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Sportingbet Plc Sportingbet Plc is quoted on the London Aim Stock Exchange
(SBT),
under the sub sector Gambling. It was first listed in January 2001. Sportingbet
offers many different websites in 26 languages. Sportingbet main site sportingbet.com is available in the following suffices ,
.com.au, .bg, .dk, .cz, .fr, .hr, .hu, .no, .it, .pl, .ru, .se, .sl, .th,
.zh serving the specific
countries. It also owns the following sportsbooks, deltasportsbet, SportingOdds,
Superbahis, miapusta, sb28. Poker through its Paradisepoker
one of the leading poker sites on the web. Casino games offered
at Sportingbet Casino
and through its sportsbook's including
SportingOdds
Casino
Sportingbet Plc Company Announcements 4th June 2008 announced its results for the third quarter ended 30 April 2008. Turnover up 25.4% to £364.6m (2007 £290.8m), profit up 143.3% to £7.3m (2007: £3.0m) , Diluted earnings per share* of 1.2p (2007: 0.7p). During the quarter, approximately 13.9% of Group net gaming revenue was sourced through the Turkish language domain compared to 25.8% in Quarter 2 29th May 2008 2 UK based employees of Sportingbet have been detained by Turkish authorities whils on holiday in Turkey. They have been detained in connection with Sportingbet Turkish based Sportsbook Superbahis 4th March 2008 Results for second quarter ending 31st January 2008, Turnover up 29.5% to £364.7m (2007 £281.6m), Group operating profit up 275% to £7.5m (2007 £2.0m), Diluted Earnings per share of 1.4p (2007: 0.5p), Acquisition of Bulgarian marketing partner for an initial consideration of £4.0m and deferred consideration of up to £7.2m 28th December 2007 In a AGM statement sportingbet announced "I am pleased to report that Sportingbet is trading in line with market expectations. The strong performance outlined in our recent Q1 results continues as we now move into one of the busiest periods for the Group 11th December 2007 Sportingbet announced 1st Quarter results to 31st October 2007, Pre-exceptional profit before tax of £1.5m (2006 £1.1m), Statutory Group loss of £1.7m (2006 loss of £240.9m), Diluted earnings per share* of 0.8p (2006: 0.3p), Highlights included European sports betting gaming revenue up 27%, 28th August 2007 Following an outbreak of Equine Influenza in in Australia, many of Australia's race meetings over the weekend and coming week have been cancelled. But Australian horseracing only accounts for approximately 7% of Group gross margin 4th July 2007 The possible takeover over Sportingbet by Bbwin Interactive Entertainment AG has now been mutually and amicably discontinued.
7th March 2007
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