In 2022, a company listed on the London Stock Exchange announced: positioning itself as the world's largest online gaming and sports gambling software provider; after this proclamation, no company contested this claim, and many acknowledged it.

This company is from Israel, Playtech:

About Playtech:

Playtech was founded in 1999 in Tartu, Estonia by Israeli entrepreneur Teddy Sagi, with partners from the casino, software engineering, and multimedia industries. Playtech launched its first casino product in 2001 and has since grown into a leading and largest international digital gaming industry network and mobile application software designer, developer, and licensor, serving most blue-chip companies in the industry (UK's William Hill, Ladbrokes, Bet365, Italy's Snai and Sisal, etc.), as well as governments and regulatory authorities.

Teddy Sagi sold his shares in 2008 and 2011, and completely exited in 2018; the current chairman is former 888 holding chairman Brian Mattingley, and the current CEO is Mor Weizer.

Brian MattingleyMor Weizer

The renowned Playtech's business scope is as follows:

After more than 20 years of development, Playtech has essentially covered the entire gambling industry ecosystem, including sports events, online live dealers, poker, slot machines, bingo, virtual reality games, etc.; based on the industry ecosystem, it has established a complete front, middle, and back office, as well as its own big data service center. The main revenue comes from two major businesses: B2B and B2C.

In 2022, Playtech's publicly disclosed financial reports for just B2B and B2C show that B2B accounts for 39.1%; B2C accounts for 60.9%.

And now for the main event, as a leading company in the gambling industry, their annual revenues are:

B2B: €632 million

B2C: €983 million

Total annual revenue: €1.615 billion

To give readers an idea of these numbers, we compare them with the well-known company ByteDance.

ByteDance's total business data for 2023 is $1100, approximately €1016 billion. Playtech is about 1/10 the size of the entertainment conglomerate ByteDance.

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Attached are all the capital events of Playtech up to the end of 2022:

In March 2006, Playtech successfully listed on the AIM market, valued at approximately $950 million (about £550 million).

After the "Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act" was passed in 2006, the company's stock price fell more than 40% in one day. On October 22, 2008, Playtech announced that it would acquire private assets from Teddy Sagi for $250 million. Then, in March 2011, Playtech acquired PT Turnkey Services from Teddy Sagi for £125 million. In July 2013, Playtech acquired PokerStrategy.com from etruvian Holdings Ltd for $49.2 million, one of the world's largest poker communities with nearly 7 million members. In September 2014, Playtech announced the acquisition of Aristocrat Lotteries from Aristocrat Leisure Limited for €10.5 million.

In January 2015, many casino websites supported by Playtech announced their departure from the German market. In February 2015, Playtech announced the acquisition of the GameMaker Studio game development software manufacturer YoYo Games for £10.65 million ($16.4 million). It was revealed that in June 2015, Playtech would acquire the online forex broker Plus500 for $699 million. This planned transaction was terminated in November 2015.

In May 2016, Playtech acquired the Swedish online game developer Quickspin. The first payment of €24 million represented 100% of Quickspin's shares, on a cash-free debt basis, with the remaining €26 million to be paid based on Quickspin's EBITDA during 2017 and 2018. In July 2016, Playtech acquired competitor operator Best Gaming Technology (BGT) for €138 million, as the gambling group continued to respond to the wave of consolidation sweeping the entire industry. Playtech entered Romania in January 2017, opening a casino studio in Bucharest to provide live casino games for local online gambling operators. Playtech's licensing agreement with Marvel Comics expired on March 31, 2017, and the supplier announced a new partnership with Warner Bros in February 2017 to develop slots based on DC comic movies, such as Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Suicide Squad, and Justice League.

In November 2016, Playtech announced the acquisition of major broker CFH Group to strengthen its financial division's B2B products, later renaming it TradeTech Group.

In October 2017, Playtech announced that they had acquired the leading responsible gambling analytics company BetBuddy. BetBuddy's behavior recognition and modification software will be integrated with Playtech's current player management system, hoping it can more quickly identify and assist problem gamblers.

In January 2018, Playtech completed the integration of Featurespace's machine learning real-time fraud detection platform into its information management system. The strategic cooperation with the behavior analysis company aims to enable Playtech's licensees to identify and reduce fraud attacks.

In March 2018, Playtech reached an agreement with the Polish national lottery provider Totalizator Sportowy.

In April 2018, Playtech acquired 70.6% of the shares of the Italian gambling and gaming company Snaitech for €291 million. Including Snaitech's debt, the transaction's enterprise value was €846 million.

In September 2018, Playtech announced the sale of its 10% stake in Plus500 Ltd. for a total of £176 million.

In November 2018, founder Teddy Sagi sold his remaining shares in Playtech. Although Sagi had been steadily reducing his stake in the company, the final sale was conducted shortly after investor Jason Ader urged the company to sever remaining ties with Sagi, claiming that Sagi's continued involvement could hinder Playtech's ambitions in the US market.

In April 2020, Playtech appointed non-executive director Claire Milne as interim chairman, after chairman Alan Jackson expressed his intention to resign after the company's 2020 annual shareholder meeting.

On May 29, 2020, Playtech agreed to pay £3.5 million to responsible gambling charities, following the death of 25-year-old Chris Bruney, a customer of the company's TitanBet and Winner gambling websites, who had lost over £119,000 in the previous five days. During this period, managers of the website's VIP program had issued him multiple bonuses. The UK Gambling Commission planned to impose a £3.5 million fine on Playtech subsidiary PT Entertainment Services, but the company relinquished its UK license before the fine. After the controversy was reported in the media, Playtech agreed to pay £3.5 million, with chairman Claire Milne committing to personally apologize to Bruney's family.

In August 2020, Playtech began offering online casino games through Bet365's New Jersey licensed site, marking the company's first appearance in the US regulated online gambling market.

In August 2020, Playtech confirmed that it was exploring the potential sale of its trading technology division to TradeTech.

As part of the divestment of its casual and mobile gaming division, Playtech announced in January 2021 that it had sold YoYo Games to Opera Software for $10 million.

On October 18, 2021, Aristocrat Leisure announced a $3.7 billion acquisition of Playtech.

On January 25, 2022, it was reported that Playtech (OTC:PYTCF) was evaluating a potential spin-off plan if its shareholders voted against the sale to Australian competitor Aristocrat. The spin-off would result in the separate sale of Playtech's business-to-business division and Italian consumer division Snaitech.