Growth Surprising in Both Industries
The Rank Group is a very well established land and online casino gambling group
operating in the UK gambling market in particular. The company is pretty unique
from the rest of the industry though because it operates both land and online
casinos. Traditionally, land gambling companies have shunned the internet
gambling industry and instead focus sneering at the internet gambling sites and
watching the death of their businesses. Rank though, has embraced the unique
benefits of each industry and still operates land gambling and bingo operations
in addition to the internet sites. To this end, the company has maintained
strong and viable businesses that compliment each other.
Some of the surprising news at the beginning of this New Year is the fact that
Rank saw the value in both sides of its business rise recently. Land casinos
have bemoaned the internet gambling industry with claims that it has squashed
the profitability of land gambling companies. But Rank’s success in both areas
proves that harmony is possible, and so is growth. Rank’s announcement that the
company showed strong growth at the end of 2009 has a lot of online casino
gambling companies also hoping that this is a lasting trend that will carry over
into the New Year.
The land and online casinos were heartened by news of Rank’s great performance,
because it lends hope that the slump created by the global recession has ebbed
and will now lead the way to more exponential growth, as was predicted by
analysts several years ago. |