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Operator of the Year Announced at the 2009 EGR Awards
The business was crowned ‘EGR Operator of the Year’, beating of lively opposition from rivals including Bet365, PartyGaming, 888, BetClick, and Betfair.
Hosted by comedian Mark Watson, the awards are the Oscars of the online betting business and more than 900 movers and shakers from the industry attended London’s Billingsgate, to see the trophys awarded in 19 different categories.
Bwin won praise from the judges for its ‘consistency, leadership, scale, the strength of the brand, for promoting responsible gaming, and for showing continued, consisted leadership.’
Bwin country manager Nic Wenn, who collected the award, said: “It's great that Bwin has won this award after ten years. I think Bwin have carried on doing what Bwin have been doing, leading the way in opening new territories in Europe and leading the technological advance in our industry.”
The winners in other categories were as follows.
Gamesys won Innovation of the Year, PKR won Online Marketing Campaign of the Year, Virgin Games was judged Affiliate Programme of the Year and Betclick won Offline Marketing Campaign of the Year (for which bingo operator Cashcade were highly commended).
Probability was named Mobile Operator of the Year (with a special commendation given to Betfair), Betsson was Socially Responsible Operator of the Year and SBO Bet was Asian Operator of the Year.
Betboo was named Latin American Operator of the Year while Foxy Bingo picked up the Bingo Operator of the Year award. In sports betting Unibet was named European Sports Betting Operator of the Year while Betfair picked up the UK Sports Betting Operator of the Year award.
888 was named Casino Operator of the Year and Party Gaming picked up Poker Operator of the Year.
Bet on Markets won the Financial Betting Operator of the Year contest while Gaming Media Group picked up Rising Star of the Year for companies less than three years old with annual gaming revenues under £10 million.
In the live gaming category, Unibet was named European Live Gaming Operator of the Year and VCBetAsia was Asian Live Gaming Operator of the Year.
