UK High Street Gambling Industry Enters Winter Of Discontent

05 Dec, 2007
John Watson, GamblingCompliance Ltd.
The introduction of the 2005 Gambling Act in September should have signalled a time of renewed optimism for UK gambling operators. However, the material impact of the smoking ban and tax increases announced earlier this year, added to the cost of compliance with the Act, have caused this optimism to all but disappear.