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The Football Pools, an iconic Liverpool business, first started selling its coupons outside Old Trafford, home of fierce rivals Manchester United
On average we have a winner every 3 minutes
The Football Pools is the UK’s favourite football gaming brand
Pools, or tote betting, is the most popular legal form of sports-based betting outside of the UK
The global pools market in football and horseracing is worth $80 billion
We donated £600 million to help fund major improvements in stadium safety across many clubs in the UK
The global gaming market is worth $350 billion and growing +5% year on year
Sportech is one of the leading suppliers and operators of pools/tote betting in the world
Sportech has launched a Joint Venture in India
The biggest ever Football Pools top prize was £4 million won in March 2010
The Football Pools is the world’s oldest football gaming company
Across North America, Sportech Racing has a 50% market share in horseracing pools
We have a presence in over 30 countries
We have paid out over £10 billion in prize money to our customers
We are the exclusive operator of pools/tote betting on horseracing in the Netherlands
We are the leading provider of horseracing wagering solutions in North America with over 25,000 terminals
We process over $13 billion in bets every year
The Football Pools has over 500,000 players every week
Over the years we have donated over £1.1 billion to good causes
| OUR SECTORS | Football pools, horseracing totes, sports pools, lotteries, bingo, casino, poker, fantasy sports gaming and instant win games. | |
| OUR MARKETS | Over 30 countries including primarily the UK, Europe and North America. | |
| OUR LICENSES | We hold several licences including pools betting, external and general lottery management, casino and bingo. We also hold a number of exclusive pools/tote horseracing licences in the Netherlands until 2013 and Connecticut, exclusively and in perpetuity. | |
| OUR BRANDS | The Football Pools, Vernons, Sportech Racing, Autotote Enterprises, Winners and Runnerz. | |
| OUR ANNUAL REVENUE | £118.2 million. | |
| OUR WAGERS PROCESSED | Over £8.5 billion annually. | |
| OUR EMPLOYEES | We have over 1,000 employees across the world. | |
| OUR OFFICES | Our global head office is in London (UK) with operational centres in Liverpool (UK), Connecticut (USA), Atlanta (USA), New Jersey (USA), Sacramento (USA), Essen (Germany), the Netherlands, The Hague (Netherlands) and Dublin (Ireland). |
ANNUAL REVENUE £118.2m
ADJUSTED OPERATING PROFIT* £20.5m
*Adjusted profit numbers are stated before amortisation of acquired intangibles, exceptional costs, share of loss after tax of joint venture and other finance charges. The above figures are extracted from the audited Annual Report and Accounts 2010.
WORLD'S OLDEST FOOTBALL GAMING COMPANY FOUNDED 1923
NUMBER OF BETS PROCESSED EVERY YEAR £8.5bn
A PRESENCE IN >30 COUNTRIES
*pools/tote: often also referred to as pari-mutuel.
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