Entain, formerly known as GVC Holdings, has signed a ‘global innovation alliance’ with Verizon Media which will deliver new virtual reality (VR) experiences for live sports viewing. The gambling operator will work alongside Verizon Media to ‘combine live sports viewing with interactive layers of sports data and gaming’, allowing bettors to ‘participate in sports events, check data, socialise with friends, …
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Shay Segev, Group CEO of Entain Plc (formerly GVC Holdings), has spoken exclusively to SBC about the ‘generational transformation’ that the FTSE100 betting group has undertaken after embracing the key responsibility objectives of its new ‘corporate charter’. Speaking to SBC MD Andrew McCarron, Segev outlined Entain’s new mission, explaining that the company aims to lead global gambling across all safer …
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GVC Holdings shareholders have overwhelmingly approved the FTSE100 firm’s corporate rebrand to new identity ‘Entain Plc’. The rebrand was backed by 99.9% of company shareholders, who cast votes at an ‘extraordinary general meeting’ signing-off on the ‘new corporate charter’ proposing a series of new long-term sustainability objectives. Who is Entain from Entain on Vimeo. Last month, Group CEO …
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GVC Holdings has appointed distinguished behavioural addiction expert and gambling psychologist Dr Mark Griffiths as a strategic advisor on player protections and the development of the firm’s ‘safer play’ technologies. Dr Griffiths, who leads gambling addiction research for Nottingham Trent University, will be tasked with auditing GVC’s group-wide policies, procedures and protocols with regards to developing safer gambling environments for …
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The global pandemic has shown the value of esports as a wagering discipline. Yet beyond Covid circumstances, can betting break with tradition and develop real esports propositions engaging with a new generation of customers? Scott Longley analyses the cultural and technological adjustments that betting incumbents will face in their next multi-billion £/$/€ field of play… Traditional sport has come rushing …
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GVC Holdings will rebrand its corporate identity to ‘Entain Plc’, as the FTSE100 online gambling group commits to operating 100% across regulated markets by the end of 2023 trading. This morning, GVC presented a series of strategic objectives to investors and analysts, outlining the firm’s ambitious plans to lead the global igaming sector in its era of sustainability and corporate …
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GVC Holdings has retained its position as a ‘FTSE4Good Index’ business following its annual review of corporate practices. A London Stock Exchange CSR directive, the FTSE4Good Index was launched in 2001 tracking the performance of listed firms’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards. GVC Holdings has retained its listing on FTSE4Good Index having undertaken an independent assessment of its corporate …
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GVC Holdings has this morning confirmed that it has been approved four separate sports betting licences for Germany, adhering to market conditions set by the Länder approved ‘transitional framework’. Updating investors, the FTSE100 betting group confirmed that transitional licences have been authorised for its SportingBet, Ladbrokes, bwin and Gamebookers brands. Announced at the start of October, Germany’s 16 federal Länder …
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GVC Holdings has predicted that its earnings for the year will be £50 million ahead of previous expectations, as online wagering continues to drive the operator’s performance. Publishing its Q3 trading update for the period 1 July to 30 September 2020, GVC reported that it had achieved its ‘nineteenth consecutive quarter of double-digit online growth’, with total online net gaming …
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The approval by Germany’s 16 Lander (regional councils) to launch a ‘transitional tolerance period’ for igaming services, which will bring clarity to operators who wish to participate in the federal relaunch of the online gambling marketplace in 2021, has drawn contrasting views. As German Lander continue to individually ratify the final amendments of the federal New Interstate Treaty on Online …
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