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

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Stock Symbol:	SPO
Market:	London Stock Exchange
FTSE Index:	FTSE All-Share; FTSE Small Cap
FTSE Sector:	Leisure, Entertainment and Hotels
FTSE Sub-sector:	Gaming

Key people

On 6 March 2013, the following interests representing 3% or more of the issued share capital of the Company had been notified to the Company:

Holder	Ordinary shares of 50p	% of issued share capital
Scientific Games Corporation Inc.	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%
Aberforth Partners LLP	18,281,970 ordinary shares	9.20%
Henderson Global Investments Limited	15,536,295 ordinary shares	7.81%
UBS Investment Bank	8,046,678 ordinary shares	4.05%
AXA S.A.	7,835,939 ordinary shares	3.94%
Aviva PLC	6,864,718 ordinary shares	3.45%
Total of substantial shareholdings	153,306,809 ordinary shares	77.11%

The Directors who held office during the year, had the following beneficial interests in the share capital of the Company:

	Number of shares held
Roger Withers	112,079
Ian Penrose	500,000
Ian Hogg	197,140
Steve Cunliffe (resigned 6 March 2013)	85,000
Brooks Pierce (resigned 10 May 2012)	—
Peter Williams	100,000
John Barnes	110,000
David McKeith	—
Lorne Weil	2,000,000
Mor Weizer	—