Tag: Grosvenor

Following a challenging full year 2020/21, Rank CEO John O’Reilly welcomed the opportunity to update the regulations for Britain’s land-based casino sector.

Grosvenor Casino Sheffield is investing more than £1.5million to become the most innovative gaming and entertainment destination in South Yorkshire. Construction is underway to transform the Duchess Road club which once complete will be the only casino outside of London to offer an exhilarating range of new interactive gaming experiences. Set to launch this summer, the major refurbishment will see the...

The Rank Group has warned that lower consumer spending has impacted the number of gamblers visiting its casinos and bingo halls with the drop in patrons leading to the company forecasting a lower full-year profit and dropping its shares to a more than three-year low.   The group said on Thursday that revenue at Rank's Grosvenor casinos and Mecca bingo venues...

Grosvenor Casinos has revealed that one customer playing Ace King Suited at its Stockport casino walked away with £116,045 - the largest win from the game.   The casino group also named its Sheffield club as its “luckiest”, with 26 winners taking home a shared value of £206,823. The UK’s “luckiest” region, however, is currently London, with a total pay-out of...

The value of online gambling wagers will soar from just over $550bn (E490bn) this year to nearly $950bn (E850bn) by 2021, according to new data from UK-based Juniper Research.   Juniper’s latest research found that gambling activities were increasingly migrating to the online environment, with the majority of net growth attributable to users of mobile channels. It also argued that new...

An employment initiative to train unemployed people, some from disadvantaged backgrounds, for work in a new Grosvenor casino in Essex, UK, has enhanced recruitment for Rank Group.   A programme to train unemployed candidates for vacancies at Grosvenors in Southend-on-Sea has been delivered by national talent development company, Beyond 2030, led by former director of talent and academy at Wm Morrison...

UK operator Grosvenor Casinos has launched a new online sports betting service powered by Malta’s Kambi Group. The new offering is available on the Grosvenor website and grants the company’s 1.7m British customers a comprehensive range of betting experiences. “This is a really exciting time for Grosvenor and the Grosvenor sports betting experience is a key addition to our product set:...

The owner of the UK’s Grosvenor Casino brand, Rank Group, has publicised an interim management report, indicating that like-for-like revenue from its casino business grew by four per cent in the 19 weeks to May 8. Combined with income derived from its Mecca Bingo division, overall revenue at the company grew by three per cent. Cashflow from the Grosvenor side was...

UK casino operators have been quick to realise the benefits of Playtech’s cloud-based casino management system, and Grosvenor Casinos has become the latest to adopt the company’s cutting-edge Neon solution.   Playtech Retail, the land-based division of the world’s leading omni-channel gaming software and services supplier, Playtech, is to begin deploying its cutting-edge Neon casino management system across all 55 of...