The Rank Group Plc
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| Traded as | : |
| Industry | Gambling |
| Predecessor | Rank Organisation |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Headquarters | Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom |
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Number of locations
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152 (UK) 2 (Belgium) 10 (Spain) |
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Area served
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Key people
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Ian Burke (Chairman) Henry Birch (Chief Executive) |
| Products | Grosvenor Casinos, Mecca Bingo, enRacha, Top Rank España, Rank Interactive |
| Revenue | £708.5 million (2016) |
| £82.4 million (2016) | |
| £71.1 million (2016) | |
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Number of employees
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10,700 (2017) |
| Website | www |
The Rank Group is a British gambling company based in the United Kingdom. Rank was formerly involved in the cinema and motion picture industry until 2006, and continues to use the Gongman logo originally used by the Rank Organisation's film distribution subsidiary General Film Distributors. Its brands now include Grosvenor Casinos, the UK's largest casino operator, and Mecca Bingo.
Rank’s principal market and headquarters are in the United Kingdom where it operates Grosvenor Casinos (56 casinos), Mecca Bingo (96 bingo clubs) and Rank Interactive (online gaming and betting). It also operates additional Grosvenor Casinos clubs in Belgium (two casinos), and Top Rank España in Spain (10 bingo clubs).
Rank is listed on the and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
The company was formed to acquire the business interests of the Rank Organisation, which itself was formed out of the business interests of its founder, J. Arthur Rank. Until the start of the 21st century, the group still had a tremendous amount of leisure holdings; however, as the decade progressed it divested these interests, beginning with Pinewood Studios and the Odeon cinema chain. It also shed its engineering interests, such as its share in Rank Xerox, selling Rank Leisure Machine Services to Gamestec plus all its Butlins, Warner and Haven Holidays holiday and recreation facilities, which were all sold to Bourne Leisure.
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