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UK – Mecca Bingo opens welcome area for new players
Mecca Bingo has created a brand-new welcome area and online room with exclusive games for ‘newbies’ on its award-winning website, Meccabingo.com. The all-new welcome page includes tutorials and how to videos, and features a dedicated room, exclusive to newcomers, called First Time Lucky, which offers a supportive environment where newcomers can chat and learn to…
UK – Mecca Bingo Luton to reopen on March 21
Following a multi-million pound renovation and months of meticulous building work, the long-awaited reopening of Mecca Bingo Luton now has an official date. From 11am on Monday March 21, guests will be able to visit the state-of-the-art new club to play bingo, grab a bite to eat and see the stylish and comfortable new venue…
UK – Rank to recoup almost £80m due to VAT on slots
Rank Group, operator of the Grosvenor Casinos and Mecca Bingo brands in the UK, will receive a refund of £77.5m ($104.04m) from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the British tax authority, over value-added taxes paid on slot machine revenue between 2006 and 2013. Other betting companies are expecting a windfall as a result of the…
UK – Mecca broke a Guinness World Records title on the occasion of its 60th birthday
Mecca Bingo has celebrated its 60th birthday this weekend by breaking a Guinness World Records title. It was certainly a night to remember on Saturday 13th November, as Mecca announced to all customers, staff and bingo lovers that it officially broke the Guinness World Records title for the most videos of birthday wishes/greetings uploaded to…
UK – Celebrities are helping Mecca to break Guinness World Records
Mecca Bingo is calling on customers and bingo lovers across the country to help attempt break an official Guinness World Records title by recording over 5,000 video birthday messages. To celebrate its 60th birthday this year, Mecca is attempting to break a new record title by creating the largest online video album of happy birthday…
UK – Mecca Bingo looks to break Guinness World Record
Mecca Bingo is calling on customers and bingo lovers across the country to help attempt break an official Guinness World Records title by recording over 5,000 video birthday messages. To celebrate its 60th birthday this year, Mecca is attempting to break a new record title by creating the largest online video album of happy birthday messages, from…
UK – Mecca looking to redefine British bingo with Luton relaunch
Mecca Bingo announces it will be relaunching its club in Luton this December, which is set to redefine the future of the UK’s original bingo brand, enticing new and existing customers to experience the unexpected as a new surge of bingo fans have taken to halls since reopening in May. As part of a wider…
UK – Rank’s revenues savaged by closures but non-London casinos back at 98 per cent of pre-pandemic levels
With 79 per cent of the Rank Group’s revenue being derived from its venues businesses, closures imposed in the Government’s response to the pandemic amounting to 59 per cent of available operating days together with capacity constraints, and reduced opening hours have seen revenues fall by 50 per cent, giving an operating loss of £67m….
UK – Rank to deploy real-time ‘Hawkeye’ system as part of Safer Gambling rollout
The Rank Group have developed an innovative real-time safer gambling monitoring desk as part of the group’s continued roll-out of safer gambling measures. The Grosvenor casino and Mecca bingo owner has invested significantly in the firm’s Customer support hub in order to identify, more swiftly, customer online behaviour that may require interventions, building on real-time…
