17. Rank Group (2017)
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Rank’s ongoing digital overhaul has dominated the UK-based firm’s movements this year.
Online revenues were up 15% in the firm’s full-year results, largely thanks to benefits accrued from its Bede Gaming platform and improving live casino and poker products.
Grosvenor Casinos far outshone Mecca in the 12-month period after recording 44% revenue growth compared to a more modest 2% from the bingo brand.
Rank cut costs this year by restructuring and combining both its Mecca and Grosvenor digital teams and closing down its Victoria office, while Grosvenor also signed its first major sponsorship deal with Fulham FC to market its new Kambi-powered sportsbook.
In July, the first of Rank’s new “convenience-gambling” bingo shops was unveiled, and the launch of its online Luda.com offering could be a major turning point for the operator next year.