Sportech

Sportech PLC

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Company type	Public LSE: SPO
Industry	Internet, Computer software
Headquarters	London , United Kingdom
Area served	Worldwide
Products	See list of Sportech products
Website	sportechplc.com

Sportech PLC is an online gambling and entertainment company headquartered in the UK, is quoted on the London Stock Exchange and comes under the FTSE All-Share; FTSE Small CAP Index in the Leisure, Entertainment and Hotels Sector(SUB SECTOR: GAMING). The company was originally set up as electronics company specialising in hard disks, based in Scotland. Its former name was Rodime PLC, and only in the year 2000, did the company change its name to Sportech PLC, after acquiring Littlewoods Gaming from The Littlewoods Organisation for £161m.

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Football Pools

Littlewoods Littlewoods football pools Football Pools was founded in 1923 by Sir John Moores, Vernons in 1925 and Zetters in 1933.

The National Lottery National Lottery, which was introduced in 1994, offered higher jackpots. This led to the decrease in popularity of the football pools. The decrease in players of the football pools went from a peak of 10 million in 1994 to 700,000 in 2007.[2] Subsequently, Vernons closed its pools operation in February 1998, but ran a partnered lottery-base game with National Lottery during the 1998-9 football season. This helped it resume its business operations thereafter.

In 2000, Littlewoods Pools was sold for £161 million by Littlewoods Gaming, a division of Sportech PLC. Additionally, Sportech bought Zetters in 2002 and Vernons in 2007, and rebranded the product as The New Football Pools during summer 2008.

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