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

Major shareholders

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On 24 March 2011, the following interests in the issued share capital of the Company had been issued to the Company:

Holder	Ordinary shares of 50p	% of issued share capital
Scientific Games Corporation	39,742,179 ordinary shares	19.99%
Newby Manor Limited	37,118,010 ordinary shares	18.67%
Playtech Limited	19,881,020 ordinary shares	10.00%
Gartmore Investment Limited	15,391,687 ordinary shares	7.74%
AXA S.A.	7,835,939 ordinary shares	3.94%
Total of substantial shareholdings	119,968,835 ordinary shares	60.34%

Directors and their interests in the shares of the Company

The Directors who held office during the year, and up to 24 March 2011, had the following beneficial interests in the share capital of the Company:

	Number of shares held
Roger Withers (appointed 8 February 2011)	12,079
Ian Penrose	435,000
Steve Cunliffe	65,000
Ian Hogg (appointed 5 October 2010)	47,140
Brooks Pierce (appointed 5 October 2010)	500,000
Peter Williams (appointed 8 February 2011)	—
John Barnes	110,000
Lorne Weil (appointed 5 October 2010)	2,000,000
Mor Weizer (appointed 23 March 2011)	—
Shmuel Weiss (appointed 5 October 2010, resigned 23 March 2011)	—
Piers Pottinger (resigned 23 November 2010)	—
Kathryn Revitt (resigned 5 October 2010)	—
Jon Holmes (resigned 5 October 2010)	—