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William Hill: The Man and the Business
William Hill: The Man and the Business

William Hill: The Man and the Business

SPORTS & RECREATION

352 Pages, 5 x 7.75

Formats: Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $16.95 (US $16.95) (CA $19.95)

Publication Date: August 2015

ISBN 9781910498019

Rights: US & CA

Pitch Publishing (Aug 2015)
Racing Post Books

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Overview

This is the story of how a working class boy born into a family of 13 children in pre-World War I Birmingham grew up to revolutionize the world of betting and bookmaking. William Hill beat the odds by starting out as a teenage one-man band, making the rounds of Birmingham's factories, pubs, and clubs on his secondhand motorbike taking penny, tuppence, and tanner bets. He went on to launch a fixed odds soccer betting business which took a total of £6 18/6d in its first week, but grew to a multi-million pound turnover before being almost taxed into extinction. However, today, William Hill, whose first London office was opened in 1934, and staffed by just William and one clerk, is a truly global bookmaker, with offices in nine countries; operating across 19 time zones, it is a FTSE 100 company, has over 2,500 betting shops and employs nearly 20,000 people.

Author Biography

Mihir Bose is an award-winning journalist for the London Evening Standard, as well as an author and broadcaster. Graham Sharpe is Media Director of William Hill and has written a number of books.