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Arena Leisure - Attheraces model changed

May 2005

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  • Epic Code:
  • ARE
  • Price:
  • 44p
With the old Attheraces media rights contract disbanded during the year and a new one put in place from 11 June, whilst the gaming software development activities were also closed,  results for 2004 weren't particularly meaningful. A keynote was a 27% increase in race meetings to 315 and a 24% increase in sales to £36m from the six racecources. However, operating profit grew by only 4% to £7.3m (although it would have been up 20% on a like-for-like basis adjsuting for termination of the Attheraces media revenues and some changes to racing funding).Arena's second leg is Attheraces, the 47.5%-owned joint venture with BSkyB which has been set up to exploit the media rights to 28 racecources in the UK. It now generate ...

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