Company Reports

A new study has revealed that major political parties in Australia have been taking donations of more than $14 million from gambling, alcohol and tobacco companies, with the contributions’ amounts sharply rising during debates regarding taxes on alco-pop drinks and gambling reforms. The research was published in the latest Drug and Alcohol Review. According to the data revealed in the study results, alcohol companies were the largest contributors to major political parties with donations amounting to AU$7.7 million. Gambling businesses were second, with donations worth AU$2.8 million, while supermarket chains…

GambleAware, the leading charity organisation battling gambling-related harm, has unveiled a new financial analysis focused on gambling companies’ marketing spending. The report has been issued by Regulus Partners, a popular gambling industry specialists. According to the data provided by the financial analysts, marketing spending of gambling operators has increased by 56% since 2014, reaching £1.5 billion. The revelations come at a time when gambling and betting companies have been under fire over their extensive advertising which, according to their opponents, often targets under-aged and vulnerable individuals. The financial report revealed…

The founder and joint chief executive of British online gambling group bet365 Denise Coates is the highest-paid director in the United Kingdom and probably the highest-paid female chief executive in the world. In an annual report, the company revealed that Coates had received £265 million in salary and dividends in 2017 following a pay rise of £48 million from the previous year. The 51-years-old gambling mogul started the online business in 2001 as sports betting platform that transformed her father Peter Coates’ chain of betting shops. Today, she continues to…

ITV has faced fierce criticism for giving permission to a gambling operator to sponsor the I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here application, with thousands of under-aged fans of the show accessing encouragements to bet. All this happens at a time when gambling operators in the UK have been put under fire for their advertising campaigns which, according to some gambling opponents, have been targeting children by making gambling look normal to them with ads and incentives for placing a bet. As The Guardian revealed, Tom Watson, the deputy…

Today, the largest gambling operators in the UK are to hold talks regarding an unprecedented series of decisions to put voluntary restrictions on their advertising campaigns amid rising political pressure for a thorough gambling industry crackdown. According to information revealed by Sky News, the board of the Remote Gambling Association (RGA), some of which members are William Hill, Ladbrokes, bet365, Betfred and Paddy Power, will have a meeting to discuss the situation and the advertising code which they are obliged to comply with. #GCRS2018 pic.twitter.com/JWyGWaPoGB — Gambling Commission (@GamRegGB) November…

Martin Samuel, a chief sports reporter at The Daily Mail, has called for changes to football’s individual betting market after Liverpool’s striker Daniel Sturridge recently faced Football Association’s allegations of misconduct. According to Mr. Samuel, UK bookmakers should be the ones to blame for creating problems for themselves by allowing people to place wagers on transfer moves. As revealed by Casino Guardian at the time when the charges against Sturridge emerged, the striker was alleged of breaching rules of the English football’s governing body. The charges are related to the…

Media reports have emerged that one of the largest bookmakers in the UK – William Hill – is having talks with 34 members of its staff in Leeds. The meetings are held for the two parties to discuss possible layoffs in the operator’s high-street betting outlets. The Yorkshire Post revealed that a spokesman for the company that currently has around 1,300 workers in Leeds, shared that the gambling operator expected to suffer the effects of significant regulatory changes imposed by the UK Government on the sector. The crackdown on the…

The Chief Executive Officer of the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) hinted that the watchdog is seeking for appropriate bidders for the next UK National Lottery licence. Neil McArthur, the CEO of the UKGC, explained that the way consumers engage with the lottery is changing towards a more media-, tech- and personal device-based approach. This is why the watchdog is trying to find out what finance and tech providers find interesting. According to McArthur, there is a “significant untapped potential” in the National Lottery franchise. In addition, the UKGC CEO explained…

The UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) found that a very small percentage of English pubs have managed to prevent children from accessing gaming terminals. As revealed by the major gambling regulatory body in the UK, some recently-held tests on a sample of pubs have found that under-aged individuals were actually able to get to adults-only gaming machines in almost 90% of the pubs located in England. The Programme Director of the UKGC, Helen Rhodes, shared that the Commission was “extremely concerned” that England-located pubs are not very successful at stopping under-aged…

The online gambling operator Daub Alderney has been hit by a massive fine imposed by the UK Gambling Commission (UKGC) due to failures to comply with the gambling regulatory body’s rules regarding money laundering prevention and customer protection. The Executive Director of the UKGC, Richard Watson, revealed that the probe which affected Daub Alderney came as part of a broader ongoing investigation into the online casino industry. Mr. Watson further explained that the operator’s standards did not match the Commission’s requirements in terms of customer protection and reflected the seriousness…