It’s not all doom and gloom in the retail world. Beacon Entertainments are showing their commitment to bingo by rebranding themselves alongside adding a number of improvements to their halls. During the rebrand, the company will improve its existing Beacon clubs and re-name 3 others to expand the Beacon name. The group’s Riva Clubs at […]
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Cashcade and Gala In The News
I’m on the train at the moment on the way to the 4th Annual Online Bingo Summit in London. Just browsing through the news and there’s a couple of interesting stories worthy of note. First up is the news that the sale of Cashcade could be literally days away. EGaming Review has a piece that […]
VAT Reclaim Could Cause More Problems For Industry
Following my last post about the success of Mecca Bingo at their High Court appeal about their tax rebate, Bingo Supermarket has an interesting take on the ruling. Rather than saving the industry, it could actually cause some operators severe difficulties as banks take the rebate’s straight off them to cover outstanding debts. This then […]
Mecca Bingo Ban Long Standing Member
I have to start by saying that I find this story particularly shocking. According to the report in the Daily Mail, pensioner and longtime member of the Mecca Bingo, Rosalyn Clemson has been banned from every single Mecca Bingo in the UK. Her crime was organising a trip for other club members to a rival […]
2009 Online Bingo Award Nominations Announced
With the 2009 Online Bingo Summit barely weeks away, the nominations have been announced for the 2nd Annual Online Bingo Industry Awards. Interesting to note there’s been some changes in the way the votes will be awarded this year. Following last year’s event I had concerns that the voting for the event was unfair as […]
Online Bingo Battle – Virtue Fusion Vs St Minver
One other thing that’s caught my attention as well the last couple of weeks is the movement of sites from the St Minver network to Virtue Fusion. Rather than throw it in with the other rash of stories in the last post, it’s something I wanted to look at in a bit more detail, given […]
Bingo Splurge – Big Catch Up
It’s been a busy month for me, I’ve had a number of work related things to sort out, and spent almost a week in Amsterdam rubbing shoulders with operators and fellow webmasters at a couple of conferences targeting affiliates. There’s been a lot happening that I just haven’t had the chance to cover. So, for […]
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 […]
Gala Bingo Worthless!
Well, I’m sure that the many hundreds of thousands of members would disagree with the headline of the post, but The Times says otherwise. Following on from previous news about Gala Bingo’s parent group’s financial troubles comes the news that the private equity backers of Gala Coral are concerned that their £5billion pound investment is […]
