Gala Coral Group

Markets

Gala Bingo is the premiere bingo operator in the UK, and this business focuses on the 138 different bingo clubs across the UK. Their focus on the retail bingo allows them to provide the best service for customers with attention paid to every aspect of the bingo club experience ranging from hanging out with friends, having a great food service, or hitting the jackpot.

Gala Casino’s focus is on the 25 different casinos they run across the UK and Gibraltar. While this may seem like a very narrow focus, especially as only one of these casinos is in Gibraltar, this allows the company to tailor their offering directly to the locations.

Eurobet Italia’s focus is their Italian market division. They operate over 400 brick and mortar locations, as well as online gaming sites. This team’s focus is on offering competitive sports betting, as well as maintaining compliance with local laws regarding their online poker, bingo, lottery games and more.

Coral Interactive just may be their fastest growing division. Their focus is on the online, mobile and telephone games. Founded in 1998 and relaunched in 2012, this new platform boasts the market’s widest variety of mobile betting and mobile gaming options. This allows players to use one wallet system to transfer seamlessly between a wide variety of all the newest and most cutting edge in mobile gaming. Coral Interactive is one of the fastest growing and changing of all the Gala Coral businesses, with an ever-expanding range of sports betting options, and new games to play. Coral Interactive is committed to providing the best mobile gaming atmosphere. They do this by not only focusing on providing a wide range of games and wagering options, but also supporting promotions, loyalty programs, rewards, and knowledgeable customer service.

Gala Interactive is the youngest division of the Gala Coral Group. This does not make them the smallest, however. With the brand new releases of galacasino.com and galabingo.com and their associated affiliates programs, Gala Interactive is one of the fastest growing and exciting divisions offered by Gala Coral. Galabingo.com gives away over 600 jackpots every day- over £2 million total! They pride themselves on a large number of winners, which of course draws in more traffic and more players. GalaBingo.com produces more winners than any other bingo site online- and as they are constantly adding more games, more promotions, and more bonuses, they will only produce more with time. There are over 300 slot and table games for players to enjoy, as well as over 40 progressive jackpots. On top of this, the software is provided by the well-known and respected PlayTech, and their poker site is a part of the iPoker network.

Gala Coral’s License and Financials

Gala Coral boasts a full GamCare accreditation on all UK divisions, and is the first company to receive this accreditation across all three facets: Retail Betting, Gala Gaming, and Remote (Mobile) Gambling. Every manager in both their casinos and bingo clubs have received this training. Likewise, every new incoming employee receives this training.

What this means is that GamCare regularly visits the casinos and bingo clubs that they have accredited to ensure that they are following the Code of Practice required to maintain this certification. GamCare’s entire purpose is to ensure that there is support for, and policies to help prevent problem gambling. To be certified, any gaming establishment must prove they have policies in place to correctly verify age, as well as provide tools for players to self-limit the amount of time and money spent. They also prefer self-exclusion tools, which players can set up to limit their gambling ability by setting up rules to disallow themselves certain actions such as deposits. Free play, staff training, as well as clearly visible information on responsible gambling are all important tools to maintain certification. This GamCare certificate is only valid for 1 year, so it is regularly renewed and businesses must continue to adhere to the standards to maintain their certification.

Who Runs Gala Coral?

Gala Coral’s main headquarters are located in London, England, where they are registered. Rob Templeman is the Non-Executive Chairman. He boasts over two decades worth of experience in retain, and has a long history of chief executive positions to give him experience.

Carl Leaver is Gala Coral’s Group Chief Executive. His background is heavily consumer oriented, and has a steady record of accomplishment of increasing profit and successfully growing the business through restructuring and building on to the existing business.

Paul Bowtell is the Chief Financial Officer, who joined Gala Coral in 2011. He has a resume full of senior finance roles to give him the necessary background.

Andy Hornby is the Coral Chief Executive, with experience from working with a number of blue chip organizations as well as an MBA from Harvard where he graduated at the top of his class.

Barry Hardy, Don Korstein, Wilf Walsh, and Charles Atwood are all Non-Executive board members. They each have a history in the gambling industry, bringing to the Gala Coral boardroom a wealth of experience and information.