’ reports that Elmer Funke Kupper will no longer serve as a Tabcorp Holdings’ Director, detailing that the executive will depart the company in October. Funke Kupper was the former Managing Director & Chief Executive of Tabcorp Holdings from 2007-2011. In 2011, Funke Kupper left the Australian gambling group to take up leadership of the Australian Securities …
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