Parlay Acquirer Succeeding
NetPlay has released the company’s first quarter results for the year and it’s
looking to be a successful year already. The online casinos and bingo gambling
industries excelled in the first quarter of the year, so the success of the
growing gambling industry, coupled with strategic investments the previous year
bode well for continued stability into the rest of 2008. NetPlay specializes in
interactive television, but the company diversified it’s offerings into the
online casino gambling sector of the gaming industry with the acquisition of
Parlay Entertainment – an internet bingo software developer.
The previous year was very lucrative for the company with several varied
acquisition which are now beginning to payoff. In addition to Parlay, NetPlay
acquired an actual online casino bingo gambling site, Bingos.com. The current
CEO of NetPlay, Martin Higginson, comments on the latest results report
released, “It is extremely encouraging to see the strategic investment decisions
we made in 2007 beginning to show excellent results in 2008. We firmly believe
in the future commercial strengths of a converged gaming offering.”
Convergence and integration seem to be the name of the game in the online
casinos industry. The more a company is diversified the more chance it
has to weather some of the down periods and slumps that are inherent to any
industry. As for the specifics of NetPlay’s 2007 growth – the recent figures
indicate a 62 percent growth in the company over throughout 2007. The current
company strategy now includes cultivating the new acquisitions rather than
specifically seeking to acquire new companies. |