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BoyleSports has been betting big on the UK retail sector with its most recent shop opening last week in Edmonton, but grander moves were made in Greater Manchester earlier this year with the acquisition of local chain Lewis Bet. Lee Otter, BoyleSports’ Director of Property and Development, offered exclusive insights into the company’s Mancunian venture. As a thriving city, Manchester …

BoyleSports has announced that it has opened another UK-based shop – in Stevenage Old Town. The Ireland-founded group has explained how it is ‘enhancing the town centre’ with the betting brand, along with offers and customer facilities. Dan Robinson, Retail Machine Manager UK and NI at BoyleSports, said on LinkedIn: “This one is by far the best Betting Shop in …

The small and sleepy Anglo-Welsh border town of Ross-on-Wye gained a new resident during the summer, as BoyleSports’ nationwide expansion of its betting shop operation hit the local high-street. Providing an update on the firm’s roadmap – which has since seen another location opened in Wigan – and its progress in the West Midlands town, Lee Otter, BoyleSports’ Director of …

Shutters may be closing across the UK’s high-streets, but BoyleSports is clearly not disheartened as its UK retail expansion continued this week.  The Irish bookmaker’s newest betting shop, located Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, has just completed its first full weekend of business, having opened on 19 August.  This marks the firm’s seventh UK opening since April, and brings its retail estate on …

Two establishments that are an almost universal feature across Britain’s high-streets and town centres are pubs and betting shops, both popular with millions of customers.  One thing that both the betting and pub/alcohol industries have in common, as argued by Ian Austin, Lord of Dudley in Politics Home this morning, is that they provide many people with a sense of …

High-street betting shops, like the many retail-based businesses, have taken a serious blow over the past two years – but that hasn’t dissuaded operators with an interest in the vertical.  One such firm that has gone full-steam ahead with a UK retail rollout is BoyleSports, which has long pursued an expansion outside the domestic Irish market where it first began …