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GVC Revenues Up in First Quarter

5 April 2019 by Therese Williams

This story was published more than 4 years ago.

Betting group GVC Holdings has updated investors on the company's first quarter financial results, revealing higher revenues even though changes to fixed odds betting terminals have been introduced within the UK market.

The company's first quarter ended on March 30th, 2019 and saw the following results:

  • Net gaming revenues up 8%, due largely to virtual sports and higher bet numbers
  • UK retail revenues about flat
  • UK online revenues up 17%

The UK recently made the maximum bet on fixed odds betting terminals £2, down from the previous max of £100. This will likely see some short-term losses in the machines, but could see money being spent on other gambling verticals, particularly online. GVC oversees massive betting firms bwin, Coral, Ladbrokes, Gala Casino, and partypoker, so it's likely they'll be able to weather this low-bet storm.

Commenting on the results GVC CEO Kenneth Alexander said, "We continue to see good volume growth across all major online brands and territories and we remain very confident of achieving our target of double-digit online NGR growth. The impact of soft gross win margins in Italy and the UK was offset by improved margins in other territories, demonstrating the benefit of both geographic and product diversification across the Group."

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Therese Williams // UK Correspondent
Therese Williams
Therese is a fervent fan of slot machines and pub fruities, often trying her luck at some of the top online casinos. She covers news for Casino Listings with a focus on the UK and Europe. Therese studied arts and creative writing at university and has written for newspapers in the UK.
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18 April 2019 - 1:08pm
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The gambling operators have been against and generally so concerned about the lowering the max stake to the betting terminals in UK but as we could see from the Therese article above there's not too much harm done because of that and I guess as she suggested there some of the money the players would of spend on the machines would ended up being gambled online anyway so...business as usual I guess.