Overview
Employees
10000+ employees
Headquarters
London, England (UK)
Ladbrokes plc is a leader in the global betting and gaming market with annual Group revenues of more than £1 billion.Ladbrokes plc operates as a betting and gaming company. As of December 31, 2008, the company owned and operated a network of 2,600 retail betting shops in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Belgium. It also operates betting facilities at various FA premiership grounds and various racecourses. In addition, the company involves in telephone betting activities that serves customers through its call centers in London, Liverpool, and Kuala Lumpur. Further, it operates a remote betting and gaming site, Ladbrokes.com that provides online betting and gaming services. It has a joint venture agreement with Groupe CANAL+ to launch of an online betting and gaming service in France.The company was formerly known as Hilton Group plc and changed its name to Ladbrokes plc in 2006. Ladbrokes plc was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in Harrow, the United Kingdom. Ladbrokes will take that bet -- on anything from sports to politics to unique speculations. Ladbrokes makes odds online, over the phone, and at its more than 2,700 retail betting shops in the UK, Ireland, Belgium, and Spain. The company's websites offer a variety of gaming products (such as poker and bingo), as well as betting operations on a host of international sporting events, and boasts more than 800,000 customers. Betting is available via about a dozen localized websites in nine different languages that support more than 15 currencies. Ladbrokes origins date back to 1886, when racehorse trainer Arthur Bendir set up a partnership in the English village of Ladbroke to take bets on horse races.
