The Rank Group has teamed up with Cloudfm to support its ESG goals and reduce carbon emissions across the business. The three-year deal will see Cloudfm support the Group’s 51 Grosvenor Casinos and 56 Mecca Bingo venues in the UK. Cloudfm will provide a full range of planned and reactive facilities management services and deploy its Mindsett PRISM energy management […]

Design Works Gaming (DWG) continues to build upon its success in the UK online casino market, adding Rank Interactive as its latest operator partner. Since landing its inaugural UK operator in 2020, DWG titles have quickly gained the attention of some of the biggest names in the industry with games. This latest deal will initially see DWG classics go live […]

Rank Group has partnered with GamCare for the extensive rollout of safer gambling and social responsibility training for over 1,400 colleagues. The programme will see GamCare deliver 150 days of training to Rank colleagues, kicking off later this month and running through until November. The new partnership builds on Rank’s longstanding work with GamCare which has seen colleagues working in […]

Rank Group have developed an innovative real-time safer gambling monitoring desk as part of the Group’s continued roll-out of safer gambling measures. The Grosvenor casino and Mecca bingo owner has invested significantly in the firm’s Customer support hub in order to identify, more swiftly, customer online behaviour that may require interventions, building on real-time player monitoring that has been underway […]

Rank has announces it has reached an agreement to sell its Blankenberge casino and associated digital licence to Kindred Group.  The disposal is subject to regulatory approvals by the Belgian Gaming Commission and the Blankenberge City Council and constitutes a Class 2 transaction for the purposes of the Listing Rules. Having closed its Middlekerke operations in 2017, Blankenberge has been […]

Playtech has announced a five-year extension with one of its key partners, The Rank Group, to exclusively provide its Bingo platform in addition to games content. The extended agreement follows a similar extension to Rank’s Casino services agreement with Playtech and a new agreement to launch Playtech’s Poker platform, bringing a number of Rank’s key product verticals to Playtech, supporting […]

The Managing Director of Grosvenor Casinos and Mecca Bingo has spoken out ahead of stricter restrictions set to be enforced in Greater Manchester and South Yorkshire, which will mean the temporary closure of casinos venues. Jonathon Swaine, Managing Director of Rank Group, outlines the hard-hitting economic and social impact of government measures on the betting and gaming industry which it […]

The Rank Group has asked the government to urgently extend the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme for businesses, like theirs, significantly impacted by the latest government restrictions. The Grosvenor Casinos operator has described the government’s decision to impose a 10pm blanket curfew on their venues as a “crippling blow” to the casino sector. Rank had encouraged government to work with the […]

The Rank Group has warned of thousands of jobs being put at risk in its Grosvenor Casinos business if the Government proceeds with nationwide 10pm curfews across the UK. Rank, which operates Grosvenor Casinos, the biggest operator in the UK employing over 4,500 people, is calling on the Government to support the sector, protecting jobs and tax receipts, by introducing […]

Rank has announced that, in line with recently updated Government guidance, the Group will commence the reopening of its Mecca bingo clubs from 4th July 2020. The company’s statement said: “Our spacious Mecca venues will have extensive social distancing measures and signage; colleague-controlled entry and exit; reconfigured service points to account for social distancing and frequent and extensive cleaning of […]