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Overview of Partners
BetShop Group (Europe) Limited is a European online sports betting and casino gaming business,
headquartered in London. The BetShop.com website operates in eight European languages on the company’s
proprietary sports betting software platform. The company also operates the GoalsLive.com online sports
information and results portal. In Italy, the company’s innovative marketing and business development is
driven by a network of over 600 retail sites. Each of these betting shops are licensed by the Italian government
and branded BetShop Italia. In June 2006, BetShop was acquired by Leisure & Gaming plc, the AIM quoted
interactive betting and gaming company.
Caliente is a Mexican corporation that has been a leading
player in the Latin American Entertainment and Gaming Industry since 1916. The company’s roots
are in the famous Agua Caliente Race Track immortalized in the famous movie Seabiscuit.
Presently Caliente Group operates more than 85 establishments and provides operational
services to another 80 locations known as Race & Sports Books, where customers can enjoy and
wager on races held at the most important horse and greyhound racing tracks in the world, as well
as sporting events of major international relevance. Leveraging an extensive technological and
human infrastructure, Caliente provides operation services in Antigua, Argentina, Aruba, Brazil,
Colombia, Curacao, Ecuador, México, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, St. Maarten, Uruguay, Venezuela, and
Austria. Additionally, Caliente Group operates a Greyhound Track in Tijuana, Baja California,
Mexico with live racing every day of the year, as well as 20 Bingo Halls distributed among the
most important cities in Mexico.
Ladbrokes was first established in
1886 taking wagers in the Gentlemans' clubs of London. Today Ladbrokes is the world’s
leading retail bookmaker, taking over 350 million bets a year at over 2,500 high street
betting shops in the UK, Ireland and Belgium and at 47 leading football clubs and 11
horseracing tracks. It has the highest brand awareness of any bookmaker in the UK and
has reinvented the betting shop experience with a £25 million annual investment in
design and technology since 2001. Its latest innovation - Ladbrokes Xtra - is an exclusive
second dedicated betting shop broadcast channel showing a wide range of racing and sports
events that other bookmakers cannot offer.
Online, Ladbrokes.com has over 2 million registered customers from over 200 countries
betting in 12 languages using 18 currencies. Ladbrokes.com was awarded best sports betting
operator at the 2005 eGaming Awards and best innovation for its Ladbrokes Financials product
which enables betting on 5 minute movements in stock exchange indices like the FTSE-100 Index.
Completing the comprehensive portal offering is Ladbrokespoker.com, the most popular poker site
with European players, Ladbrokescasino.com and Ladbrokesgames.com.
Sportingbet Plc is based in London and is listed on the London Stock
Exchange AIM market (LSE: SBT). Sportingbet's aim
is to provide adult customers with high quality gaming services in a leisure environment that is convenient,
entertaining, fair, regulated and secure. For further information please visit www.sportingbetplc.com.
The Victor Chandler group is one of the world’s
premier leading independent bookmaking and gaming groups. With headquarters in Gibraltar and extensive
operations in the UK, Europe and the Far East, the group offers betting by phone and the Internet to 164
countries and has annual turnover in excess of $1 billion.
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