William Hill plc (LSE: WMH) is one of the largest bookmakers in the United Kingdom. Its headquarters are in the north London suburb of Wood Green and in Leeds, West Yorkshire. It is traded on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. The company was founded in 1934. It operates in the UK and the Republic of Ireland and offers betting by phone and over the internet as well as through its bookmaking shops. The internet section has grown fastest in recent years, although its telebetting call centres took 125,000 bets on the 2007 Grand National and its betting shops process more than 889,000 betting slips on an average day[1]. In the financial year ending 26 December 2006 it made a pre-tax profit of £292.2 million on a turnover of £894.2 million, producing a total profit of around 19 per cent at £166.8 million.[2] It expects its profits to be lower in 2007 because of the abandonment of a major upgrade to its internet betting platform.[3] In 2004 the company launched an intera
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