Any ideas why BPTY has opened some 35% up. Not complaining as I took the plunge a couple of days. Presumably there has been some press comment somewhere?

StockMarketWire.com
bwin.party digital entertainment's gaming revenue in the three months to 30 June was in-line with its expectations and the board remains confident in the full year outlook.

The group says sports turnover was ahead of plan although sports gross win margins were below normalised levels.

Mobile/touch has continued to grow strongly: in June 2015 mobile/touch represented (31%) of total gross gaming revenue (June 2014: 23%) with sports betting at over 50% (June 2014: 37%). The group says non-core asset disposals have already realised over €36m, in-line with its target of €30m to €50m.

Chief executive Norbert Teufelberger said: "Despite challenging comparatives together with the impact of EU VAT and POC tax, we are pleased with our business performance in the first half. We have completed our new organisational set-up and streamlined our decision-making processes, significantly improving our operational performance.

"Sports volumes are ahead of last year despite the 2014 World Cup, although poor sporting results drove gross win margins lower, holding back revenue performance in the period. Casino betting volumes have also remained strong and in poker we are closing the gap on last year. Our bingo revenue was in-line with last year but our UK business now attracts the POC tax that was introduced in December 2014.

"We have made good progress on the disposal of our non-core assets with World Poker Tour, Winners2 and United Games all sold during the second quarter and we have already reached our target range of €30m to €50m of disposal proceeds. As well as generating cash, these disposals are also helping us to reduce the complexity within our business.

"Our shift to a label-led structure is delivering the operational efficiencies we anticipated and we are on course to generate cost savings of at least €15m this year.

"We remain confident about the prospects for the second half and the outlook for our business."

GVC Holdings PLC

Offer discussions with bwin.party digital entertainment plc ("bwin.party")

GVC notes today's announcement made by bwin.party and confirms that it has made a proposal to acquire all of the outstanding and to be issued share capital of bwin.party at a price of 110 pence per bwin.party share, comprised of a combination of new GVC shares and cash. GVC looks forward to working with bwin.party and its advisers with a view to securing acceptance of its proposal and, in turn, making an offer to bwin.party shareholders.

There can be no certainty that an offer for bwin.party will be made. GVC will provide a further update for shareholders as and when appropriate.

Kenneth Alexander, Chief Executive of GVC Holdings plc, said: "Any offer made by GVC for bwin.party would include part of the consideration in new GVC shares. Based on our experience with the successful Sportingbet acquisition and restructuring, we believe that the potential combination of GVC and bwin.party would result in substantial financial and operating synergies and represent an excellent opportunity for both GVC and bwin.party shareholders."
For further information:

GVC Holdings PLC
Kenneth Alexander, Chief Executive
Tel: +44 (0) 1624 652 559
Richard Cooper, Group Finance Director
www.gvc-plc.com

"888 and Bwin have announced they have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended offer, whereby 888 will pay 104.09p per share (lower than the GVC offer of 110p per share) to acquire the entire issued share capital of Bwin. Bwin shareholders will receive 39.45p in cash and 0.404 888 shares (with a mix and match facility available). Synergies are estimated to be on less than $70m (by 2018) and the acquisition is anticipated to be EPS enhancing in year one. Following today's acquisition we upgrade 888 from Sell to Hold and increase our target price to 150p (from 96p)."

reliable source, bid total cost £i.4 bn = £ 1 .17 of equity /cash b win shares are
worth ends BB

gvc shares @ 400 x .231 = 92 cash 25p =total 117p for every bwin ord as previous BB