With less than 24 hours until the 2016 Man Booker Prize winner is revealed, William Hill has placed Canadian author Madeleine Thien as 7/4 market favourite following a rush of literary bets placed on her book ‘Do Not Say We Have Nothing.’ Updating its ‘2016 Man Booker Prize’ market, Thien takes the lead ahead of British author and playwright Deborah …
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William Hill expands retail gaming inventory with Lightning Box Games
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 …
Read More »The Magnificent Seven: William Hill reveals Sportsbook of the Year Shortlist
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 …
Read More »No Go…William Hill & Amaya end merger talks
The £5 billion merger between FTSE-listed William Hill Plc and Toronto TSX Amaya Inc has been abandoned. This morning both William Hill and Amaya governances’ updated investors declaring that the companies had withdrawn from merger talks. Issuing a corporate statement, William Hill detailed that it received ‘canvassing views from a number of major shareholders’. Last week London hedge fund Parvus, …
Read More »EIG 2016: Amitabh Ghatak – Reality Bites…embracing new technology
The industry’s relationship with new technology and its impact on consumer trends and behaviour will be a key point of discussion at this week’s EIG 2016 Conference (Arena Berlin 18-20 October). Amitabh Ghatak former William Hill Head of Product Development details to SBC how operators and industry stakeholders should assess and value new technologies entering the industry’s value chain. __________________________ …
Read More »William Hill refunds punters on Will Young’s abrupt Strictly exit
Following Tuesday’s announcement by the BBC that contestant Will Young would no longer be participating in this season’s ‘Strictly Come Dancing’, UK bookmaker William Hill has moved to refund all bets placed on the pop star to win the competition. The departure of Young narrows Strictly’s celebrity line-up to twelve contestants as the show enters its fourth week. BBC management …
Read More »William Hill & Amaya merger valued at £4.5-5 billion
UK business news sources have valued the potential merger of FTSE-listed William Hill Plc and Toronto TSX operator Amaya Inc at a combined value of £4.5-5 billion. On late Friday, William Hill and Amaya governances declared that they had entered initial talks discussing plans for an ‘all stock merger of equals’. The governances’ further detailed that the potential merger was …
Read More »Global Gambling Powerhouse…Amaya & William Hill enter ‘all-stock’ merger talks
The governances of William Hill Plc and Amaya Inc have confirmed that they have entered talks discussing a potential ‘all-stock merger of equals’, with a view of creating a global gambling powerhouse. Reacting to press speculation on late Friday, the governances of FTSE-listed William Hill and Toronto TSX-listed Amaya disclosed that initial merger talks had begun. Amaya the operating company …
Read More »William Hill offers 8/1 on Farage UKIP comeback
This week’s shock resignation of UKIP leader Diane James following just 18 days at the helm of the party, has seen Nigel Farage return to steady the ship acting as ‘interim UKIP leader’. Updating its ‘UKIP leadership’ market, bookmaker William Hill has moved to price Farage at 8/1 to permanently replace James, who resigned declaring that she did not ‘have …
Read More »‘What Will She Say?’ William Hill opens market on Theresa’s Tory conference closing speech
William Hill has priced Donald Trump at 3/1 (25% chance) to be mentioned in Theresa May’s closing speech to Conference on Wednesday 5 October. The FTSE bookmaker is pricing odds on a number of political words and phrases, which the new UK Prime Minister may well utter during the course of her closing speech (scheduled for 11:OO am – UK Time) …
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