| William Hill: The Man and the Business Contributor(s): Bose, Mihir (Author), Sharpe, Graham (Author) |
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ISBN: 1910498017 ISBN-13: 9781910498019 Publisher: Racing Post Books OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Games & Activities | Gambling - General (see Also Self-help - Compulsive Behavior) - Sports & Recreation | Horse Racing - Biography & Autobiography | Sports |
| Dewey: 795.092 |
| Physical Information: 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the story of how a working class boy born into a family of 13 children in pre-World War I Birmingham grew up to revolutionize the world of betting and bookmaking. William Hill beat the odds by starting out as a teenage one-man band, making the rounds of Birmingham s factories, pubs, and clubs on his secondhand motorbike taking penny, tuppence, and tanner bets. He went on to launch a fixed odds soccer betting business which took a total of 6 18/6d in its first week, but grew to a multi-million pound turnover before being almost taxed into extinction. However, today, William Hill, whose first London office was opened in 1934, and staffed by just William and one clerk, is a truly global bookmaker, with offices in nine countries; operating across 19 time zones, it is a FTSE 100 company, has over 2,500 betting shops and employs nearly 20,000 people." |