{"id":6566,"date":"2018-04-21T13:17:13","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T17:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=2ac0abad9145fcaeda21ce6ddfbb4cbc"},"modified":"2018-04-21T13:17:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T17:17:13","slug":"the-stars-group-inc-acquires-sky-betting-and-gaming-in-deal-worth-us4-7b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/21\/the-stars-group-inc-acquires-sky-betting-and-gaming-in-deal-worth-us4-7b\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stars Group Inc. acquires Sky Betting and Gaming in deal worth US$4.7B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; Online gambling operator The Stars Group Inc. announced Saturday that it acquired Sky Betting &amp; Gaming in a cash and stock transaction valued at US$4.7 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The Stars Group says the acquisition will make them the largest publicly listed online gaming company.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition was made off CVC Capital Partners and Sky plc.<\/p>\n<p>The company says it will benefit from an increased presence in regulated markets and better revenue diversification after the transaction.<\/p>\n<p>The Stars Group says it already boasts the largest betting player base in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>The company also recently acquired gaming companies CrownBet and William Hill Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Companies in this article: (TSX:TSGI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &mdash; Online gambling operator The Stars Group Inc. announced Saturday that it acquired Sky Betting &amp; Gaming in a cash and stock transaction valued at US$4.7 billion. The Stars Group says the acquisition will make them the largest publicly listed online gaming company. The acquisition was made off CVC Capital Partners and Sky plc. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6568,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6566\/revisions\/6568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}