William Hill Set to Relocate to Gibraltar

Monday August 13, 2007

High-profile bookmaker and online gambling group William Hill PLC is set to relocate its online gambling arm from Netherlands Antilles influence the Caribbean to Gibraltar. Sources claim that the action is linked to the impending introduction of the UK Government's ban on advertising gambling websites that operate frontage of the European Economic Area.

Gibraltar, an EEA domain, is ad hoc down home to the online gambling services of leading companies akin being Ladbrokes International Limited, 888 Holdings Plc and PartyGaming Plc. Other online gambling companies that may committal to come next suit admit Betfred Casino and Betfred Poker, Inter Poker and Littlewoods Casino who again operate from Netherlands Antilles.

The advertising ban will bow 1 September and relates to all forms of gambling advertising including TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, taxis, buses, the cylinder and some websites.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport verbal real will effect roughly 1,000 gambling websites.