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With 215,000 square kilometres (83,000 sq mi), Guyana is the fourth-smallest country on mainland South America after Uruguay, Suriname and French Guiana. The main economic activities in Guyana are agriculture (production of rice and Demerara sugar ), bauxite mining, gold mining, timber, shrimp fishing and minerals.
The company was founded by Mark Blandford in 1997. [2] Sportingbet acquired Paradise Poker in October 2004. [3] On 7 September 2006 Sportingbet reported that its then chairman, Peter Dicks, was detained in New York City on a Louisiana warrant while traveling in the United States on business unrelated to online gambling. [4]
With Sportingbet, Blandford went on to be voted AIM Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002 [3] and later earned the company the honour of AIM Transaction of the Year in 2005. [4] Blandford left day-to-day operations at Sportingbet in 2006 and now works as a venture capital investor. [5]
Sportingbet was established in 1998 and was acquired by GVC in March 2013. It provides online and mobile sports betting, casinos, games and poker. In October 2012, Sportingbet announced that it had agreed to preliminary terms for a £530 million takeover bid from both GVC and William Hill.
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At its peak, Sportingbet was valued at just under £2 billion. Payne stepped down as its chief executive in October 2006 and was succeeded by Andrew McIver. Payne continued to be a non-executive director at Sportingbet, focusing on industry regulation and legal issues. [1] Since November 2006 Nigel Payne is an independent gaming consultant.
Sportsbet is an online gambling company owned by Flutter Entertainment, primarily targeting the Australian market.Founded in Darwin, Northern Territory, [2] Sportsbet is licensed as a corporate bookmaker in the Northern Territory under the Racing and Betting Act 1993 (NT).
The economy of Guyana is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, with a gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 19.9% in 2021. [9] In 2024, Guyana had a per capita gross domestic product ( purchasing power parity ) of Int$ 80,137 and an average GDP growth of 4.2% over the previous decade. [ 4 ]