Paddy Power is an Irish bookmaker founded in Dublin in 1988 from the merger of three retail bookmaking businesses, now part of Flutter Entertainment following its 2016 merger with Betfair. It operates several hundred betting shops in Ireland and Britain and an online sportsbook, casino, bingo and games business licensed by the Gambling Commission and the Irish regulator, and is known for irreverent marketing campaigns and money-back promotions. Paddy Power is Flutter's largest brand in Ireland and one of its largest in Britain, and shares Flutter's UK and Ireland platform with Betfair and Sky Betting and Gaming.
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The Gambling Commission's 2025/26 report shows online casino up 14.8% to £5.7bn, adding more than the entire market gained. Online betting fell 6.6%, bingo fell, 208 betting shops closed before this year's cull began. The survey says participation is flat at 49%. The day after the Lords called for an advertising ban, the regulator's own numbers explain why the product mix is the argument.
Chancellor John Healey is said to be weighing an increase to the duty on gaming machines, a year after remote gaming duty went from 21% to 40%. A doubling would take the three bands to 10%, 40% and 50%, and analysts have told the Racing Post it would cost nearly 3,000 betting shops and around £70m of the racing levy.
Flutter has put a number on the retail review it declined to quantify in August. Up to 100 of 506 shops go before the end of the year, with about 400 jobs at risk, and the company names the Budget.
Flutter Entertainment has announced that Peter Jackson will leave as group chief executive on 1 October, handing over to international president Dan Taylor at a moment when US sportsbook revenue has fallen 15% year-on-year and the company's market capitalisation has dropped from $50 billion to below $20 billion in under a year.
Flutter Entertainment will cancel its London listing on 3 August 2026 and trade only on the NYSE, formalising a pivot to a US business that now supplies 41% of group revenue. The exit lands amid a brutal UK tax squeeze, but Flutter's own filings suggest growth and investors, not duty rises, are what pulled it west.
With a full estate sale off the table and cost pressures mounting, Entain is cutting deep in Ireland. The retail betting shop is becoming an endangered species on both sides of the Irish Sea.
A serious error by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has prematurely revealed the UK government's plan to impose a punitive tax hike on the online
Sky Bet, a major brand under the Flutter Entertainment umbrella, has shifted its sports betting operations headquarters to Malta. This structural change,
The Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) has issued a stark warning about the potentially devastating economic impact gambling tax increases could have on the UK.
Betfred co founder Fred Done warns a UK gambling tax hike could force closure of all betting shops, risking 7,500 jobs & boosting the black market.
Another week, another whirlwind. If you've had your head down in meetings, you might have missed some serious power plays across the globe. The running theme?
The fierce debate over the future of UK gambling taxation has taken a dramatic turn, after Stewart Kenny, a co-founder of industry giant Paddy Power, publicly
Flutter Entertainment's UK and Ireland division has confirmed a customer data incident impacting its prominent Paddy Power and Betfair brands. The breach,
As Royal Ascot concluded, leading UK bookmakers delivered their annual Britannia Stakes charity donation, with all profits from this year’s race being shared