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The Stobart Group has been announced as headline sponsor of the three-day Northumberland Plate meeting, after agreements were reached with the Arena Racing Company and Newcastle Racecourse. Titled the Stobart Group Festival of Racing, the festival is scheduled to take place June 28-30, featuring a stellar racing and entertainment line-up. David Williamson, Executive Director at Newcastle Racecourse, commented: “We are …

With UK firms publishing their official gender pay gap statistics, it meant that for the first time the true extent of wage inequality in the UK was revealed. Whilst it’s important to note that gender pay gap statistics aren’t the only representation of diversity within any industry, they do go someway to giving an assessment of levels of gender discrimination …

Perform Group has partnered with bet365 to provide live and bespoke ICS-powered audio commentary and match insight for its players over the top of Perform’s live video streams. The Stoke-based firm has followed Unibet and Fonbet as the latest operator to take advantage of Perform’s Custom Betting Commentary product. The service builds on the Watch & Bet live streaming service …

With less than two months to go until the 14 June kick-off, 10Bet is busy finalising its preparations for this summer’s World Cup. The company’s CMO Oshri Kostiner spoke to SBC News about making plans for the biggest betting event on the planet. SBC: How separate is the World Cup month within your marketing plans for the whole of 2018? …

Sports Information Services (SIS) has entered into a fresh partnership with global gaming operator Unibet, to deliver horseracing and greyhounds lives pictures and data from worldwide racecourses. Providing the Kindred Group brand with its British and Irish greyhound service, taking in a market of 42 fixtures per week, the live pictures and data suppliers will also be supplying Early Prices, …

Data intelligence firm GBG has found stark changes in consumers online betting habits, as well as last hour wagering, for this years Grand National, after studying data gathered from a selection of the UK’s leading online betting companies. For the biggest horse race of the year a flurry of betting activity (32%) occurred in the immediate build up, between 4pm …

Smarkets has revealed that last Saturday’s Randox Health Grand National broke the Smarkets record for most trading volume on a single event. The previous record was set at last year’s National, when a total of £44.5m was traded on the world’s most famous horse race. This time around, the Smarkets exchange had £57.4m of volume across all its National markets, …

Expansion has continued for XLMedia PLC as the group has announced the acquisition of legacy UK  online bingo community portal WhichBingo.co.uk, further growing it’s significant UK footprint. Founded in 2000 by webmaster Phil Fraser, WhichBingo is one of  UK online gambling’s oldest affiliates. A leading authority for online bingo reviews and insights, WhichBingo utilises player content and opinion pieces to …

GambleAware’s Chief Executive Marc Etches has penned an open letter to the industry, praising the response to last year’s concerns regarding funding for problem gambling initiatives. Detailing its voluntary donation system was, at the time, 60% below its funding target, Etches states that, despite ultimately falling below its £10m objective, a record breaking £9.4m was reached. Announcing donations are being …