My buying shares in a company must be a kiss of death. We won’t mention the Woolworth shares as I should have known better at the time, but when I bought some in Top Ten Holdings PLC, the UK’s 3rd largest bingo chain, I thought I was getting a bargain. Then they lost 90% of […]
Category: News
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Interview With Simon Collins, Director Of Cashcade Ltd
Following the launch of Posh Bingo last week, I thought it would be a good opportunity to do something I’ve been aiming to do for a while now and catch up with Cashcade’s Simon Collins about the success of Cheeky Bingo. Simon agreed to do an interview for the site, which you can read here. […]
Mecca Bingo Branching Out – Rock N Roll And Teacher Bingo
A couple of nice little stories today that would indicate Mecca Bingo are thinking a bit outside the box and expanding the ways they market the game and broaden its appeal. First up, news from Leeds that Mark Walsh has invented what sounds like a cross between bingo and pop-quizzes, Rock And Roll Bingo. The […]
Bingo Calling Minister And New Hall News
Bit of a grab bag of recent stories I’ve been to busy to focus on, but which I think are worthy of note. First up, the Foreign Secretary David Miliband had a stint as a bingo caller alongside the still reigning Bingo Caller Of The Year Blake Robson. The MP was invited to call to […]
Posh And Gala Offering Free Bingo With Cash Prizes
Well, I had wondered how long it would be before Cheeky Bingo found itself a competitor. Cheeky Bingo made a big splash a couple of months back as the UK’s first play for free and win cash site, in which time it’s grown from nothing to a major player in the online bingo marketplace. I […]
Gala Bingo Game Rigging Incident
I’d have got to this story earlier, but I was away most of the week taking a break from the internet and all. It’s a pretty staggering story really, and I’d love to know more about the actual mechanics of what went on how the people involved were able to affect the outcome of the […]
Mecca Bingo 2.0 – New Club At Beeston
It’s good to see Mecca Bingo are fighting back against the malaise in the retail industry, bucking the trend of club closures and the lack of imagination in where to take the game. Their prime weapon is a new club to be opened in Beeston, Nottingham. This is what they have to say about it: […]
Bingo Bonus Blaster – A Quick Review (Buyer Beware)
I’ve been seeing an increasing amount of spam recently for something called Bingo Bonus Blaster, a so-called no-risk system for making it big playing online bingo. Intrigued by the premise I set off to find out more. It seems the people behind this system are going on a big hype offensive – the site for […]
Rank Execs Buying Shares
It was interesting to see a number of large share purchases by execs at the Rank Group. According to ShareCast, last week the chief executive Ian Burke doubled his shareholdings in the company and this week finance director Paddy Gallagher has also bought a large number of shares. A couple of things could be going […]
Could E-Cig Save The Bingo Industry?
There’s been a lot of press and comment around an incident at Rio Bingo in Canvey Island where pensioner Helen Skinner was asked to leave the hall for smoking an electronic cigarette. I say smoking, but the truth of the matter is there was no actual smoking going on as the cigarette she was inhaling […]
