If you count the thousands of betting shops along with the casinos, the United Kingdom offers more gambling facilities than the United States, the country with the most casinos in the world. The United Kingdom Gambling Commission (UKGC) administers one of the world's largest and most robust regulatory and enforcement frameworks in existence, so the Gambling Commision features prominently in our reporting about the UK. London is also home to some of the most important conferences and trade shows for online and terrestrial casinos so were cover those as well.
Mergers and acquisitions occur in Great Britain with greater regularity as the industry consolidates and big fish eat smaller fish. Not all partnerships result in one of the entities being consumed, so we stay on top of news about UK-based and licensed online casino game developers as software agnostic platforms dominate the industry.
The UK Gambling Commission announced a week ago that it had?suspended the license for MetroPlay Limited, which also controls 666Bet. This week ?starts with a new turn of events. The director of 666Bet has been ...
With many gamblers being smokers, ?Park Lane Casino at London Hilton Park Lane??is developing a multi-million pound rooftop casino to provide table games to smoking patrons. This is a unique way for the casino ...
Mihai Lacatos is a sixty two year old Romanian national who recently earned 18 months in jail after trying to escape charges of cheating at the game of poker. Lacatos traveled throughout the UK, cheating at car...
Unpaid gambling debt has hurt the Ritz Casino greatly, so much so, that the casino has had to file several lawsuits against wealthy clients who have unpaid bills. The High Court received filings against ten ind...
Making Things Look Pretty…
By Colin Stewart
So what do you think? Do casinos in the UK need marketing? Is a marketing department a ‘luxury’ or a ‘necessity’? Most, if not all major businesses have dedicated m...