Career Information

Gala Coral Group

Gala Coral employs 17,000 people in the UK.
Gala Coral is the leading fundraiser in the Bingo industry-wide campaign which raised £1 million for Macmillan Cancer Relief over three years.
Gala Coral Group is a founder member of the Nottinghamshire Cares scheme, an East Midlands employee volunteering programme.
In 2002 Gala Bingo was awarded the Investors in People Award for the third consecutive year.
In 2002 Gala Group was presented with an unprecedented four British Safety Council Swords of Honour.
Gala Coral Group is a founder member of the newly proposed Sector Skills Council for the catering.

Bingo

Gala Bingo is the country's largest bingo operator and has been placed as the 17th best company to work for in the UK in an annual survey carried out by The Sunday Times.
Bingo is the most popular group leisure activity in the UK and the second most popular individual leisure activity. It is the most popular leisure activity for women between 20 and 25 years old (source: Mintel).
The bingo industry employs some 20,000 people in the UK.
Bingo is controlled by strict legislation, enforced by the Gaming Board. The Gaming Board reports to Central Government, and is regulated by the Gaming Act of 1968. The Government department responsible for gaming is the DCMS (Department of Culture, Media and Sport).
There are 1.94 million admissions per week (277,000 admissions per day) or around 90 million admissions per year to bingo clubs in Great Britain (source: Bingo Association/Gaming Board).
In Great Britain, the bingo industry is estimated to be worth nearly £2 billion.
A bingo player wins a prize every three minutes during trading hours. After a recent gaming audit was undertaken this figure was found to be every two minutes at Gala Clubs.
Bingo is the only gambling game permitted by the armed forces.
The total money staked on bingo now exceeds £1 billion or £1,118 million - excluding Gaming machines (source: Gaming Board)

Gambling in a casino is the only gambling activity - alongside bingo - that is increasing in popularity - the national lottery, scratch cards, amusement arcades, betting and football pools are all falling back.
The Gala Riverboat Casino, Glasgow was a finalist in the National Customer Service Awards 2004 in the Frontline Customer Service Team of the Year category.
Gala Casinos has 1.3 million members, with more joining every day.
Around 2,000 people per week visit a Gala Casino.
Each year Gala Casinos runs a Croupier of the Year competition. The winner was Brian Kelly, a croupier from Aberdeen.
Roulette is the most popular game by far, accounting for 63% of gaming income. Punto Banco/Baccarat is next with 19.1% and Black Jack 11.1%.
Gala Casinos launched the UK's first linked Wide Area Network Poker game in January 2003. Jackpot Stud Poker links all of Gala's Casinos together with an accumulated jackpot. Over £1 million has been paid out since the game was launched.

Eurobet was founded in 1994, and was the first company to accept bets via the Internet in 1996.
Eurobet provides online sports betting to Europe in the following languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Chinese, Greek, Russian, Turkish, Bulgarian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Albanian and Czech.
9 different currencies are available: British Pound (£), Euros (€), American Dollar ($), Danish Krone (DKK), Norwegian Krone (NOK), Swedish Krona (SEK), Thai Baht (THB) and Czech Koruna (CZK).
Eurobet serves clients in over 130 countries.
Sports on offer include: Soccer, Tennis, Ice Hockey, Basketball, Skiing, Golf, American Football, Volleyball, Boxing, Horse Racing, Greyhounds, Baseball, Motorsports (F1, Motorcycling), Cricket, Rugby and several special events such as Election and TV events.

Joe Coral (born Joseph Kagarlitski) began his bookmaking business in 1926 and, although primarily concerned with operating betting pitches at racecourses, he opened his first credit office in the West End of London in 1943.
Coral is currently the fastest growing bookmaker in Britain, and rapid expansion has seen our betting shop estate increase from 860 to 1,280 shops over the last three years.
Coral owns two of the finest Greyhound Racing stadia in Britain, at Romford and Hove. Coral also operates betting shops at three of Britain's biggest racecourses – Cheltenham, Epsom, and Sandown – not to mention two betting shops at Gatwick Airport and Stansted Airport.
By May 2006, following the acquisition of VCBet's UK betting shops, the Coral betting shop estate numbered 1,340 retail outlets throughout Great Britain.
The Coral-Eclipse Stakes is our flagship sponsorship and is a Group 1 contest for the best racehorses in Europe staged in July at Sandown Park. This sponsorship celebrated its 30th birthday in July 2005 making it one of the longest running sponsorships in history. Coral's sponsorship of the Welsh National has lasted even longer and remains one of the most popular jump races in the calendar.