How Much is it Worth?
The UK government has rejected the last offer from those companies involved in
the UK racing industry and now announced that Tote is up for public sale. Tote
is a state owned land and online casinos betting company that has one of the
longest operating histories in the UK and operates an extensive betting system
within country’s horse racing industry. Tote has been in negotiation for sale
for nearly four years at this point and all of those deals have fallen through
essentially because of the willingness of companies to make an adequate offer
for Tote based on the company’s estimated net worth.
The UK government gave the racing industry several opportunities to place
adequate bids for tote, but all of those were still rejected. With the several
bids from the land and online casinos racing industry rejected, the Tote is open
to publicly other companies. This is very disappointing for the Consortium,
which assert that the UK government made a promise to sell Tote to the racing
industry. But the fact is, the European Commission is largely responsible for
negating the Consortium’s latest bid for Tote – the bids are low enough to be
considered state aid, which is not fair to others in the land and online casinos
gambling industry.
So now that Tote has been opened up to all of the land and online casinos
gambling and betting companies, speculation abounds about which companies are
likely to place bids for Tote. Industry giants will likely be excluded from
making bids because of concerns over monopolies, but there are certainly growing
betting and gambling companies that could benefit from Tote’s extensive existing
betting shops and online gambling site. A few that are likely to at least
consider buying Tote are both Paddy Power and Gala Coral – these two companies
are both growing within the industry but are still small enough that they could
greatly benefit by purchasing Tote. |