PartyGaming First-Quarter Sales Rise as Customer Numbers Climb

As reported by: Bloomberg:

"PartyGaming Plc, the world's largest online poker company, said first-quarter sales increased 54 percent as more gamblers made wagers on the PartyPoker Web site.

Revenue climbed to $342.6 million from $222.6 million a year earlier, the Gibraltar-based company said today in a Regulatory News Service statement. The number of new poker players rose 23 percent, and 39 percent of those customers were located outside the U.S., where Internet gambling's legal status is uncertain.

Marketing campaigns, particularly in Europe, helped to increase the number of poker players, PartyGaming said. The company also started running its first foreign-language Web sites in the quarter and in addition to English now offers PartyPoker in six languages including French and German. PartyGaming said its introduction of backgammon is "imminent," the statement shows."

http://www.bloomberg.com - 2006-04-19 04:32:23