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

Consolidated income
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Interim consolidated income statement
For the six months ended 30 June 2011

	Note	Six months ended 30 June 2011 (Unaudited) £m	Six months ended 30 June 2010 (Unaudited) £m	Year ended 31 December 2010 (Audited) £m
Revenue	4	57.4	28.6	71.2
Cost of sales		(30.9)	(6.4)	(25.1)
Gross profit		26.5	22.2	46.1
Distribution costs		(0.4)	(0.4)	(1.0)
Administrative expenses		(19.6)	(23.7)	(43.5)
Operating profit before amortisation of acquired intangibles and exceptional costs		9.8	8.6	17.4
Amortisation of acquired intangibles		(3.0)	(3.0)	(5.9)
Exceptional costs	5	(0.3)	(7.5)	(9.9)
Operating profit/(loss)	4	6.5	(1.9)	1.6
Finance costs	6	(2.5)	(2.8)	(5.6)
Finance income	6	0.1	—	0.1
Other finance charges	6	(0.2)	(1.2)	(1.4)
Net finance costs	6	(2.6)	(4.0)	(6.9)
Share of loss after tax of joint venture	10	(0.2)	—	(0.6)
Profit/(loss) before taxation		3.7	(5.9)	(5.9)
Adjusted profit before taxation*		7.4	5.8	11.9
Taxation	7	(1.4)	0.1	(0.4)
Profit/(loss) for the period from continuing operations attributable to equity shareholders		2.3	(5.8)	(6.3)

Earnings/(loss) per share from continuing operations
Basic	8	1.2p	(4.0p)	(3.9p)
Diluted	8	1.1p	(4.0p)	(3.9p)
Adjusted earnings per share from continuing operations
Basic	8	2.6p	2.9p	5.4p
Diluted	8	2.5p	2.9p	5.2p

*	Adjusted profit before taxation is profit before taxation, amortisation of acquired intangibles, exceptional costs, share of loss after tax of joint venture and other finance charges.