Entain and Flutter Entertainment increasingly looking to the US market for growth
Both declare results in the first week of March and the smart betting is that their activities in the US will likely garner the most attention.
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Entain PLC
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Entain PLC, formerly GVC Holdings, is one of the world’s largest sports betting and gaming groups, offering sports betting, casino, poker and bingo and operate some of the industry’s largest online brands including bwin, Sportingbet, partypoker, partycasino and Foxy Bingo. In March 2018, as GVC, the group acquired Ladbrokes Coral to become the UK’s largest high street bookmaker, adding retail and online gaming brands, Ladbrokes, Coral and Gala to the portfolio. The Group, headquartered in the Isle of Man, has licences in more than 20 countries and has been trading since 2004, when it started out on AIM as a provider of services to the online gaming industry.
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