Sportingbet Garners Top Honors

Sportingbet PLC, owner one of the leading online sportsbooks and casinos, as well as popular online poker room, Paradise Poker, was named “Best in Class” for the second year in a row by eGaming Review magazine.

As part of the magazine’s “Power 50” feature, Sportingbet and other online gaming sites were assessed using the following four factors:

1. Scale – the financial strength of the firm.
2. Reach – geographic span, with more weight given to larger countries
3. Influence – sector dominance and innovation; poker rooms and sportsbooks are weighted stronger than casino-only companies
4. Diversity – the number of different products offered

From the “Power 50” report:

“Sportingbet is the only top-five firm to tick all the boxes under the criteria we first laid out 12 months ago. It has a fully developed and well-diversified product range, and only Cassava can rival Sportingbet in terms of global reach. Its scale is only beaten by the gigantic valuation attached to PartyGaming, and its influence on every branch of the egaming industry remains huge. There is no region or sector where Sportingbet is not among the big players online and its innovative ground-breaking attitude gives it a
position of importance in the egaming world not even PartyGaming can match in July 2005.”

The top five companies of the survey, in order, are Sportingbet, PartyGaming, Cassava Enterprises, William Hill, and BetandWin.