William Hill operates worldwide, employing approximately 16,601 people with main offices in the UK, Republic of Ireland and Gibraltar, offering betting by phone and Internet together with their 2300 UK-wide Licensed Betting Offices. They are the largest UK operator, representing around 25 per cent of the market throughout the UK and Ireland. Its telebetting call centres, which are located in Rotherham, South Yorkshire took 125,000 bets on the 2007, Grand National and according to the company its betting shops process more than one million betting slips on an average day.

In addition to its online sportsbook operations, the company offers online casino games, ‘skill games’, online bingo and online poker. Since the Gambling Act 2005,gaming machines have strengthened profits to counteract falling revenues in other areas.In August 2010, William Hill launched a training programme for its 10,000+ workforce to combat underage gambling in its retail outlets.

The company owns 2,300 betting shops

The company was founded by William Hill in 1934 at a time when gambling was illegal in Britain.It changed hands many times, being acquired by Sears Holdings in 1971, then by Grand Metropolitan in 1988, then by Brent Walker in 1989

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