December 2007 Archives
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The UK's bingo industry could be in real trouble due to bingo player numbers in just 12 months, killed off by the bingo hall smoking ban. A total of 20,000 UK bingo jobs are at risk unless the Government takes action, Bingo industry chiefs warned.
They revealed a third of the UK 548 bingo halls are under threat of closure.
Bingo giant Mecca Bingo has frozen all Bingo hall expansion plans and cancelled dividend payments to shareholders, with its share price halved compared to the same time last year.
Bingo halls have lost 600,000 players since the smoking ban on bingo halls in England and Wales. Smokers who remain are playing less because they spend time outside to smoke.
Before the ban, three million people were playing offline bingo in an average week. Now experts fear the industry could be wiped out in 2008. Steve Baldwin of the UK Bingo Association said: "It's frightening to think that a pastime bingo that has given pleasure to millions could disappear within a year."
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Film theatres are finding a new use for the big screens - as giant game systems that let hundreds of people play at the same time
Film theatres, mainly in Europe so far, are experimenting with turning their big screens into giant video game systems. It's a way of putting the cinemas to use during off-peak hours and adding new attractions to feature showings.
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The popular MeccaBingo.com and land-based bingo operator has authorised Qire to begin a dialogue with Mecca's customers in order to gain an insight to it their Bingo customer needs.
Duke Street Capital has made an offer to buy MeccaBingo, the beleaguered offline and online bingo operator.
Duke Street have previously worked with Brian Mattingley, one-time finance director at GalaBingo in relation to a play for Buckingham Bingo. Duke Street knows Mattingley well. The firm supported him when it financed the management buyout of Ritz Bingo in 1997 from the old Vardon leisure conglomerate. The Ritz Bingo deal was done, at a time when many people felt that the lottery would kill off the game of bingo. RitzBingo was later sold to Mecca's great rival GalaBingo for a healthy profit. It is rummored Duke Street have in the past made other approaches to various UK bingo businesses. So they clearly have a desire to be back in the UK Bingo game.
MeccaBingo has already dinged out Harrah's earlier this year, the American casino company.
The Times claims the Mecca Bingo board is not keen to pursue a deal at this stage and the two sides are thought not to be holding talks. Both parties declined to comment on the report from The Times. Mecca has been the subject of market speculation in recent weeks following a downturn in trading at its bingo arm in the wake of the UK smoking ban. Genting picked up a 10% stake as we prievously reported, though this was more to block Harrah's move apparently while a rich property developer has also built a stake thought to be 10%.
Other parties that could be interested in bidding for Mecca Bingo include 888.com, Aspers.com, a joint venture between Damian Aspinall and the Australian tycoon James Packer, and Ladbrokes.com, the high street bookmaker.
Ian Burke Meecca's top man said the group was not planning to close any of its 100 bingo clubs despite the current tough banking situation for the Mecca Group which forced them to cancel a dividened payment of over £15M to shareholders.
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Robert Graves, known to everyone as Mr Bob. Was credited with bringing bingo to Cumbria has died recently at the age of 91.
When 888 announced an agreement with Rank's online betting shop Blue Square to use its bookmaking capabilities to enable 888poker and 888roulette players to get a punt on the football or the horses without leaving for another website. There was talk of a merger and why not Mecca Bingo has been smacked hard by the smoking ban and a tie up with such an excellent online business could turn Mecca Bingo Online into something very serious. s yet their is no wider tie-up between the two companies, whose share prices have been depressed by 888's withdrawal from the US and Rank's loss of business at its Mecca bingo halls but with Genting and others piling into Mecca shares maybe we should watch this space.
The sale of Butlins, Odeon Cinemas, Pinewood filme-long disposal programme, Rank has little room for manoeuvre studios and Hard Rock cafe may have looked sensible at the time. Boss Ian Burke is stuck between a rock and a hard place.
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In 2006 MSN announced that MSN UK launched MSN Bingo on the Bingos.co.uk platform. MSN Bingo Players could access MSNBingo by going to uk.msn.com and clicking on Games. "We are extremely proud to welcome MSN UK to our family of partners," said Dominic Mansour, CEO of the Euro Gaming Limited Group of companies, which operates Bingos.co.uk. "The fact that MSN Bingo UK is now part of our UKbingo platform confirms our status as a market leader in the United Kingdom. It is also recognition of the quality and integrity of our bingo games, and of the vibrant bingo community we host.
All change however come 2007 when VirginBingo took over MSNBingo.
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StrandBingo carried out a customer survey after the ban and found 87% of their bingo players said the change on smoking had been positive.
This is the first time a UK Bingo hall has discoved an overwhelming number of bingo players now support the smoking ban.
With 2007 drawing to a close, Gala Bingo has announced the prize money given out so far as part of its High Five bingo promotion.
UK bingo players taking part in the bingo competition have scooped £2.5 million in total bingo prizes in the past three months, Gala Bingo claims.
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Four Mecca Bingo callers took to the stage of the prestigious Bingo Caller of the Year competition, which took place in London on 25th November at Mecca Wood Green.
The Mecca finalists included Mark Lunn from Mecca Wednesbury Cross, Blake Robson from Mecca South Shields, Will Willard from Mecca Cwmbran and James Cook from Mecca Fountain Park.
The callers performed in front of a packed house and a tough judging panel which included Emmerdale star Lorraine Chase.
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Proud mum Mandy celebrates her bingo jackpot win, for a super market shelf stacker Christmas came early.
Mandy Bunker won £10,635 on DailyStarBingo and according to the paper she has already spent her small fortune.
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GalaBingo, the UK bingo gaming company behind ever-popularonline bingo hall Gala Bingo, has signed a deal with WagerWorks in which the later will provide Gala Bingo with Monopoly, Wheel of Fortune, Elvis, The 50 000 Pyramid, The Price Is Right Bingo, Jeopardy and Cluedo, together with the recently released Mega Jackpots.
Gala Bingo Online actually raised profits but worried that Smoking ban and Tax could hit Bingo growth.
GalaBingo Online is a privately held online Bingo group which also has many offline bingo clubs. Government Bingo changes and charges could hit them hard in 2008 despite 2007 stellar results, changes such as the loss of Section 21 gaming machines and steep increases in VAT duty for Bingo.
Probably the most interesting news for GalaBingoOnline Shareholders concerns Gala's plans for China and Asia. Online Gala Bingo has just secured a licence from the Chinese province of Hebei to open what will be a Chinise bingo club. Chinese gamble with both hands so no doubt this new avenue will be a very successful one for Gala Online. The Chinese are quite superstisious so they will no doubt be enamoured by the numbers involved in Gala Bingo games.
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