Bingo operator Rank Group has showed signs of optimism as bingo and casino business seem to be growing after twelve difficult months. Also, the company is pleased with changes to come concerning gaming regulations and VAT rulings. Revenue in Grosvenor Casino grew 14 per cent while revenue in Mecca Bingo went up 2 per cent, compared with 2007.
Last year, Rank suffered the effects of the smoking ban and the Gambling Act, and revenues went down 8 per cent in one year.
Ladbrokes, the leading bookmarker in the UK, Ireland and Belgium and a world-leader in remote gambling, has recently launched its latest and definitely most original Bingo ad campaign created by M&C Saatchi.
The campaign involves a bunch of clear Bingo balls which roll around over the streets of Liverpool with players inside, but although this sounds like a new thing, it is actually a sport called sphering or zorbing, where a “prisoner” inside a huge inflatable spherical jail travels down hills.
According to a study released recently, the Spanish players spend 416 Euros in average per year playing Bingo, Slots and other Casino Games. The study was made by the Internal Affairs Ministry of Spain and is based on data collected during 2007.
The average spend in these games varies according to the region of Spain that we are looking at. In top of the chart ranks the region of Baleares with 541 Euros per person.
Over 300 letters were sent by neighbours of the Art Deco Bingo Hall in Hove, over to the builders of the Downland Housing Assosiation. The letters objected the conversion of the Gala Bingo hall (which has been closed for three years) into 38 apartments and a surgical intervention establishment.
The chairman for the area’s association said that: “I’m disappointed the developers would not consult with neighbours before a new application is submitted."
Several Canadian charities have been benefited by a program that allows them to volunteer their time at a bingo center in exchange for a percentage of the profits. This week, the charities that took part in the program over the past year received a cheque for $1.448.972 from the hands of Barrie MPP Aileen Carroll.
“I want to thank the volunteers because the result of your work and the impact your work has on so many charities here in Barrie is astounding,” Carroll said during the ceremony.
A grandmother from the city of Hastings in Southeast England is celebrating big time after scooping a huge jackpot at her local bingo club and is willing to fulfill all her postponed dreams with this money.
The 71-year-old woman came across a total prize of £339,000 – almost 450,000 euros – playing at the Bingo Deluxe club. This prize was given as part of the National Game Platinum Jackpot.
A not so frequent experience and an opportunity that regular players of online bingo won’t want to miss will take place this January in England, where an online gambling company will offer its costumers the possibility to play free online bingo just for this month.
To be part of the promotion, players will only have to log on to the site or watch the exclusive TV channel of this online bingo company. The promotion will be available just for four days in January.
The online bingo operator known as Bingo Fabulous has claimed that, thanks to the approval of the smoking ban imposed in Scotland, the membership to his online bingo site has surprisingly raised a considerable 40 per cent.
The marketing manager of the Bingo Fabulous, Aviva Lange, talked about the phenomenon and said: “Even though there are many factors that may be causing this unexpected growth, as it could be the very heavy promotion of our bingo brand that is taking place in the UK market, we honestly believe that the smoking ban has turned out to be an influencing factor”.
Despite the recent high-profile indictments of the founder and CEO of Internet gambling company BetOnSports, it does not appear that online gamblers in most U.S. states have any reason to fear prosecution - at least not by the federal government, according to an article published by Yahoo.
The exception, says the article, is Washington State, where gamblers could be charged with a felony under recently passed legislation.
The Provincial Institute of Lottery and Casinos has extended the licenses of the 46 bingo parlors in the province of Buenos Aires for 15 years.
The cost of the licenses was one thousand million Argentinean pesos.
The expiration date for the licenses is June 30th, 2021.
