{"id":101615,"date":"2021-09-23T19:46:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T22:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/?p=101615"},"modified":"2021-09-24T08:18:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T11:18:55","slug":"playtech-sees-us-revenue-double-for-h1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/playtech-sees-us-revenue-double-for-h1","title":{"rendered":"Playtech sees US revenue double for H1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>US revenue rose 106 per cent year-on-year to $54.4m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>US.- The gaming group <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/playtech-meets-h1-expectations-thanks-to-online-b2b-growth\" target=\"_blank\">Playtech<\/a> has confirmed that its US business is now the group\u2019s biggest driver of growth. According to its H1 financial update <strong>for the six months ended 30 June 2021<\/strong>, US revenue grew <strong>106<\/strong> per cent year-on-year to <strong>$54.4m<\/strong>. Overall group revenue for the half was down by <strong>4 per cent <\/strong>from <strong>$559.1m<\/strong> to <strong>$536.5m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company saw a significant leap in H1 profits, which came in at <strong>$471.4m<\/strong> compared to a loss of <strong>$25.9m<\/strong> year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Playtech CEO <strong>Mor Weizer <\/strong>said: \u201cI am delighted by our strong strategic and operational progress to date in 2021, despite the ongoing challenges posed by the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;These results demonstrate the quality of our technology and products, the significant progress made against our strategic priorities, and wider momentum across Playtech\u2019s operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSignificant progress in the US saw Playtech launch for the first time in Michigan, the first step in our long-term multi-state partnership with Parx Casino, and regulatory approvals progressed in key strategic states.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong> <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/playtech-shareholders-reject-barinboim-bid-for-finalto\" target=\"_blank\">Playtech shareholders reject Barinboim bid for Finalto<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US revenue rose 106 per cent year-on-year to $54.4m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":101616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,6],"tags":[72,395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101625,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101615\/revisions\/101625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}