Bet Direct Disposal Completed

8 Jun 2006 07:02

Sportech PLC08 June 2006 8 June 2006 Sportech PLC ("Sportech" or "the Group") Bet Direct - Disposal Completed Sportech confirms that following the announcement on 2 June 2006 regarding thedisposal of its business Bet Direct to 32Red plc for £12.5 million, allconditions have been met and the transaction has now completed. - ends - Enquiries: Sportech PLCIan Penrose, Chief Executive Officer 0151 288 3561 Investec Investment BankingJames Grace / Stefan Borson 020 7597 5970 Bell Pottinger Corporate & FinancialDavid Rydell / Zoe Sanders 020 7861 3887 Notes to Editors Sportech PLC Drawing on over 80 years of experience, Sportech PLC, through its variousbusinesses, including Littlewoods Football Pools, has developed a wide-ranginggaming product portfolio which includes football pools and football games,on-line casino, poker and entertainment games including bingo. Sportech has over600,000 customers, 500,000 of whom play the football pools on a weekly basis,making the football pools business the second most popular weekly gamingactivity in the UK. Sportech is continually developing access to its gaming products through anetwork of channels to include the internet, mobile phones, telephone, post anda UK network of collectors who visit customers at their homes. Sportech PLC is listed on the London Stock Exchange (SPO). For more information,visit www.sportech-plc.co.uk This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange