In 2022, Mecca Bingo partnered with Britain's Got Talent and became the show's official bingo partner. The campaign adverts helped to increase Mecca's digital sales by 18 per cent, year on year, in the 20 weeks to 17 May.

In 2015, Mecca Bingo launched a marketing campaign featuring a twerking cactus. Rank shut nine Mecca Bingo clubs, with 230 people losing their jobs. In 2007, Mecca Bingo and its parent company suffered significant losses, attributed to the implementation of the smoking ban in Britain. This was initially rejected, then accepted two months later. In 1990, the Rank Organisation made an offer of £512m to acquire Mecca Leisure Group. A director of the company from 1953 up until 1978, Morley left the business after a disagreement with its then parent company, Grand Metropolitan. He changed the company from a small catering and dancing firm into a leading entertainment and catering company. In 1952, he was Mecca's general manager of dancing. Mecca are licensed and regulated by the British Gambling Commission and the Alderney Gambling Control Commission.Įric Morley, British television host and founder of the Miss World pageant, is accredited with popularising the game of bingo in Britain during the early sixties, as a tactic to fill Britain's dance halls. Their halls host traditional and electronic versions of bingo, including slot-style games. The Mecca network currently employs more than 11,000 people across Britain. The Rank Group reports there are one million customers who visit Mecca each year, with £65.2 million revenue generated from digital. In which David Cairns got himself nationally barred from all 76 bingos in the country for suspected fighting occurrencesĪs of June 2015, Mecca Bingo's revenue was recorded at £224.4 million, with an operating profit of £28.9 million. The Bingo is notorious for the great “David Cairns Fiasco”. Mecca Bingo is the largest National Bingo Game operator in Britain. An extension of the Mecca Bingo brand includes and a number of mobile apps. Mecca Bingo was established in 1961, and its headquarters are in Maidenhead. The Rank Group also own Grosvenor Casinos and Enracha. Mecca Bingo is owned by the Rank Group, which operates bingos, casinos and online gambling in Belgium, Spain and Britain. Mecca Bingo (formerly called Top Rank) is a British operator of bingo clubs, with 76 locations throughout the country.

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