 | Bet365 is now an exclusively online gambling company offering sports betting, poker, casino games, and bingo, as well as video streams on sporting events. bet365 still has on course bookmaking services provided by a small team of bookmakers.
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 | Betfair is the world's largest betting exchange, with over 2,000,000 clients and a turnover in excess of £50m/week. Betfair claim that on average the odds available are 15% better than those offered by a fixed-odds bookmaker.
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 | Betdaq is the trading name of Global Betting Exchange, a betting exchange operator based in Ireland and the second largest betting exchange operator in the market. The company claims to handle in excess of £20M worth of bets every week.
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 | Betfred is named after its frontman and co-founder Fred Done. First established as a single shop in Ordsall, Salford, in 1967, the company has more than 700 UK betting shops with claims to be the world's biggest privately owned betting company.
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 | Blue Square is The Rank Group's interactive gaming business launched on 5 May 1999 with products that have grown from its traditional bookmaking business to now offer all aspects of the gaming market including online casino, slots and online poker.
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 | Boylesports is Ireland's largest independent bookmaker. Established by John Boyle in 1989, its stated mission is to create a 'modern sports betting service'. Boylesports employs over 900 people and has 250 retail branches in Ireland and the UK.
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 | Coral is the third largest bookmaker and fastest growing bookmaker in Britain, and currently has over 1800 betting shops. In existence since 1926 when Joe Coral began his bookmaking business the company also incorporates Gala Bingo and Gala Casinos.
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 | The largest betting company in the UK and largest retail bookmaker in the world, Ladbrokes owns over 2,200 retail betting shops. It also operates several online gambling websites offering sportsbook, poker, casino, games, bingo and backgammon.
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 | Paddy Power is Ireland's largest bookmaker. Offline it conducts business through a chain of licensed betting offices and by operating Ireland's largest telephone betting service. Online it offers sports betting, online poker, online bingo and online casino games.
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 | Sky Bet is the sports betting division of Sky Betting & Gaming. The company allows betting via website, telephone, mobile phone and interactive television through Sky Digital. It's one of the few sports betting companies not to operate traditional high street shops.
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 | Sportingbet operates sportsbooks, virtual games and casino sites, and the online poker site, Paradise Poker. Overall, the company has over 2.5 million registered customers in 200 countries, who place over one million bets (casino, poker, sports and virtual games) per day.
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 | Stan James was founded in 1973 by entrepreneur Steve Fisher. It started with a few shops and then a telephone betting service set up above one of the premises. It has since grown to become one of the most successful bookmakers in the UK.
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 | The Horserace Totalisator Board, (The Tote), is a British bookmaker with head offices in Wigan. Under the brand totesport the Tote has over 540 high street betting shops, outlets on Britain's 60 racecourses, as well as internet and call centre divisions.
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 | Victor Chandler is a bookmaker and chairman of the company that bears his name, Victor Chandler International. The company offers online sports betting, casino, poker and games.
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 | Founded by William Hill in 1934, the Company operates in the UK, Eire and Spain. As well as its online sportsbook operations, the company also offers online casino games, skill games, online bingo and online poker.
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