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Flutter makes its bingo play with £402m buyout of Tombola  

SBC News Flutter makes its bingo play with £402m buyout of Tombola  

Flutter Entertainment has secured a definitive agreement to acquire Tombola Limited – the UK’s leading online bingo and soft games operator for £402 million.  The deal will see Flutter diversify its games portfolio and expand its market share within the UK, in which Tombola generates 80% of its turnover.  “In its financial year to end April 2021 Tombola generated pro …

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Betting bosses withdraw from upcoming APPG hearing

SBC News Betting bosses withdraw from upcoming APPG hearing

GVC Holdings Group CEO Kenneth Alexander has withdrawn from this week’s Gambling Related Harm All Party Parliamentary Group (GRH APPG) hearing, with the group’s chair Carolyn Harris MP branding the executive’s decision ‘outrageous’. The APPG hearing, which will specifically focus upon identifying and resolving harms caused by online gambling, brings together representatives from a number of leading UK operators including GVC, William Hill …

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Tombola pushes ahead with Sunderland recruitment drive

SBC News Tombola pushes ahead with Sunderland recruitment drive

Phil Cronin the Founder & Chief Executive of Tombola, the UK’s biggest online bingo operator has today confirmed that his firm is ready to push ahead with its plan to build a £5 million Sunderland ‘business campus’. Speaking to North-East news sources, Cronin stated that Tombola was preparing to expand its development arm by adding 80 new software focused roles …

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Tombola commits £5 million to new Sunderland HQ

SBC News Tombola commits £5 million to new Sunderland HQ

Online bingo and games operator Tombola has committed £5 million towards building its new headquarters in the city of Sunderland (County Durham). Speaking to North East news sources, Phil Cronin founder of Tombola stated that he wanted to build the ‘best business campus’ for the city of Sunderland. At present Tombola, which runs the UK’s most popular online bingo room …

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