Gvc Share Discussion Threads

[trentendboy] 16/10/2016 18:19

Thanks. Will try it

[melody9999] 16/10/2016 11:48

TEB - sorry O/T re GVC but of use to all Firefox browsers. Install ublock origin add-on to firefox and kill the ADVFN pop-ups and downloads on these BBs without having to open a 'private window' session.

I am sure page loading is faster too.

[gaaston] 15/10/2016 18:16

I had an extremely large holding but have topped it out by a third, now having plenty of cash in hand to buy back in should the global markets take a tumble over the winter. Even GVC is likely to suffer somewhat during such a scenario. Also into precious metals both physical (silver vat-free in vault) and a spread of gold n' commodity stocks. So many wild situations abound right now. Apols for O/T

[trentendboy] 15/10/2016 13:15

Please remember that GVC were "supposed" to do a JOINT bid for BPTY.

Then GVC decided to go it alone.

They are friends with AMAYA and clearly know them well enough to do a joint bid together.

There is no doubt conversations have taken place informally

[melody9999] 15/10/2016 09:36

All fascinating stuff and the rumour mill is clearly in full flow. Meanwhile I will just trust Kenny and the team to be as shrewd in their positioning of the company as they have been thus far.

Hold and watch for me.

[nurdin] 14/10/2016 20:33

Sounds plausible.

[brownie69] 14/10/2016 19:33

GVC are not missing poker. they have Party which they have returned to growth. With Amaya seemingly in disarray I'm quite happy if we do not have to buy Amaya and all the issues that brings. Debt, Kentucky, dodgy ex CEO etc.

My guess is that Kenny is talking to Intertain. Very cheap, wants to list in UK and big synergies with Foxy. More bite sized and instantly accretive.

[trentendboy] 14/10/2016 15:13

Amaya is the key.

GVC have a fantastic grey and white casino and sports offer.

All they are missing is poker.

Amaya have teh world leading poker sites but have weak casino and sports.

It is the natural match.

Bad actor issues just measns that they need to be careful.

With Partypoker and pokerstars they would have the US poker market on a plate.

[velod] 14/10/2016 14:58

Early days yet Festario on all this rumour and suposition. . If you're referring to my post an hour or so ago, today (that I can't see) it confirms by coincidence of comments made in February that GVC being involved in Hills is quite credible in the current circumstances and thus concerns me insomuch as someone not keen on adding an outright £2.5 billion debt with maybe more unspoken debt potentially hidden 'behind cupboards' being added to GVC accounts, that's all.

. . Cherry picking from a bigger pie is a a whole different thing, if that's what some think, but as nothing is clear yet, it will all have to remain for me, just a concern.

. Hope that explanation goes some way to clearing any confusion you have over my posts.

[festario] 14/10/2016 14:26

That's funny VeloD, this morning GVC was dodgy, and going down the toilet, make your mind up will you?

[velod] 14/10/2016 13:55

Glad you can see it srpactive because I can't on my phone. Returned to the desktop and there it is. Use phone 99% for this forum so wondering what else has not been visible to me.

[srpactive] 14/10/2016 13:23

velod

What a fantastic post from you, yes I do feel and have said here for a while
gvc will buy wmh sell off a lot and get on the ftse 100.

Then boom 1000p.

dyor

regards

active

[srpactive] 14/10/2016 09:48

Yes it is, or they want a merger with gvc and become a major shareholder
in the wonderful GVC.

dyor

regards

active

[loganair] 14/10/2016 09:39

Parvus, which owns a 14% stake in the company, said the deal had "limited strategic logic and would destroy shareholder value". It added that William Hill should consider a sale of the company.

Liberum said "What is clear is that Parvus have hung up the 'For Sale' sign at Hills and the company remains 'in play'."

[loganair] 14/10/2016 09:36

Just to add a little more meat to the bones and it seems to me at the moment that GVC´s priority is not another major take over:



GVC has announced two deals in as many weeks that will see the BwinParty casino offerings augmented by new games partnerships which the company hopes will go some way to rectifying what it identified as a shortfall of content on the acquired brand sites.

At the time of the company’s half-year results in September, GVC said that product improvements, particularly with its newly-acquired brands, was a key priority for the rest of this year and into 2017.

Subsequently, the company has announced two further deals; first with Realistic Games that will see nearly 40 new games added to the GVC casino portfolio and second an agreement with Scientific Games that will add 20 of the latter’s suite of WMS studio games, including Rainbow Riches, to the Bwin, PartyPoker and PartyCasino offerings in Belgium and Spain.

This adds to its previously announced new partnerships with the likes of Microgaming, Yggdrasil and Play’N Go which has already hugely expanded the company’s games offering across all its brand properties including its original CasinoClub offering.

Jay Dossetter, head of corporate communications at GVC, said the company had moved to address what it viewed as “clear gaps” in the acquired brand offerings along with technical issues that meant there was a shortfall in the player experience.

“The most obvious was that they were missing content from major suppliers, but also there were improvements to be made around the general user experience and issues like game loading times, which were far too long,” he told TotallyGaming.com.

As well as adding over 300 games – and with more to come – he added that the mobile offering had also been overhauled and that loading times had been slashed from over 40 seconds at worst to three seconds.

Bearing in mind widespread industry complaints regarding the time it takes to integrate new content onto a site, the rapidity with which GVC has added its new content from multiple suppliers is somewhat surprising. But Dossetter points out that this is down to the company owning its own technology.

In the interim results presentation to analysts, chief executive Kenny Alexander talked about the company “controlling its own destiny” when it came to its own technology stack which, he said, gave the company the flexibility to add to its product portfolio.

“The fact that we own our own technology platform gives us a huge advantage in this area,” said Dossetter. “Whilst there were improvements to be made on the user-side, the underlying BwinParty tech platform has proven to be hugely robust and flexible.”

It has meant that the company has been able to work on multiple integrations, and to launch in multiple markets, while concurrently bringing new providers on stream. “To aid this process we’ve adapted the way we work, so that we now integrate our systems to suppliers, rather than the other way round, as was the case previously,” he added.

Although GVC is keen to add more of what it views as best-in-class content, Dossetter said the company was well aware of the dangers of believing casino offerings was “just a numbers game”. In order to avoid some of the pitfalls of ‘me-too-ism217;, the company is working on bringing through its own in-house content. “In the past couple of weeks we have launched Oktoberfest, which is a really nice five-reel slot and has actually been our best performing game launched this year – which, given the amount of third-party content we’ve added, is a huge complement to our development team,” he said.

Totally Gaming says: GVC has made much of the speed with which it has already begun to turn around the trading performance at its acquired BwinParty brands, and the way it has moved to rectify issues at its casino operations provides an insight into how it has achieved it.

[srpactive] 14/10/2016 08:17

The chap from William Hill probably wants the board to
buy gvc, I would have thought.

dyor

regards

active

[king kong dong] 14/10/2016 07:57

Busy busy....

hxxp://www.casinonewsdaily.com/2016/10/11/gvc-adds-wms-studio-content-spanish-belgian-sites/

hxxp://www.casinonewsdaily.com/2016/10/07/gvc-holdings-expands-offering-realistic-games-casino-content/

[mylands] 14/10/2016 07:42

I repeat what I said a couple of days ago. The market is very toppy and IMO is heading one way only and that is down. This is further confirmed to me by the latest bearish statement by Donald Tusk about a hard Brexit or no Brexit. Investors are taking profits following the recent stellar rise, no more, no less.

No, I don't think our CEO is a god, just a very canny Scottish accountant who has taken a £30 million company when he joined, to one worth over £2 billion, confounding every doubting Thomas, and believe me there have been many, on the way.

[velod] 13/10/2016 23:47

Is this why there's been sustained pressure on the share price since admittance to the FTSE250?

. . - Insiders aware of a new deal, the possibly of GVC about to be wrecked by an additional £2.5 billion debt hung around it's neck? So almost a month after official admittance and with plenty of talk of funds and trackers being FORCED to buy FTSE250 Co's by mandate, who couldn't buy before admittance so putting paid to "it's already in the price" this is the result - 731p??? On Sept 20th admittance day it was 769p That was too much was it? Didn't hear anyone voicing concerns that after admittance it should be no more than only be 724p/730p or so. .

With technicals indicating this retrace is not over but dangerously - possibly about to get worse the question has to be asked - Who's been moving their funds out, and why? No doubt the chorus will be they're just profit taking for other projects. What one with a greater potential for immediate growth than GVC right now?

Something smells about this "innocent" retrace.

. . . If I hear one more reference to "Sir Kenny" and his promotion to god-like status I swear I'll .... I'll, I'll er., er,. well I'll just swear so I will. He's not a god. He's not a genius. He's just a very talented CEO - that's all. . . Treating him like he can do no wrong and go with whatever takes his whim is a dangerous mindset that excuses accountability.

I just think something's wrong. Can't quite put my finger on it . . . .

[trentendboy] 13/10/2016 22:25

Can't help thinking the Anaya deal is the deal