Sportech PLC is a United Kingdom-based gaming company. It comprises two segments: Football Gaming and e-Gaming. The Football Gaming division includes the traditional football pools products run under the Littlewoods and Zetters brand names and associated games, such as Spot the Ball, Premier 10 and Lotto. The e-Gaming division includes the online activities of Littlewoods Poker, Littlewoods Casino, Littlewoods Bingo and Game On. On June 5, 2006, the Company’s Sports Betting Internet and telephone businesses were sold to 32 Red plc. During the year ended December 31, 2006, Sportech launched LittlewoodsBingo.com, an online gaming business. In 2006, the Company terminated its contract to provide betting services to ITV. In August 2007, the Company acquired the Vernons football pools business of Ladbrokes plc.

Football Pools Firm Sees Benefit From World Cup Games
BIRMINGHAM, U.K. (August 26, 2010) - Football pools firm Sportech today said betting games launched during the World Cup attracted 12,000 new online players as it stepped up the turnaround of the rebranded Littlewoods and Vernons business......Subscribers

Pools Operator Sportech Hopes to Halt Player Decline in 2011
LIVERPOOL, U.K. (March 25, 2010) - Football pools operator Sportech says 2011 could see it finally halt a 16-year decline in customers....................Subscribers

Pools Operator Gains Funds For Acquisition And Expansion; Re-launches Football Pools In Tabloids
LIVERPOOL, United Kingdom (January 7, 2010) -- Sportech, the Walton- based gaming group and football pools company, has secured a new media deal with Trinity Mirror Group newspapers, parent of the Liverpool ECHO, to reintroduce its pools game, trading as the New Football Pools...................Subscribers

Football-Pools Operator Sportech Sees FY Growth Rates Below Previous Estimates
LONDON, U.K. (November 19, 2009) - British football-pools operator Sportech Plc (ROD.L) said on Thursday it expected full-year growth rates to be below earlier estimates due to tough trading conditions faced by the gambling industry, sending its shares down almost..................Subscribers

Profits Up At Football Pools Firm Sportech
LIVERPOOL, U.K. (August 8, 2009) -- Football pools and gaming firm Sportech has announced a slight increase in its pre-tax profits to £5.1m in the first half of 2009.....................Subscribers

Pools Rebranding A Winner Says Sportech
LIVERPOOL, UK (May 14, 2009) -- Gaming company Sportech is reported to have told shareholders that its rebranding of the football pools has attracted more customers..........................Subscribers

Company Plans to Take New Football Pools to India
LONDON, UK (March 24, 2009) -- The operator of the New Football Pools said it was "actively pursuing international expansion plans, particularly in Asia and eastern Europe", with talks with Indian partners understood to be most advanced.............Subscribers

Sportech Pools Turnaround
UNITED KINGDOM (March 24, 2009) -- Football pools firm Sportech said it was turning around 15 years of declining interest in the competition as it unveiled a 39 per cent rise in annual profits..................Subscribers

Sportech PLC - Trading Statement -- "Major Improvement" for Pools Operator
LIVERPOOL, UK (January 27 2009) – Sportech PLC today issues a trading update for the year ended 31 December 2008..................Subscribers

Sportech Reports Rise in Football Pools Players
LIVERPOOL, UK (November 6, 2008) -- Liverpool based football pools operator Sportech is today reporting the first net growth in customer numbers since the launch of the National Lottery in 1994................Subscribers

Sportech Signs Distribution Deal With The Daily Mail
UNITED KINGDOM (August 18, 2008) -- Sportech, the football gaming business, has picked up an online distribution deal with The Daily Mail, in time for the launch of the new Premier League football season. The deal follows the..........Subscribers

Pools Profits Are Up, Sportech Reports Further Progress on New Games and Partnerships
LIVERPOOL, UK (August 5, 2008) -- Football pools group Sportech reported further progress on new games and partnerships with its interim figures for the six months to June 30...................Subscribers

Football Pools Enters a New Era; Prepares to Take on National Lottery
LONDON, UK (July 24, 2008) – The UK’s three main pools operators - Littlewoods, Vernons and Zetters - are now owned by one company, and from today, those names will be consigned to the history books and relaunched under a fresh identity.............Subscribers

Pools Firm to Join Battle for UK Tote
LIVERPOOL, UK (July 18, 2008) -- Sportech is set to make a bid for the UK Tote....................Subscribers

Sportech Signs Strategic Marketing Partnership With Online Gaming Entertainment Company
LONDON, UK (June 24, 2008) -- Sportech Plc said Tuesday that it has entered into a distribution and marketing partnership contract with online gaming entertainment company.................Subscribers

Sportech Says Pools Firm on Track
UNITED KINGDOM (May 20 2008) -- The Pools are still going strong despite tougher economic times, said the main players in the business yesterday.
Sportech, who own the Littlewoods, Vernons and Zetters brands, said 2008 trading had "started well"................Subscribers