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Sporting Index is a British-based company specialising in sports spread betting. It claims an estimated UK market share of over 70%. Sporting Index provides internet and telephone spread betting under the Sporting Index and Bethilo trademarks as well as wholesale services to a growing number of international betting and gaming operators under the Sporting Solutions brand. ==History== Sporting Index was founded in April 1992 with 5 members of staff and a handful of clients. In July 2001 Sporting Index launched the first fully interactive internet-based sports spread betting website.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Cool deal for Sporting Index )〕 Since 2004 Sporting Index has also hosted casino and sports related virtual games based on the concept of spread betting. During the 1999 Cricket World Cup Sporting Index's traders underestimated the total number of wides in the tournament which ended up costing the company £500,000 after the public were advised on the bet in betting newspaper Racing Post. In 2002 UK private equity firm Duke Street Capital backed a management buyout of Sporting Index, led by then CEO Richard Glynn, for £52.7 million. A secondary buyout saw HgCapital acquire the company from Duke Street Capital for a total cash consideration of £75.8 million in October 2005. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sporting Index」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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