Anyone watching the telly after 9pm during April may have caught the Ladbrokes ad in question before it was taken off the air. Although the ad originally passed checks and made it onto the TV in the first place, a complaint from a member of the public made the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) look again….
If someone offered you £8.1 billion for your business would you sell it? Entain (the new brand name of GVC) wouldn’t. MGM Resorts yesterday put the huge offer on the table, but were knocked back by the owners of brands such as Ladbrokes, Coral, and Betdaq. Entain believe the offer, representing £13.83 per share, does…
Comparing odds before choosing where to place your bet is an integral part of the betting process for many punters, and Oddschecker is a site that allows them to do just that. All of the big brands are on there, or at least they were until July 9th, because GVC have pulled three of their…
It’s only been a few weeks since a group of cross-party MP’s looking into gambling related harm began a campaign to reduce online gambling stakes to a maximum of £2 – to match the regulations imposed on FOBT’s earlier in the year – and already the gambling industry has responded. 10 of the UK’s most…
It hasn’t been a good week at GVC Holdings HQ. The holding company that owns both Ladbrokes and Coral has been found by the UKGC to have failed to carry out social responsibility interactions going back to 2014. The worst part for them is that they didn’t even run the two bookies until 2017 so…
One of the biggest gambling groups in the industry, GVC Holdings, has said that revenue from online operations is up 18% on the previous year, taking the sting out of the loss of income from FOBT’s. GVC own Ladbrokes Coral so they know only too well the effects of the changes in regulations concerning the…
