Bracing for Some Lows
The online casino gambling industry has been boasting pretty heavily lately
about the fact that the recession is having only minor effects on many of the
top internet gambling brands. But that is not the case across the board and some
internet gambling companies, like Will Hill, are bracing themselves for a bit of
a storm over the next couple of years. Will Hill was in a pretty tight position
over the past year – it has been trying to recover from some serious debt that
was incurred during some failed attempts to offer new gaming products for its
online casinos and sportsbetting site.
In the most recent reports out of Will Hill, the company is prepared to continue
to show some small declines in revenues as the recession continues to hit online
casino gamblers full force throughout 2009 and 2010. Will Hill has GBP 1.2
million in debt right now and the company is looking for new and creative ways
to dig itself out of the weight of the debt without relying solely on gambling
revenues from its online casinos, sportsbetting, and land betting divisions.
According to the most recent communication, Will Hill is looking to raise GBP
350 million in cash to assist the company in refinancing some of the debt. Many
online casinos and internet gambling companies have been a part of the huge
surge in internet gambling activity that occurred just several years ago – this
boom was huge and quite lucrative for most of the major gambling brands on the
market. With the recession though and the slowing economies all over the world,
the company just has to for a bit until the market picks back up. |