As of April 1, Stefan Bruns will head up the sports betting and online gaming business segment as a new member of the Gauselmann Group Management Board. The tasks of the newly created Management Board position include strengthening the land-based and online sports betting offering, strategic expansion of virtual slot gaming and advancing the internationalisation of these two areas of […]

The most important sales event of adp Gauselmann took place on Friday, 3 September and Saturday, 4 September amid strict compliance with COVID rules whereby all of the 1,300 guests in attendance at the MERKUR SPIEL-ARENA had either been vaccinated against, recovered from or tested for the virus. adp Gauselmann presented a top-class mix of products, politics and partying over […]

Following the Europe-wide tender procedure for the sale of the corresponding company shares, Gauselmann Spielbanken Beteiligungs GmbH has been awarded the contract for the acquisition of WestSpiel Group. On July 20, 2021, Gauselmann Spielbanken GmbH and NRW.BANK signed the company purchase agreement for the acquisition and sale of WestSpiel Group. The shares in WestSpiel Group have so far been held […]

Paul Gauselmann, founder and CEO of the Gauselmann Group, has taken the unprecedented step of writing a personal letter to UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson conveying his ‘disappointment and regret’ at the Government’s re-opening timetable which will result in Adult Gaming Centres being the only high street businesses not permitted to open in April. The letter, copies of which were […]

Gauselmann UK, one of the leading low-stake gambling investors on Britain’s high street, has urged government to work with the industry and agree an action plan prior to publication of the government’s exit strategy which is expected later this month. Sascha Blodau, General Manager, Gauselmann (UK), underlined the importance of using the current period to iron out any issues or […]

Gauselmann UK is setting new standards of player protection with the launch of 360 – a programme which cements the company’s continuous commitment to social responsibility. 360 has been developed following close consultation with the Global Gambling Guidance Group (G4) whose accreditation programme helps organisations to establish a responsible gambling culture and implement initiatives that minimise the harms caused by […]

Cashpoint, a subsidiary of the internationally active Gauselmann Group, is the first company to have been granted a licence to host both online and land-based sports betting in the whole of Germany. It received the licence on 9th October 2020 from the competent Regional Council of Darmstadt. “We are delighted to be the first company to be able to offer […]

Gauselmann UK opened its ‘Constituency Campaign’ when members of the senior team hosted Mark Pawsey, the Conservative MP for Rugby, at the Warwickshire town’s Merkur Cashino Adult Gaming Centre on Friday July 24th. Mr Pawsey, who was hosted by Praesepe Chief Operating Officer Mark Schertle, Gauselmann UK’s newly appointed Director of Public and Political Relations Tony Boulton, and Head of […]

More than 700 MERKUR arcades in Germany and Europe are currently all closed, as too are all ten German casino venues of the Gauselmann Group and additionally the company’s many hundreds of sports betting shops in Germany and abroad. Nevertheless, the East-Westphalian family-owned company is looking to the time after the crisis with courage and confidence. “For the Gauselmann Group, […]

Gauselmann owned brands Praesepe and Blueprint have joined forces with UK trade association bacta to donate £12,000 in order to fund 100 Amazon Fire tablets and care packages to industry charity Rays of Sunshine (ROS). The tablets, described as a ‘godsend’ by ROS chief executive Laura Barnett, will be distributed to children who, due to restrictions introduced to help stem […]