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Tombola embarks on structural reorganisation of bingo business

SBC News Tombola embarks on structural reorganisation of bingo business

The management of Tombola, will proceed with a reorganisation as part of an ‘extensive operational review’ of the UK’s largest online bingo business. The staff of Tombola were informed last week of the decision, which as reported by the Financial Times, could impact up to 250 jobs  – “according to people briefed on the plans.” Meetings for affected staff have …

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Flutter kicks-off Cash4Clubs 2023 to fund community access to sports

SBC News Flutter kicks-off Cash4Clubs 2023 to fund community access to sports

Flutter Entertainment has reinitiated its ‘Cash4Clubs’ commitment in support of amateur sports clubs and organisations across the UK.  Kicking-off the Cash4Clubs 2023 programme, Flutter has pledged to donate £200,000 to community clubs and charities over the rest of the year. Cash4Clubs will allow cash-strapped sporting organisations across the UK and Ireland to bid for direct grants of £2,000 a time …

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Flutter maintains growth in tricky 2022 as focus shifts on FanDuel break-away

Flutter Entertainment Peter Jackson

Flutter Entertainment Plc has delivered on the objectives of a transformative 2022, maintaining ‘rapid US expansion’ whilst successfully integrating the new assets of Tombola and Sisal to diversify its home and international units. Announcing its full-year 2022 preliminary results, Flutter achieved group revenue results of £7.69bn, up 27% on corresponding FY2021 figures of £6.03bn. The FTSE100 gambling group maintains its …

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Year in Review: Breakneck 2022 sees global gambling face the unknown 

SBC News Year in Review: Breakneck 2022 sees global gambling face the unknown 

The narrative that gambling would see a ‘return to normalised trading’ was short-lived by 2022’s rude awakening, as once more, business was forced to adjust to the realities and concerns of a globalised world.  2021 ended on the unsatisfactory note that the UK government had failed to deliver its White Paper of gambling reforms, which would be delayed to the …

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Sky Bet to use ‘largest sponsorship inventory to date’ for responsibility promotion

Sky Bet, Dan Colton

Steve Birch, Sky Bet Chief Commercial Officer, has stated that the operator’s partnership with the English Football League (EFL) will continue to focus heavily on responsibility.  Approaching the 10-year mark, the Flutter Entertainment sportsbook brand’s collaboration with England’s second-to-fourth flights of football continues amid a debate on betting’s relationship with sports.  Gambling reform advocates have repeatedly encouraged a distancing between …

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Ian Brown to lead Flutter UK&I following Conor Grant exit

SBC News Ian Brown to lead Flutter UK&I following Conor Grant exit

Flutter Entertainment Plc has confirmed the inbound appointment of Ian Brown as new Chief Executive of its UK-&-Ireland business. Brown will take the reins at the FTSE100 betting and gaming group in September, replacing outgoing CEO Conor Grant, who will continue to work with the incoming Chief Executive during the transition phase.  A former CEO of Booking.com’s Trips division and …

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Flutter calls on start-ups to enhance retail offering

SBC News Flutter calls on start-ups to enhance retail offering

Flutter Entertainment plans to enhance  Paddy Power’s retail offering via its Alpha Hub ‘global innovation community’, calling on emerging tech start-ups to participate.  The group, which operates 625 betting shops across the UK and Ireland, is looking for firms with ‘tenacious ideas’ focused around data and analytics, the in-store experience and the future of self-service terminals.  Interested companies will also …

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GambleAware lauds ‘Big Four’ donations but decries ‘inconsistent approach’

Zoe Osmund, GambleAware

GambleAware has published its list of corporate donors for the 12 months ending 31 March 2022, revealing that the ‘Big Four’ group of UK operators generated 89% of all contributions. The responsible and safer gambling organisation updated that Entain, Flutter Entertainment and William Hill all made donations in the millions, with total industry contributions to GambleAware reaching £34.7 million. The continued …

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Flutter calls on Betfair Cluj recruitment drive to support global IT expansion

SBC News Flutter calls on Betfair Cluj recruitment drive to support global IT expansion

Flutter Entertainment has disclosed to Romanian media that it seeks to recruit 500 new software developers and IT engineers to join its Betfair Cluj Napoca tech hub. The FTSE100 betting group has operated its Cluj tech hub since 2015, established by its Betfair business ahead of the subsidiary’s £4 billion merger with Paddy Power – a transformative deal that laid …

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