William Hill The Man & The Business
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781910498019 |
Publisher: | Pitch Publishing |
Imprint: | Racing Post Books |
Pub date: | 24 Apr 2015 |
DEWEY: | 795.092 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | viii, 376 , 16 unnumbered of plates |
Weight: | 394g |
Height: | 200mm |
Width: | 131mm |
Spine width: | 34mm |