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Mecca Bingo owner Rank sets sights on May reopening after lockdown hit 22/04/2021, 8:51 am Mecca Bingo and Grosvenor casinos owner Rank Group has said it is focusing on the reopening of its venues next month after suffering plummeting sales during the lockdown (Andrew Milligan/PA) Mecca Bingo and casino owner Rank Group has said it is focusing on the reopening of its venues next month after suffering plummeting sales during lockdown. The gambling group reported a 76% plunge in like-for-like ne...

Continued venue closures push revenue down 72% at Rank in Q3 22nd April 2021 | By Robert Fletcher Rank Group, operator of the Grosvenor Casinos and Mecca Bingo brands, has reported a 72% year-on-year fall in net gaming revenue in its third quarter, primarily due to the impact of the ongoing closure of its land-based facilities due to novel coronavirus (Covid-19). Like-for-like revenue in the three months to 31 March was down 76% from Q3 of 2020, with venue revenue plummeting 98% and digital rev...

Rank prioritises safe venue return as lockdown drains group performance    Share April 22, 2021 Rank Group Plc has revealed that trading under lockdown conditions for its most recent quarterly reporting period has resulted in a 72% fall in group like-for-like revenues. This morning, the LSE gambling group published a Q3 2020/2021 trading and corporate liquidity update for the period ending 31 March, which stated that its Grosvenor and Mecca venue net revenues performance had fallen by 98%...

April 22, 2021 In the United Kingdom and prominent land-based and online gaming operator Rank Group has released its financial results for the first three months of the year showing a drop of 72% year-on-year in like-for-like aggregated net gaming revenues. The Maidenhead-headquartered firm behind the Grosvenor Casinos and Mecca Bingo chains used an official press release to simultaneously detail a decline of 98% year-on-year in analogous land-based receipts as it suffered through the coronavir...

The Mecca Bingo Club in Fishergate, which will not be reopening after the lockdown and has closed permanently MECCA has confirmed that its bingo club in York will not be reopening after the lockdown. Operations director John Dyson said today he was very sad to confirm that the club in Fishergate would be closing permanently. He said: "Mecca York has been a part of the local community for 18 years and we want to say a huge thank you to every single one of our incredible customers for their...

Steve Davis, founder of Grantside, which has joined forces with North Star to buy the Mecca Bingo building in Fishergate, York. DEVELOPERS have teamed up to buy the Mecca Bingo building in York just a month after acquiring a city nightclub venue. North Star and Grantside, two of York’s leading property companies, have bought the site in Fishergate, which is in a prominent location on the edge of the city centre. They have completed the deal for an undisclosed sum following their joint a...

comments PM expected to announce wave of pilot events in April and May where proof of a jab will be required for entry  They include the FA Cup Final and semi-finals at Wembley, and the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield Events also planned in Liverpool, including at a club that can hold 3,000 people, and a  comedy gig But they will only be used to examine other measures like tests before entering, and ventilation systems  Ministers have yet to decide if pubs will have to force drinkers...

John O’Reilly has spent 30 years making a living out of forestry but doesn’t just see timber as a commodity. He has always been a big nature lover. “That would have been my primary driver on day one,” he says of his career choice. “I’d have been a mouth open, David Attenborough watcher on telly all the time, always was.” Having spent most of his life working for leading player Green Belt Forestry, he has now taken an entrepreneurial turn, leading and investing in NewGen, a sustain...

A body found in the River Thames last week has been confirmed as a man who has been missing since January.

A body found in the River Thames last week has been confirmed as a man who has been missing since January.