ngakonui grass Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 Denise Coates founder and CEO of online gambling co BET365 last year recieved $642m in salary and divies. Revenue of 3billion and an increase in profit of 15%. Also owns with her family Stoke City. Can she by our TAB? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buller Rep Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 14 hours ago, ngakonui grass said: Denise Coates founder and CEO of online gambling co BET365 last year recieved $642m in salary and divies. Revenue of 3billion and an increase in profit of 15%. Also owns with her family Stoke City. Can she by our TAB? And what good will that do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hesi Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 Bet365 co-founder Denise Coates gives herself $641.7m payday 19 Dec, 2019 2:56pm 4 minutes to read Bet365 boss Denise Coates' staggering latest salary has been revealed. news.com.au By: Alexis Carey Denise Coates paid herself a whopping £323 million ($641.7m) last year – meaning her salary was more than 2000 times higher than UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's. The co-founder of online betting juggernaut Bet365 is officially Britain's best-paid boss for yet another year, according to her company's newly-released annual report. Coates took home a total of £323m in the company's financial year to March, including a base salary of £277m and more than £46m in shareholder dividends as a result of her 50 per cent ownership of the firm. The 52-year-old, who helped launch Bet365 in the early noughties, has an estimated net worth of US$12.2 billion ($18.5b), according to Forbes. That makes her richer than the prime minister of England, Richard Branson and even the Queen. Her most recent annual salary was £57m more than the previous year. The company's overall revenue also increased by 7 per cent to £3.06b and pre-tax profit soared by a fifth to £791m. According to the UK Guardian, Coates made the equivalent of A$2.48m ($2.5m) per working day in 2018 – a sum that is "9500 times the average UK salary". However, Bet365 also donated A$190m to a slew of charities including Oxfam. Who is Denise Coates? Despite her unbelievable fortune, Coates is relatively unknown in the UK and around the world. She lives a quiet life with husband Richard in Cheshire in northwest England and the couple's five children, four of which were adopted from the same family in 2014. They are believed to live in a luxurious farmhouse, and Coates is known to drive an Aston Martin with personalised licence plates. Coates, a former betting cashier who previously worked for her father's betting company, started Bet365 in 2001 in a temporary building in a carpark after graduating from Sheffield University with a degree in econometrics and buying the Bet365.com domain on eBay for £19,000. She suspected online gambling would become the next big thing – and today, along with brother John and father Peter, the family has a multibillion-dollar fortune as a result. But Coates' massive wealth has attracted its fair share of controversy. Betting Backlash The revelation of Coates' obscene pay has been slammed by members of the public, who have questioned the fairness of fat CEO salaries as everyday workers struggle to get by. Social media users took to Twitter to attack Coates' pay, describing it as "pathetic" and "sickening". The fact that Bet365's accounts were only revealed yesterday also caused some to question whether they were intentionally delayed until after the UK election, as failed candidate Jeremy Corbyn had vowed to crack down on the uber-wealthy if he took power. Luke Hildyard, a prominent critic of excessive CEO pay in the UK, told The Guardian that Coates' salary was unfair. "This looks like cynical timing, sneaked out straight after a general election campaign where excess wealth, taxes on the rich and the vast gap between those at the top and everybody else have been key issues," he told the publication. "It's important that wealth and how it's created and shared are properly debated. "But the publication of these figures seems designed to avoid scrutiny, suggesting that even Bet365 recognises that. While business success should be rewarded, such a colossal payout goes far beyond what is fair or proportionate." Others also criticised the ethics of making billions from gambling, which causes addicts and their families significant suffering. In a statement published by The Mirror, UK parents Charles and Liz Ritches, who were inspired to start anti-gambling charity Gambling With Lives following the suicide of their son Jack as a result of his gambling addiction, said Coates' pay was "upsetting". "These companies know they are peddling addictive, potentially lethal products – as independent research confirms," the statement reads. "Even (betting company) William Hill's website warns that gambling addicts are four times more likely to have suicidal thoughts than the rest of the population. This is beyond immoral." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curious Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 1 hour ago, Hesi said: "Even (betting company) William Hill's website warns that gambling addicts are four times more likely to have suicidal thoughts than the rest of the population. This is beyond immoral." This is more media bullshit. Implying that gambling causes suicidality. They are correlated not one causal of the other. Maybe suicidality leads to addictive gambling behaviour or maybe some other psychological state leads to both. This crap shouldn't be published without sensible analysis and comment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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