Paddy Power Buys Stake In Georgia’s Biggest Online Gambling Community

Paddy power Betfair on Friday introduced it had purchased a controlling pale in Adjara bet, the largest online betting neighborhood in Georgia, because it moves to benefit a foothold in high-boom markets. In an accord admired at £101m, the UK-listed bookmaker will rob a fifty one per cent stake in Adjara bet, which holds 40% of the Georgian online betting and gaming bazaar and Online Betting 10% of the nascent Armenian market. Shares in Paddy power traded up as a great deal as three per cent on London’s FTSE exchange on Friday morning.

"This bolt-on acquisition is in response to our method of building podium positions in desirable online markets," said abate Jackson, Paddy power’s arch executive. "Adjara bet’s main company presence and robust management team has based it as the bright number one in the quickly-growing, adapted online Georgian market.